For quite quite some time now, I have tried to schedule a week long photography trip somewhere abroad each year. While on these travels I would sometimes stumble across some abandoned places, but only recently have I begun planning trips mainly focused on urbex. After a bit of research this year I settled on Greece, and I am not disappointed. A bonus, as it were, was the fact that almost none of the places I had found entailed any legal risk. Some were maybe hard to find or to get to, but once there you didn’t need to worry about police, security, or an ornery landlord chasing you off. I will admit that the riskiness of urbex does add a certain spice to the overall experience, but it was nice to not have to worry about those factors for a change. And I got to eat delicious Greek food for an entire week!
Greece had quite a few spots to choose from, and it would have been impossible to hit them all in the time I had. The itinerary that I settled on ran mainly along the west coast, but with a few inland stops as well. On this trip I was joined by my niece, who flew in from Poland and met me at the Athens airport. We jumped in our little rental SUV and set off, and our first stop wound up being a little coastal village and its abandoned railway station.
I don’t know the full story, but I believe that the entire rail line became obsolete, and as a result, you can find a bunch of old steam locomotives around this station, lurking on overgrown sidings that have almost been reclaimed by the surrounding forest. Here are what I think are my best shots from this location.
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This is the first of what I’m sure will be a bunch of posts from this trip. Still to come, among other things: shipwrecks, colorful old towns, a military installation, and so many ghost towns. Thank you for stopping by, I will have the next post up soon!
