Bus in Paleo Trikeri

Η Diavlos Tavern is located on the only inhabited island of Pagasitikos, the Old Trikeri - Kykynithos its ancient name - in the southernmost part of its peninsula Pelion, in the mouth of the Pagasitic gulf. Just before you reach the isolated Trikeri that dominates the top of a hill, the village that just fifty years ago was connected to the mainland, you turn right and descend to the coastal location Horseman. There you park in the outdoor parking of a tavern and from the small pier you take a sea taxi that in five minutes leads you to the island of Trikeri.

The information I had about island of Paleo Trikeri were clear. "To spend the night in the monastery of Panagia and eat in Diavlos, the tavern of Trimis, one of the two that exist on the pier." We tied to the pier, in the picturesque green port of the settlement, some thirty houses. We visited the impressive monastery after crossing the olive grove of the island, 15 minutes walk, and overnight. Its history and beauty will be described in the special article "The monastery of Panagia in Trikeri".

The next day in Diavlos, until the appetizers come, o Nikos Trimis he told us his story:

«I was born in 1944 in Trikeri. I was five or six years old when women were brought in slippers (especially open amphibians), exiled to the monastery of Panagia. The bookcases opened and you saw young girls in a horrible state going to the tents around the monastery. I remember as a child the voices from the torture in cell 32 which was the detention center. This whole sad and inhuman story lasted from 1948 to 1953. I went to America in a boat, did business, got married, had 2 children and in 1979 I returned to Trikeri, and with my property I built a 27-room hotel with a restaurant bar in the back side of the island. I remember I gave 5 million drachmas to bring electricity to the island. The hotel worked for 23 years but I lost it, from the banks, wild stories.

From 2000 I took Gerogiannis's cafe in the port, I fixed it Bus, and I continue my 45-year history on the island. Older than 80.000 olive trees, we extracted a lot of oil in our two olive mills. Now they are closed and we are sending very few olives to Milina. We used to have a thousand sheep and now by force fifty. Fortunately there are about fifty foreigners, English-Germans who have houses on the island and give life. In the summers we have many visitors from boats moored in the calm waters of the strait, and those who come from opposite to stay in the 100 rooms available for rent, I also have five.»

The verandas that Mr. Nikos has on the sea are decorated with flowers, covered with shady canopies and it is a pleasure to admire the tranquility of the bay.

The menu at Taverna Diavlos is too big to satisfy all the tastes of those arriving on the island, I counted over 60 dishes.

For tsipouro appetizers anchovies, smoked mackerel, smoked herring, cocktail shrimp, saganaki shrimp, marinated anchovies, octopus salad, octopus vinegar and roast.

From appetizer zucchini korfades, vlita, political salad, pickled eggplant, zucchini meatballs, tomato meatballs, saganaki eggplant, dolmadakia, fava, eggplant roll meatballs, onion pies.

Η Greek cuisine represented by the classic moussakades, pastitsia, cabbage stuffing, goat braised, chicken lemonade, pork mustard stuffed, while the seafood they start with the humble fried anchovies, the fried sardines, the fresh grilled swordfish and reach the lobster spaghetti and the crayfish spaghetti. Of course they are also served day fish - when they exist - and in rotisserie Some meats are also cooked (ribs, steaks, souvlaki).

«I have 45 years on the island so many friends from all over the world, that I can not not satisfy their tastes", He tells us, smiling next to Roula, who is his right hand in the store.