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Dupnica:

--- Quote from: Gavlah1973 on January 08, 2014, 08:57:21 PM ---Do you reckon there was the same amount of sunbeds and more beach?!
Or is there now less beach and more sunbeds?!?!

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Gav,I'm going back 27 years and there were definitely fewer sunbeds and they were on the far side of the river not the full length of the beach. There was an elderly couple who had a few beds at the end where the path comes down from Romanza and then there was Kostas and as far I remember that was it.  But there were fewer tourists then as there weren't so many apartments and no big hotels,Nafsica and Golden Beach were the only hotels,It's difficult for relatively recent visitors to imagine it as it was then but once you got round the corner ,where Thomas Bay is now, there was practically nothing only one or two apartment blocks,Casablanca restaurant,next to Aspatsia supermarket and Sunset.

Gavlah1973:
Looking at Tonys old pics it must have been amazing to see it like that! Love the Fantasea area but it must have been so different back then

Dupnica:
Gav,that part of the village,near the Church, has hardly changed at all. The Romanza villas are new and Manthos used to keep his chickens and turkeys where Fedra Mare is now!!

Sellsy:
Great stuff Gav, sure this will bring back many memories for all on the forum, especially for non Facebook technophobes like me! Cheers.

tonyco1:
The Beach was huge about 4 times the size, and NO SUNBEDS when I first went.
Capt Nikos used to drive his Camper van onto the beach and it was the only choice for lunch snacks on the beach.
 (except the Waves Taverna.
The Waves Taverna had the only international telephone in San Stefanos and mobiles were nowhere to be seen in 1983

The only places open then (and very few apartments either), were Sunset Taverna, What is now called Barras Apartments,
Margaritas Bar / Restaurant & Mini Market, Nafsika Hotel, Manthos Taverna (- before it was extended), and Golden Beach Hotel...

and it was brilliant!!!

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