Photos: Mad Dog and Flash Princess
The ruins of Metochi Vourva
The metochi
belonged to the Patriarchal and Holy Cross Monastery
of the Dormition of the Virgin in Penteli since
1869
COUNTY
OF ANT. ATTICA MUNICIPALITY OF SPATON
PROJECT: IRRIGATION, MAINTENANCE OF THE ROAD NETWORK
AS WELL AS REMOVAL OF GARBAGE FROM THE GYPSY SETTLEMENT
The pre-run circle
The hare The Bookmaker
"I only used this much flour to lay the trail" he says to a sceptical hash circle
The bookmaker and his first check
Ahh! The delights of the countryside
We pass a farm with animal stalls
A curious cow stares at us
A tethered horse looks round at us. The don't see too many runners around here.
The bookmaker set a false trail into the bamboo thicket
Rim Job doing his Robin Hood's 'Little John with a quarterstaff' impression
A brief stop for the runners at an unusual display of fruit-bearing cactuses - planted to discourage intruders
Flash Princess
Runners pose for a group photo
Beware of the crocodile sign - to discourage intruders at this remote property
Another area of wild bamboos
Crossing a stream using the stepping stones
Flash Princess in mid-stream
Rear Entry gets a wet foot
Passing a vineyard
Now which way?
Straight rows of lettuces, etc
On olive tree plantation with straight rows - unusual
Crossing a water-filled ditch
Strawberry4Skin passes back a bamboo staff
Well caught!
Father and two sons walking through the long grass
Sign says:
TRANSIT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Well maintained roadside shrine (usually placed where someone has been killed)
The Circle
"Circle up"
The hare's down-down - The Bookmaker
Pussy Basher and Jacket Off
"How would you like my finger in your ear"
Flash Princess and Strawberry4Skin - for shortcutting
For watering the trail
Rim Job - for impersonating Little John
Visitors - Clitoria interviews them
The 4th question
Rear Entry with stand-in RA Fair Cop
Oxymoron
...with Jacket Off
The Taverna
Taverna
Eleona
37.95218, 23.86972
https://goo.gl/maps/TWQVCdFXsp3ASGah7
Take Spata-Peania road. Taverna is 1.6km after crossing Attiki Odos
Kokoretsi
Trail
Recordings
From Pussy Basher (Garmin)
From Mad Dog (Strava)
Location map
Trail from Strava .GPX file displayed on Google Earth Pro
The monastery ruins from above
Water crossing 1
Water crossing 2
MisDirections to this hash
Date: Sunday 20th November – 11am
Run: 2177 – sort of…
Hare: The Bookmaker
Venue: Metochi Vourva ruins – near Spata
On Inn: somewhere local…
MisDirections:
Get to Spata and then take the ring road as if going to Loutsa
(you need to turn at the traffic lights next to My Market)
Go straight across the traffic lights just after LIDL
Continue for another 1.1km and then turn left at the traffic lights
Take the first turning right at around 200m
Then take the next turning left after another 200m
You are now on Kiafas road.
We meet 1.6km along this road at the ruins of Metochi Vourva
GPS: 37.97124,
23.94560
PLUS
CODE: XWCW+F6X Spata Loutsa
LINK:
https://goo.gl/maps/bgKCJYTCe23qgbUN9
What
3 words: ///gold.trickling.pretzel
Typographically or cartographically challenged?
Lost??
Just plain gormless and stupid???
Call a hare: The Bookmaker 6944 224668
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