Platia Ammos

Eleftherios Tzortzopoulos is 2nd from the left with the view of Platia Ammo behind him.

In 1958,Eleftherios Nikolaou Tzortzopoulos,our grandfather,was the local mayor who was responsible for the top Platia Ammos road.The first 300 metres or so were literally done by hand and the rest was completed with the first ever bulldozer brought to the island,specifically for this reason.The construction was by no means an easy task as Leftheris faced a lot of opposition from many locals who expressed the opinion that he was only making a road to lead to his house.In reality though Eleftherios Tzortzopoulos had a greater vision and that was the progress of the Island and of the port-village of Platia Ammos.

north of karava is platia ammos , lovely quiet village with a new seafood restraurant , and a lovely spot to spend on the beach , when it was too windy for the small ferry to dock at a agia pelagia it would come to platia ammos for the passengers to disembark ..today its one of kytheras best kept secrets , 

another beach near the north of the island near the light house before platia ammos  accessible by boat only.. this is beach is called '' kalo gero '' [ good old man ] what an ideal location for a qiute sunbake and swim ...

A very attractive 'paralia'.

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Kyria Janoula's sign in Platia Ammos

Haralambos Kritharis

Haralambos Kritharis' boat

Haralambos Kritharis

My acquaintance with Kyria Janoula goes back to summer 1962 when I, as a technical student, worked for Mr. Koksma’s World Council of Churches Team at Kythera. She and her husband were the proud owners of Ameriali in Karavas. As I was working in Diakopoulianika for the new municipality water system I was allowed to have my lunch at their place. Also in weekends when there was a party my fellow team members and I went there to dance and enjoy the wine and mezedes. One year later in August being on vacation with a friend in Karavas we were invited to the wedding of Kyria Janoula’s daughter Adriana.

After having finished my studies and my commission of the military service in The Netherlands, I returned July 1965 to Kythera to help Mr. Koksma in his WCC Team as a civil engineer. At that time there were several future projects made possible by the WCC for municipality water systems. But in order to start these projects the villages had to be surveyed first. Also at that time some strange stories went around that these surveys served a total other purpose. Anyway when early 1966 I arrived from Chora with 3 technical students to start the survey in Platia Ammos we were met by at least five ladies with brooms and sticks surrounding our car and who did not allow us to start the survey! I knew them all quite well and one of them was Kyria Janoula. I did my very best to talk them out of their wrong idea about the survey but we had to return to Chora with nothing achieved.

Only some years ago she did tell me, slightly embarrassed, that she did not feel happy having been present at that occasion but that she was pressed more or less by the other ladies to cooperate with them! And only later on they had understood that they were mistaken.

She was always very friendly and whenever my wife and I were at Kythera, we visited her, drank large cups of coffee and ate a lot of cookies.

At one of our visits to Kythira in 2004 we heard she was in the hospital in Potamos. We met her daughter, who had come over from Australia and she told us that the doctors thought her terminally ill. With dread we went to see Kyria Janoula in her hospital bed. She was glad to see us and to us she did not seem terribly ill at all.

Early 2005 we went to her house, fearing she might not be there anymore. How happy we were to see her alive! With a laughing face she told us that the doctors had diagnosed her all wrong.

When the charter from Holland started bringing Dutch tourists to Platia Ammos she started to fix miniatures on the wall of her porch along the road and many passer’s-by made pictures of her collection.

Kyria Janoula wrote a short story about the varka (rowing boat) her father free of charge used to ferry people from Platia Ammos to the Peloponnese and even Crete. This was at the end of WW II. Would anybody of these people, Greek and foreign, privates and or officers still be alive?

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Haralambos Kritharis

The rowing boat is already for many years lying on the beach of Platia Ammos just opposite her house and not protected for the weather influence of summer and winter. She would very much like the boat to have a more permanent protection and to stay at this place on the beach.

When we saw her last October 2008 she read this story to me. I got myself a picture of her father’s tombstone and of the boat and her explanatory text that stands with the boat.
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Kyria Janoula's Father Haralambos Kritharis' Gravestone

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Kyria Janoula's Father Haralambos Kritharis' boat

Unfortunately there was a recent court order which made impossible to further execute this idea.
In December 2008, I phoned a friend in Karavas and I was informed that the dimarchos was going to take some favourable action. However nothing was yet achieved in 2009 and 2010.

Kyria Janoula from Platia Ammos passed away end of 2009. She was 90 years of age when she fell and broke her hip, she recovered, but shortly after coming home from the hospital she died of heart failure.
What will happen now with her dearest wish?

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This is to inform everyone who had the privilege to have known and loved my father, Nickoloas E. Tzortopoulos born Karavas 1939, that he has lost his battle of the past one and a half years, to pancreatic cancer. Nick has left behind his loving wife of 51 years Patricia, his 6 children (he had fathered 7 children, but lost Athens, his second daughter in June 2007 they are now buried side by side in the cemetery of Karavas ) Angela the first born, Leone, Sophia, Rose, Lucky, George the youngest and a long string of grand children and great grand children of which are living in Australia, Greece and Denmark. At a tender age of just 12 years old, Nick was sent to a foreign country, that country being Australia, he did not know the language and vaguely knew his uncle and aunty to whom he would be living and working with for the next many years. Mean while Nick met Patricia, fell in love and started a family never giving up with the dream of one day returning home to Kythera, he is in fact one of the few that did make the dream come true in June of 1978. Nick was a kind, generous and loving person and has left an impression on all those who have been fortunate enough to have met him. He has helped many people in his life, and always had time to give a helping hand and it came from deep within his heart. Nick was a hard working man, he was not a materialistic man; the simple things in life are what counted to him. He will be deeply missed, Kythera, Platia Ammos will never be the same without him. Nick, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a friend - you live on within us all - may you rest in peace. Your loving family. [[picture:"Scanned at 01-11-2009 18-28.jpg" ID:16886]]

Captain Nick the Greek

Captain Nick

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This view it to the north.

The mainland is clearly visible.

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an 8.3 stremma block of land high above Platia Ammos.

This view it to the east.

This superb block is for ***SALE***

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Contact

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Waterfront Land for sale , approximately 975 square meters 2 lands in one in Platia Ammo, next door to Minas Taverna and views to Neapoli. Ideal for development of apartments or bungalows. Please contact George Megalokonomos PO BOX 470 Narellan NSW Sydney Australia Tel 0477991989. [[picture:"Platia Ammo.gif" ID:20976]] HOT SALE. Update 31/05/2014

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Satellite Picture of the North

great day out at platia ammos with a great beach ,clear waters and great restraunts.

the northern village of platia ammos with little fish taverns with great ocean views and growing bigger each year with new hotels is now a popular village to enjoy your summer holiday.

In 1966, while working on Kythera in a development team under the instruction of George Koksma, we were sent to survey Platia Ammos in order to be able to work out plans for the placement of a water supply and the ensuing water works within the village. When we arrived in the morning however, a surprise awaited us. All the women of the village were gathered in waiting for us, and as soon as we appeared they charged us with long poles and gardening tools, crying: You’ll do no surveys here! We had no choice but to retreat, and we were even more shocked to find that some of the women were our personal friends, yet they stood against us in defiance!
Years later we talked with one of those women, and remembering the incident asked her what had happened. She explained that a water supply had never managed to be laid on in the village after that, and the reason for the women’s reaction had been misplaced rumours about the survey that had at the time been going on in Agia Pelagia, in order that roads might be built there. The people of Platia Ammos had wrongly assumed that our survey in their village was also to do with roads, roads we intended to build through their property!
As for our friend, she had been forced by the other women against her own better judgement, to join them in their stand against us!

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platia ammos north of the island for a great swim and fantastic seafood restaurants with super views.

The fishing village of Platia Ammos with its fantastic fish restaurants.

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