The train was wonderful, I really regret not using it more. The day trips to Preveli, and to the gorge were great, going oh so slow, able to smell all the aromas of Greece (does Mythos smell?), annoying all the traffic trying to overtake etc. We discovered Stelios taverna in Lefkogia thanks to a lunch stop on a train day trip. Alianthos ran the train, and I believe it did not pay its way, so much so that on one Sunday mornings normal trip to Souda, we advised the driver that we wanted to return on the 12.30 train, got to the train stop in time for 12.30, and were picked up by the train driver in his car as the owners told him the train was not busy, and the owners could save money by using his car for us!
We also go to Petra and Anaxos on Lesvos, and they started a mini train there 2 years ago, running along from Anaxos, through Petra to Molyvos and the castle, and it is a roaring success, much to the annoyance of the taxi drivers. Whenever we went to get the train it was packed, and I assume it will be there this year, but we are off to Kalamata in June and Plakias in October, so Lesvos will have to wait until 2017, by which time I suspect my supplies of Ouzo will be running dangerously low.
