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Hi there!
I am currently in Athens doing research for my thesis and plan to escape the city for about 3 days to a nearby island. I would like to sleep on the beach without tent if possible and during the day go hiking and/or work a bit on my thesis in a cafe or so.
Do you have any recommendations? Someboday recommended Agistri to me; what do you think?

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hi i live in Athens.I suggest you go to Aigina and ask how to go to Moni,a small island that you go by small boat(5eyro).there there is only a beach bar that closes at night and people leave for aigina.you can stay there at night and sleep wherever.there are deer and other animals free on the island also a forest.paradise...

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http://www.aeginagreece.com/aegina/pages/beaches/moni_island_beach.html

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Great, thank you for the recommendation! Do you think I need to bring my own food or will it be possible to eat at the beachbar? Any idea if the beachbar has internet if I want to work a bit? And if services (bar and boats) also go now off-season?

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Wild camping is illegal by Greek law. Some areas turn a blind eye on this, but there is a heafty fine in case law is enforced. Agistri on the Argosaronic near Athens was popular, but I just discovered this: http://www.agistrigreece.com/camping-on-agistri/

Please remember than fires on the country side are strictly forbitten on summer season (till October 31rst) too.

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this is a blind eye place..i ve been doing it years and not only sleep in the beach..i set up a tent..the boats start at about 9 or 10 in the morning and there is one every one hour.its only a 5 minute ride to perdika.in perdika you get internet and nice taverns and mini markets and everything

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you don t have to be afraid at all cause you don t intend to have a tent.sleeping on the beach is allowed everywhere and totally safe,there will be other campers too

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the bar has sandwiches and food and alcohol and everything.

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thank you for the help everyone!

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sleeping on the beach is allowed everywhere

Do you mean at this place, or anywhere in Greece? Because it certainly wasn't allowed in my student days of backpacking in Greece: sometimes we got away with it in remote locations but several times we got moved on by the police. I thought that was still the case.

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