Firopotamos, the bay with the chapel

Firopotamos is not quite a village, more a hamlet of a few syrmata and fishermen's houses around a small, sheltered bay on the north-west coast, below Plaka. A white chapel stands on the rocks at the mouth of the bay, and the water inside is calm, clear and turquoise, good for swimming and snorkelling. On the far side are the ruins of an old mining loading station. There are no hotels and only a canteen in summer, so it stays a place for a long swim and a quiet afternoon.