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Island-Hopping by Bike and Boat in Greece and Albania

Albania · 8 days

The boat-and-bike format is the defining feature. On the Saronic route you set sail from the port of Athens on a three-masted motor sailer, the Thalassa, which acts as a floating hotel while you cycle the north-eastern Peloponnese and call at Poros, Spetses and Aegina. On the Ionian route the boat is the Panagiota, an …

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Island-Hopping by Bike and Boat in Greece and Albania

Island-Hopping by Bike and Boat in Greece and Albania

Albania · 8 days

The boat-and-bike format is the defining feature. On the Saronic route you set sail from the port of Athens on a three-masted motor sailer, the Thalassa, which acts as a floating hotel while you cycle the north-eastern Peloponnese and call at Poros, Spetses and Aegina. On the Ionian route the boat is the Panagiota, an eight-day circuit linking Corfu, Kefalonia, Paxos and Ithaca plus the coast around Syvota and Parga. You wake on the water, ride ashore, and rejoin the boat later.

For a land-based week, the Kefalonia tour covers the largest of the Ionian Islands over eight days, with sea views on some stretches and hilly terrain on others, passing vineyards and steep cliffs. The Albania tour is the most varied of the set: beaches, snow-capped peaks, villages and Lake Ohrid, described by the operator as both varied and challenging.

Greece and Albania share a mild Mediterranean climate with long hours of sunshine, which is why the season runs on and around the bike. The Greek routes lean on the Ionian and Saronic islands and the Peloponnese peninsula; the Albanian route heads north of the Greek border into country the operator calls still relatively untouched by tourists.

The page does not name individual guides, give day-by-day timings or list daily distances, so those details would need confirming with the operator before booking. What it does make clear is that these are guided tours — the Saronic boat-and-bike week is explicitly described as guided — with the boat crew and a set itinerary doing the organising.

What's included

- Guided cycling as described for each tour - Overnight accommodation aboard the motor sailer on the boat-and-bike tours (Thalassa on the Saronic route, Panagiota on the Ionian route)

What's not included

- Travel to and from the start point - Bike hire, unless confirmed by the operator - Travel insurance - Personal expenses - Anything not confirmed in writing by the operator

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