POROS | Lovely Greek Island an Hour From Athens
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2023
- Exploring the Greek island of Poros, just an hour ferry ride from Athens and a stone's throw from the Peloponnese peninsula on the Greek mainland.
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Why I enjoy Gabe's Videos more than other vloggers is because he enjoys where he is (you see it in his Mannerism) and second he takes us along to his adventures not just showing us this or that (like others do)but we become part of his adventure ..........Keep it up Gabe👌👌👌👌
Well said ! 🔥
He genuinely loves traveling. He’s not doing it just for a paycheck. This is the wrong niche to get into if you’re just interested in a paycheck.
Absolutely correct! 🙂🙂🙂
I agree. It's also funny to think he's been traveling and talking to himself for decades haha
@@Originalman144 He is a great person
Gabriel, it’s the little things you do consistently in your videos which I love - showing the exact location on a map at the beginning of each video, then the slow zoom in, the announcement of the date, giving us a timeline, the current ‘live’ temperature, etc. It just works really well for me and I’m sure I speak for others too. Little things, as I said.
Great stuff, keep it up dude.
Absolutely! ~Cara 😊
Wow, what a lovely island. Peaceful and so beautiful nature.
I can assure you as an Athenian Greek, it’s really beautiful,and peaceful,if you like relaxed holidays, or you have a family this is the place..From Poros you can also go to Athens, Hydra, Egina ,Agistri and Moni islands.All are very close.
@@KNIGHTTEMPLAR555 good to know 👍🤍👍 thank you
Hello Gabriel,
Have been watching all your 2023 series of videos , from Spain to Greece. So relaxing , especially Hydra , which "healed" me after a burnout, from too much work and lack of organization in 2018. Enginefree , only donkeys was literally an unbelievable experience of this island ..
Poros is very beautiful , amazing watercolors and your genuine enthusiasm makes us share the experiences as if we were right there, next to you.
I completely understand your love for Greece..gives you a feeling of freedom just islandhopping and discovering so much of its culture, history, traditions, music and breathtaking views.
Thanks for your hard work and always best wishes from crowded , hot Paris.
👋🤝🍀
Beautiful Greece 🇬🇷
You seem a bit confused...
It's not Greek or Macedonian. Macedonians were just one of the many Greek city states, Kingdoms and Democracies.
The Hellenic league consisted of Spartans, Athenians, Macedonians, Epirotes, Arcadians, Thessalians, Ionians and many more. Which were all part of the Hellenic world.
No one in the Hellenic League ever considered Macedonians as "Barbarians". They were always indistinguishable to the rest of the Greek people. All these Greek tribes had in common: Religion, Language, Mythology, Alphabet, Writing, School system, names for people (& animals), marriage rituals, ancient Gymnasiums, Traditions, Farming, Currency, Music, building style, Art, Food, etc. Greeks predominantly married only within the same Greek culture. Dress styles differentiated between each Greek tribe.
They were always conflicts/wars between Greek states. They used always phrases to "dehumanize" each other during wars (calling each other barbarians, animals etc,). But during the Olympic games every 4 years (and other Hellenic festivals) they came always together in peace (at least as long as the festivities lasted). These festivals (Olympic games, Music festivals, Theater festivals etc.) were *only* for for Greek people (non-Barbarians). And Macedonians were *always* part of it. At common external threats like the Persians, they also fought together side by side.
Interesting to learn this. Regards from Ecuador 🇪🇨
He didn't seem confused
I could almost smell the pine trees. Looks beautiful
I went to Love bay in November 2022 and it was completely empty, no umbrellas, no people, fantastic hideaway and very romantic. It was sunny and perfect. Shame I can't attach a photo of it on here but I am sure you can easily imagine why the beach got the name it has 😊
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Man,you are a legend for promoting Greece!Words cannot describe how i feel about your work!
Poros, the birthplace of mythical hero Theseus.Also, here we had the headquarters of something like the First European Union, consisting from 7 antique Greek cities (Amfiktionia tis Kalavrias) during the 7th century BC.Cheers.
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So you brought together 7 cities and suddenly became the inventor of European Union. Wow. What a success!
@@SunMoon-ft6xb Don’t be sarcastic, it’s not inventor of the E.U. just 7 cities United as one entity, like the E.U. You don’t have to be clever to understand what I say, an average intelligence can understand easily what I said. Something like the E.U. Easy.
@@KNIGHTTEMPLAR555 Of course i'm going to be sarcastic. Come on. You take an ordinary, mediocre and very common thing like merging cities together and present it like a very unique accomplishment to try to prove how you culture is so special and original and superior so that you tell the tourists these stories and they llisten like they are mesmirized and they spend all their money. It's same in Italy in Spain. It's tourist trap.
@SunMoon-ft6xb Greek history= Europe's history.We are all Greek and we are all Europeans in Europe.Sorry mate but this is the truth.
Gabriel the Macedonians were a doric people(Dorians) similar to the city states in most of the Peloponnese like Corinth Elis and Sparta
I can't get over how delicious the food looks 😍
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!
Hi Gabe, thank you so much for showing us so beautiful island. We are waiting next video. Be safe, chaos.
Οne minute you are biking in a beautiful mountain and the next you are at a site where history took place thousands of years ago. This is why. This is why Greece.
Gabe this is another beautiful island and also thank you 2 videos(1 is short) today YEH😀😀😀😀😀
If Macedonians spoke the same language , had the same gods and culture with the rest of Greeks ( and they did) then they had to be Greeks.. The fact the Phillip fought the Athenians is no strange because at the time it was very common the cities-states to fight one another
No, this logic does not follow. They were not the same people. Greek society has long been made up of an amalgamation of different ethnic groups, same as Roman, Byzantine, or Persian societies. Many groups traversed the land and islands some settling there. If you conquered a land you brought slaves and other workers back to the home base. People travelled and sometimes migrated and settled into different corners or islands for trade etc. Over time, some of those enslaved people would become free when there was a changing of the guard, death of a leader, or they procreated within the society. Classical Greece was made up of 4 ethnic groups: Dorians, Aeolians, Achaeans, and Ionians. It's not so simple, it's very complex.
@@Originalman144 He was a Macedonian which is also Greek.
Like Leonidas was Spartan and Greek.
Like Pericles was Athenian and Greek.
Like Pyrrhus was Molossian and Greek.
Like Pythagoras was Samian and Greek.
And so on…
@@Originalman144 Apparently your knowledge of history is very shallow. Greek Society was made of the same people just on their own cities/territories. Even the ancient historian Herodotus says they Macedonians were Greek Dorian people who moved a little bit up north in the Greek mainland. Alexander the Great, his father Phillip the II and king Archelaos of Macedonia competed at the Olympic games where only Greeks were allowed. The rest you write about slaves etc it does not make any sense and there are no historical sources to support that. FIY slaves in ancient Greece very rarely freed and even then they never had political rights
@@targo5707 I see what you’re saying, and I suppose my point is that the societies were an amalgamation of peoples. Just because they spoke the same language or worshiped the same gods doesn’t mean they were the same peoples. The Spartan citizens were Dorian Greeks to be specific but Helots also fought in the Spartan army but they were not considered Spartan citizens.
@@user-sn6dz2ie4k Ok Sir, to my point, I’m saying the society was not homogeneous. Do you agree?Alexander was however instrumental in conquering and pushing many of the different groups that did exist out of the land.
Going back further in history, the original inhabitants of Greece were the Pelasgians which are referred to as black or moorish peoples. The Pelasgians were replaced by the Hellenes. Homer called them (the Pelasgians) among the many tribes on Crete “noble Pelasgians.”
To say that everyone in these lands was the same people, before the reign of Alexander, is simply erroneous. There are numerous historical accounts of the various ethnicities of people on Crete, on the Peloponnesus, and throughout the Aegean.
Interestingly enough, I don't hear many cicadas. It is similar in Croatia in June, you only start hearing them in large numbers in July.
Hi Gabriel, have been following some of your trips for a few years now . I was so pleased you found Poros Island, and the other Saronics too. We'll be heading to Poros in August and cannot wait, there are some fabulous places to eat and swim and be merry, enjoy.
Gabriel we love watching your videos and look forward to watching them as soon as we notice there is a new one up 😊
never get bored of Greece vlogs, thanks Gabriel. by now i think it's safe for you to consider buying a property there (not sure how feasible that is) but it would be a good investment i believe.
It's a way to get the golden visa/permit
Lovely music at the end, as always excellent video, gorgeous Greece.
Thank you for sharing the fascinating history of Greece and Macedonia and Poseidon
Greeks was seperate back then,but they all were Greeks.Athens,Sparta,Thessaly,Thrace,Macedonia,Minoan Crete,Ionia,Thiva,Corinth...All Greeks.Speaking the same language and worship the same Gods.Alexander and his father wanted to invade Persian empire,so they needed one nation unite!Hellas.
You passed in front of a boot camp for the Greek navy during the ceremonial swearing in ceremony of the draftees. Be careful because some military installations are not happy with people taking photos or videoing inside the camp
You are the best traveler, thanks for these great videos!!!!!
I’d like to go to the temple of Poseidon when it is dark and close my eyes, and just maybe I could hear the ancients whispering to me 😊
Looking forward to this and many more Greek adventures from you, Gabriel! Have anyone said that you look like the coach of England in football? His name is Gareth Southgate.
Finally biking in the free world.
Would be cool to have your opinion about the top 5 must-visit Greek islands mate, since you're already an authoritative expert. Cheers from Lebanon!
Most likely Crete,Santorin,Rhodos,Mykonos and Samos
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@@Andrij_Kozak Oh thanks so much, Andrij 🙏🙏
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thanks masses, Gabriel 🙏🙏
The most must-visit islands are the ones that are not the overhyped ones like Mykonos and Santorini.
The landscape around that temple looks just like the mountains of Northern New Mexico! 😍
Beautiful.
Poros looks amazing!
beautiful island
Been there. Just incredible! So close to Athens! Or the port of Athens, Piraeus, by ferry!
I wish I could smell the air … I know that sounds weird haha total immersion.. I would take a small pebble from ever beach or hike 😊but I realise that’s not practical 😂
It’s another Greek island I could live on so lovely
No, not weird---I totally get that.
Love the history. Have you ever considered visiting Delos? It's a fascinating experience..
Yeah I've wanted to visit it for years. I spent ten days on Mykonos island in February 2018 but the boats weren't going to Delos at that time because it was winter.
Awesome video. Thanks Gabe.
The people you saw were conscripts for the navy. This wasn’t a ceremony, it was a rehearsal. There is a naval base in Poros, where conscripts take their basic training.
On the other side of the hill of the temple, versus Vagionia bay, my family owns land. My father sold his share to his sister, who was planning to built country houses for her three children. But a couple of years later the ancient ruins were discovered. According to Greek law her land comes under jurisdiction of the Archaeological Authority. She cannot even pick the olives there, let alone build a house…
I see, interesting.
My nephew did his service in Poros recently ❤
You missed the iconic clock tower. You can even go up there (just a few minute walk from the port) and it has a nice view as well.
So amazing! It looks almost uninhabited at the beginning then it got more people nearer to the end. Love the greenery and ruins.
Hi Gabriel, spectacular views beautiful water video when you dream of getting away this is how you imagine these trips just beautiful take me with you.
Was here in 2022, thankyou for visiting so I can see it again🌞
What a beautiful island! So green, the beaches and town look amazing too! ~Cara 😊
Nice Island!
Very nice thank you!
So awesome to see this history 👍
Love your videos and history lessons.
this is great !! good place and waiting another video. keep update friend
It's a very beautiful island Gabe. I have never been there
This is the way!!!
Lol, at 30.50 my favorite restaurant in Poros: Poseidon. Have some great memories from that place.
Enjoy
Love the song...exquisite.... the perfect audio
Cool that you routinely get away from the main harbors to check out the rest of the islands. Clearly you have many of these sites to yourself. Love seeing the olive trees as well - all those silvery pedals shimmering in the sunlight. As for Macedonians, I used to tell my students that the word used to describe their legacy - Hellenistic - can roughly be translated as 'Greek-ish.'
thank you
I've just started following you, very interesting, Greetings from Cork in Ireland
Very nice.
Gabriel ylu should write a book on your travels in Greece!😊
Nice !!
WOW !!!!TY
Thks
Nice video Gabe, the island looks great 😃👍. I much more prefer islands with Trees, although the Cycladic islands have their own charm without trees. Vagiona might be a nice place to visit 😃🤣 Those beaches looked stunning..
Which Islands have the prettiest trees? 💚🌳💚
@@LAbee333 The Ionian islands like Corfu mostly have trees on them..
When I saw that door laying there at 17:40 I started wondering what I'd need to just rehang it. The video rewind seemed to show a fairly intact roof. Nice lizard view too. Seems like a nice place to dry out after a cloudburst & rainfall. Luckily, it's easier now to get a believable forecast. Or, out of the service range & footprint the innate intuition can get grounded and be exercised there for a while. But, why is it so dry and dusty there? Are the herbivores eating up every tender green thing? No moisture is staying close to the ground, it seems.
If you could just stay around for a couple of sunrises, I'm sure some regenerative plans might emerge. There's probably a fence line or 2 nearby which could prove that point. The Ecosystem Restoration Coop movement might get some nice greek island camps going for some type of Mediterranean basin initiatives. That would surely improve their 10€/month memberships and bring more FB participants. Gabe, pls scout for some restoration likely location. Thx btw.
The search for ecosystemrestorationcommunities might reveal: " ... Long-term opportunities are structured volunteer opportunities that may involve camp building, communications, restoration or testing a business idea. Many restoration communities also welcome Master and PhD program students who want to collect data for a camp as part of their research. ... "
There are videos too of over 55 global camp projects so far. Just saying. 🌲😎🌲 Gabe, thx for your inspiring visits. 💚
The Macedonians were a Hellenic tribe. Thats why they were so simillar to Athenians and the rest greeks. So in today's terms, yes they were very much greek
I did not know about the arcaeological site on Poros, that was very interesting! Since it seems you are into it, you should absolutely visit Delos sometime. Also of course Athens comes second to none in terms of remnants from the 5th and 4th centuries BC (I wrote you a comment under another video about this). A couple of comments on that information board: Pausanias was a Greek from Anatolia, not Roman as it falsely states, but he did live during the Roman time. All of his tremendously important writings about his travels are originally in Greek. Also, there is no serious academical debate about whether Macedonians were ethnically Hellenic. It is indisputable historically. Case in point, they were allowed to compete in the Olympics, a privilege granted only to people with Greek heritage. The various tribes of the Hellenic area were frequently at war against each other. That is the case with Philipp the second of Macedon. Demosthenes the Athenian orator, the man who commit suicide in the area you were there, gave some of his most famous speeches against Philipp.
Hello Gabriel, was never on Poros but was on the Peleponese
Outstanding how Gabe is maticulus in the vids. Fantastic clips from the amazing Gabe 😃✌️
hello gabriel, i just wanted to say be careful when jumbing from cliifs/rocks into the water because the water might be shallow and you might get injured. Take care
Damn I miss going to Greece... a lot more expensive to get there since I moved to the USA... oh well time to win the lottery and retire on a small Greek island with a good Taverna to keep me fed and oiled
Considering Aristoteles and his student Alexander-the Great Macedonians but not Greek is funny.I have nothing else to say.
The Macedonians are Hellenes just like those from Sparta, Crete, Rhodos, Athenians, Ipirus, etc. At that time they were divided as States but not ever united. King Phillip united the Hellenic states. When Alexander conquered the known world he spread only Hellenism. When he conquered Persia he did it out of revenge for what the Persians had done to the Hellenes. And if you go to the Museum where King Phillip is buried, it is quite clear they spoke Hellinika/Greek and ONLY Greek. The 100 Alexandrias all over the world have Greek and local language. The Ptolemaic dynasty, with the exception of Cleopatra only spoke Greek; Cleopatra spoke Greek and many more languages. The ‘Macedonian’ language appeared after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and is clearly a Slavic Language from the Slavic Migrants to the north.
you should have stayed for at least a week in Poros to really got a feel for the place; wht do you think about the saronic islands?
or else keep up the good work!
i love Poros, youvstayed there for 3 days,why not more? how was the town,beaches,food,prices etc?
and i agree about love beach, beautiful but too crowded, but the next beach megalo neorion? and petros taverna,no people usuallt and good food
and beatiful place
THAT ONE SEEMS LIKE A DUD. 😂 🤣 😂
Gabe. Let me guess? Do you like moussaka?😂
Like your new shirt 🎽 you got from friends 😊
I did my Navy service there
Hi gabriel,did you meet up with your friends in poros?.
Macedon or Greek.
Spartan or Greek.
Theban or Greek.
Corinthian or Greek.
Thracian or Greek.
Ionian or Greek
Athenian or Greek
28:16 That building is probably from the 1700's. Google Orlov revolt.
Good to know, very interesting. 👍
it does look like parts of the san francisco bay area
I'd love to do that, but I'm just not fit enough. I can't even put my own socks on 😂
Hey Gabriel,
What's your top 5 Greek Islands so far for good beaches, Natural beauty and peace and quiet vibes?
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Allot of trees on that Island
Is there something wrong with the camera or is it a setting or edit? It seems to skip or freeze on a frame, it's most noticable at the ruins when you pan the camera.
How rich one has to be to lead lifestyle similar to yours?😃 No job, permanent chillout and travelling around according to current whim😊
We need to find a Greek island girl for Gabriel to settle with!
You sure do love those Greek salads. I’ll have to try one whenever I finally venture off to Greece. Do you think December is a good time to visit Greece? That’s probably the earliest I can make it there.
You can go to Greece in December, but be prepared for it to be totally dead. The islands pretty much empty out by mid October, other than the super popular ones like Santorini and Mykonos. But even they will be very quiet by December. I spent ten days on Mykonos in February and I pretty much had the main tourist town to myself. So if you want to explore ghost towns and be the only person at restaurants then it will be a quiet, relaxing experience as well as chilly and likely rainy. If you want to go somewhere warmer and more happening then you might look into the Canaries.
@@Alexander-bj6vj Yes, exactly, I meant where tourists would likely want to go. Of course Athens and a few of the larger cities on the islands will still be populated, but I think it's safe to say that most of the islands, especially the best ones will be very quiet, there won't be many restaurants or hotels open you will be pretty much the only tourist and not many locals either since a lot of the workers on the islands go back to Athens for the winter, because there's no work without the tourists.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos These are the ones I most like: where there aren't many restaurants open and nearly no tourists.
Poseidon is the greek equivalent of the Sumerian god Enki, one of the famous Anunnakis.
I live in California and it looks like Cali or vice versa.
Used to be a naval base of the Russian empire this island
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*Are the rocks on Poros porous?*
Or just rocky ?
The roads are definitely rocky.
The Ancient name for this island was Kalaureia, Kalavria. Poros since ancient times until today has mostly meant Passage. Like the name Bosporos, Ox Passage. It’s important to note that the English words Pore & Porous also originate from the same original Greek word: Poros 🇬🇷👍🏻
@@SpartanLeonidas1821 amazing! What started as a lame joke turned into a history lesson! Thank you.
@@iammaxhammer Hehe, it answered the Etymology of the name 😃 Which ironically (Hellenic 🇬🇷 Word Again) is related to the word Porous 💯👍🏻
Good morning Gabriel 🌞!! You will not go to Aegina ?? 🌊🏖 Aegina island it's just 30 minutes away from Poros and Piraeus !!
Nice island, I've been there twice before: ruclips.net/video/k8GvTTReOrA/видео.html
@@GabrielTravelerVideos ok my friend ! Have a Great time 🌊🏖🐟
Some people annoyed from the prices.Gays Greece isn’t in Far east, it’s in Europe.A room for two in front of the sea and sandy beach, with whole the amenities and a swimming pool,at the end of June, is only 96€.A nice meat main course, a huge salad with feta cheese, olive paste deep with fried bread and a bottle of water 24€.I think these prices very normal.
Some more budget accommodation would be nice though for the long term travellers. But the Euro has increased prices everywhere the prices you quote are OK for a week stay
For the average Greek family household, the prices this year are a bit too high for traveling. But i think they will go down soon again.
These people who are annoyed for some reason don't mind being ripped off with higher prices for much lower quality of food in their own countries.
Greek was very popular destination for holidays because prices were low. It seems they are just as expensive or even more expensive now than Germany is. 25€ for the food is not a bargain. It is ok but not exactly cheap. Same is for the hotel. Around 100,- per night not cheap at all. Maybe it is high season. But even then ….
It's cheap considering what quality of food you get in Germany and other northern European countries and charge you even more.
but you also pay for the views fortunately or unfortunately. I dont see why Greece cant have similar prices as Italy for example
1:08. Small meal for 25 EUR? I thought Greece was good value and inexpensive for food. That is 950 THB or 500 ZAR.
Hi from hot Arizona
Last month I turned on google maps just to stay alerted for radar - cops. I was surprised when the directions said to turn left at an L intersection. The road I was on had only one direction and that was to turn right, which looped back around to a main road. To the left there was a high chain fence separating about 40 feet of grass and a sidewalk running along a bigger road. Turning left would have had me smash into that fence. Fortunately it was bright daylight and like I said I was familiar with the road. If I had been new to the area, and if it had been night, google maps could have easily caused me to smash into that big chain fence that likely would have camaflauged in the dark.... morrow of the story... I was reminded to question everything and don't trust google maps just because it's a.i. generated. Apparently a.i. isn't the most intelligent upgrade after all. 😮
Read the history of the Independence of Greece 1828 - you were at Russian Bay.
Dear Gabriel , be careful of snakes ! In Greek nature , there are a lot of them !!!!