There are not many cows on Skopelos but we spotted these two beauties in a olive grove. We took a drive over the island and spotted many broken trees and branches all over the island from the recent snowfall. A lot of people are pruning and burning the parts of the trees that broke of off but there is still a hell of a lot to do. Not everybody who owns land is on the island at the moment so a not so pleasant surprise will be waiting for them. We saw severals truck with firewood. When a tree is down you can go and cut it. Free wood.
Work on the water reservoir in Loutsa has started again. We spoke to a worker from there and he said that it will be able to hold rainwater after it is finished. We will believe it when we see it.
All in quiet in Panormos. A part of the central road was opened and work was done there for sewage and water provisions. The road need to be fixed though before the first tourists arrive.
A part of a ceiling in the elementary school in Skopelos fell down and the school was closed for a week until the ceiling was fixed and the engineers looked at the school and the various building issues there. For now a statement is given out by the engineers that the children can attend the school but in a meeting with the mayor, parents and the parent’s board it was decided that an engineer team from the province would come to the island and survey all the schools on the island. This should happen on a regular basis but is not done. Islands are the last on the list or responsibility is not taken for signing of on a survey like that.
Restaurants that are open in Skopelos are Ta Kymata/Angelos with live music on Saturday. Kyratso’s kitchen, Ampeliki. In Elios Vangelis. If anybody knows more about the restaurant situation please let us know.
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its interesting that the school has only been built for 5 years(? i think you said) but the plaster has come off the ceiling..(unless of course there was a water intrusion )surely that would be seen to be the responsibility of the persons who did its the first place.Would it be possible that some of the many mechnicos’s who live here could inspect the schools and other public buildings for such dangers.? its not difficult to spot popped plaster etc and would avoid injury to the townsfolk
Some local engineers have looked at both school buildings the older and newer. They have said that it is safe to attend school but there are other issues that need to be attended to and this is the responsibility of the municipality. The province will send a team and they will do the survey and the municipality needs to act after that. A yearly/ two yearly check up should at least be done? The municipality says they don’t have money, only for heating oil and the most necessary things!
No school has been built in Skopelos within the past five years. Give the kids helmets 🙂
By the way, Proteus will finish on 15 February and Express Skiathios will be back early June. So, for the best part of three months there will be no ferry from Volos to the Sporades. Hopefully something will be sorted. This is fact, not rumour
It is certainly a way cut the population of the Sporades.Who will want to live on an island with such fragile access .
It is becoming clear that the island administratiion has lost control We were on vacation recently the cost and inconvenience of leaving and returning to the island was significant I appreciate the financial problems ,but ignoring the increasing and serious issues of not attending to basic human rights ie freedom of movement is criminal and deserves immediate attention before it becomes beyond repair and damges the whole of the infrastrcture of the island Get control and support the needs of the people that you were employed to do