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1923 – Friends of Mount Athos (FoMA) clearing the footpaths
The Friends of Mount Athos are committed to the ongoing project of clearing, restoring and maintaining the old Athonite footpaths, many of them stone-paved (kaldirimi) tracks for transporting goods by mule and dating from late Byzantine times. The project was … Continue reading
1796 – interview with John Arnell, founder of FoMA’s foothpath project
Click on the following link to see the Pemptousia interview in Vatopedi with John Arnell, who recounts about the history of the foothpath project and how he met Prince Charles twice (who even helped clearing the paths, who has a picture of this??).Koutloumousiou, … Continue reading
1794 – two new Athos maps – a review
Yesterday I received two recently published Athos maps by Filathonites. The maker is Peter Howorth from New Zealand. The map is also compiled by Roland Baetens from Belgium, a FoMA footpaths specialist and Dimitris Bakalis from Greece. John Arnell of FoMA … Continue reading
1524 – hike Bogoroditsa – Vatopedi / Athonias
In the late afternoon I had to walk back from Bogoroditsa to Vatopedi: most of the time I could walk over monopati’s, but also over dirt roads. The distance is 5.34 km and it took me 56 minutes, with a totall … Continue reading
Posted in 02 Vatopedi, Bogoroditsa/Xylourgou, trip 2013, walking
Tagged aqueduct, FoMA, monopati
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