Neorio and the coves of the west

West of town the coast road follows the strait past the Naval Training Centre to Neorio, a bay of tavernas, small hotels and sunbeds facing the green mainland. Beyond it, the road runs on through the pines to Love Bay, a tiny cove of green water with trees to the shore, and ends at Russian Bay, where the stone storehouses of a 19th-century Russian naval station stand roofless by the sea. The name Neorio means a dockyard, a memory of the naval base Kapodistrias set up in this bay in the 1820s.