Cap'n Barefoot's guide to Greek Islands

A good way to get reviews of the beaches in the greek island is to check Cap'n Barefoot's naturist guide to greek islands.

People swimming and sun bathing with clothes on, are called "textiles", these creeps, that are destroying the possibilities for people to spend their holiday without wet and sandy swimming suits on, and get a beautiful tan without ugly swimming suit marks.

Usually naturists are very polite people that only undress and relex if they see other people are nude. To dress up and walk around watching people at a nude beach is an attitude crime. If you are offended by nudity, don't head for the nude beach at all.

My opinion is to go nude if it is a nude beach, even though textiles happen to visit the beach. Some people love wild beaches without sunbeds etc. even though they are not naturists, and they maybe they don't intend to disturb. Respect both ways is my medicine.

This is how Ios beaches are described.
I used to prefer naturist beaches, but traveling as a single woman is not a game. Especially not on deserted beaches. From nowhere lonely men show up and park themselves 1 meter away and asks for lighter etc. It's awful. Happens at Ios too, so I have quitted Kolitsani of that reason. If you go there tell these guys to leave you alone, and make sure you are in screaming distance from "normal" people or groups.

1978: Kolitsani beach 100% nude

Kolisani Beach 1978. The beach had at that time a small kiosk, serving cheese pie and birra. But the year 2004 something happened just above the beach. A beasty extremely ugly building was set up by a german man. Until then the beach had been almost unspoiled since at least 1976.

Kolisani view

From the small upper terrass at the second floor of Kolisani View hotel. The same view you had from the rooms. Stayed in this hotel 2003 and 2004. It is ten minutes walk from the village.

Down there is Kolisani beach.

Horrible building by Kolisani

Just above Kolisani beach a new awful building is set up that harms the ambience of the environment. I can't understand how the authorities could approve this. Instead they should make the owner rebuild it with something created by a good architect instead of this home made crap. The building look like a prison, not a villa, and it has small greedy windows with bars, and the feeling beeing close to it is scary. I talked to the owner, because I hade to pass his yard to reach the beach. He had bought the land, and built the house for him himself. Crazy stuff.

Kolisani beach - album

Some pictures from Kolisani beach, July 2004

Kolisani beach - 2004

View from Kolitsani view

View from the hotel room at hotel Kolisani View. The bay is Kolisani, of course.