We had planned to head up to Parga today, but the weather was extraordinary blustery and I haven’t been feeling great, so we decided to take a more local drive and see what we could see from the mainland.
(it was unlikely that I was going to get any good drone footage either way)
We drove across the bridge and down to Plagia, which has a castle up on a hill which we will go back and explore later, as well as a very small beach that points back towards the island. Most importantly, it’s home to some wild hogs that I absolutely must just put the video up here:
(they just tore that yard up, although I suspect the area is mostly abandoned)
Leaving Plagia, we ran into some skinny roads and abandoned ruins that looked pretty familiar — we had driven through them the very first day when we had gotten put off on tiny roads because the main road from the highway to Lefkada was closed (or backed up) for construction. This is “Old Plagia,” a village of old stone buildings that the internet claims was finally completely abandoned in the 60s after an earthquake, but still showed some minor signs of life — water storage tanks, along with a couple old guys and a pickup truck. Population: 2. Another instance where there more cows than people. (Yeah, at least seven or eight.) The town has two churches and a fountain that are abandoned but still intact, and that might make for a future exploration as well.
We continued down the coast to Palairos which looked to have a nice little seaside village along the Med, with a nice little marina (and maybe an Indian restaurant), and then to Mytikas, before turning back towards home and a cozy dinner as the wind continued to shake the trees.
It is nice to see more of the local landscapes, and the road all the way down snaked along the coast, looking out to Lefkada and some of the other nearby islands like Meganisi and Scorpios (the Onassis island).