Kon Hans Traveler

Narrow alleys, houses with vivid colors, smells from the famous traditional kitchen of Epirus with the lake as a unique background by Kon Hans View of the lake The town of Ioannina (aprox. 150,000 habitants) has two skies; one up above, with colorful travelling clouds and one down below, deep in the humid embrace of the big lake. The tall mountains all around constitute the earthly and imposing frame of this beautiful canvas painted with melancholy, with Mitsikeli Mountain easily distinguishable, a faithful giant companion in the horizon of the town. Fall and spring are the two best seasons for visiting and admiring this unique town. Golden-red, with the premature breeze of the bloomed nature, the town acquires a particular beauty, a beauty that many have praised and continue to do when they stand opposite from the  AslanPasha Mosque   and see its emblematic tower, tightly embraced from the evergreen plane trees, dancing on the surface of the lake. The lake

Greece: The different faces of Patmos Kon Hans A poetic path of self-awareness and discovery in the internal character of the island View of the Chora   (foto by K.H.) Cold waters, beautiful pebbled beaches, salt cedars that offer small oases of shade, creeks that compose the laced coastline of Patmos as it’s seen from above, from the awe-inspiring and mystic Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, which throws over the island the mythical veil of the Apocalypse. And indeed, that Monastery is the first thing you see after your long journey to Patmos; illuminated up there in the Chora (main settlement of the island) as if suspended in the middle of the sky, seems promising enough  to make you forget the fatigue of the eight hour trip in the ferry from Piraeus. The Holy Island of Patmos with its religious and devotional aura that accompanies it and appears to be emanating from its world known cave, -where St. John conceived the dark forms of the Apocalypse-, and th