We extended twice - so we stayed there for nearly one week. The island is located at the extreme south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese, separated from the mainland only by a 500m wide channel. One of the safest harbours in Greece, it is said - although it is not an enclosed harbour at all: You lie on a 2km long pier, opposite the mainland, but protected by it. Here we weathered the Medicane, which had raged violently on the Ionian Islands, but which arrived here "only" as strong wind and cloudburst.
In the harbour there is always a lot going on, of course, also because the fast ferry from Athens arrives here and there are many small taxi boats between the mainland and the island. Sailing boats and motor boats also anchor in the middle of the harbour.
Directly at the pier the town of Poros stretches along, one tavern at the other, inside small Lines. And the town is grandiosely built up along the slope, winding steep alleys, stairs, passages - you don't need to ban Cars here, no car can get up here anyway. At the top there is a blue and weite clocktower, from which you have a wonderful view over the city, the harbour and various bays. There are many anchor bays here, Love Bay, Russian Bay (here the Russian Tsar built a naval base, of which a ruin still stands) and many others.
In a long walk along the shore with many views of the bays and the surrounding islands you can reach the "Monastery of the life-giving spring", situated on a hill above the "Monastery Bay", with dense forest and in front of it overgrown with many olive trees towards the beach.
Halfway up between the winding alleys and corridors there are also restaurants, not only at the harbour. Here we ate something very special: snails! Much smaller than the snails we know from France, a little spicier in taste, with an incredible sauce of tomatoes, garlic, wine, juniper and cinnamon.
Sometimes we had the feeling that if we were not careful, we would not get out of here at all.
