Golfo de Corinto :: Comparisson reports

“The last building in the small group of houses near the baths […] is the small, square and old little Ayios Andonis Church. […] Behind [the stream] we find a very pretty house built by the Austrian Lloyd shipping company when it still maintained the route from the Corinthian Gulf towards Kalamaki. A Greek agency bought the house and now uses it when the mail steamship can’t anchor in Neo-Korinth ( Nea Corinth or “New Corinth”) due to bad weather. […] Behind the house, which still bears the initials A.L. (Austrian Lloyd) is a spring next to some rose daphnes.”

“On the beach near the fountain is a lambie, where they prepare the resin. Once the resin is melted, it’s placed within wood molds. There’s a lot of activity along all of Loutraki’s beach. It’s a pleasure to watch the fishermen when they near the shore on their picturesque and small, 14-oar boats, and the tanned boys, seemingly made of bronze, stretching out the drag nets on the beach. They’re normally companies of fishermen, commandeered by a loud boss with a powerful voice. They are from all of Greece. Some don red Greek hats or half-Turkish ones, with pretty clothes. They get along marvelously. In no other place have I seen so much peace and harmony than among these companies of fishermen or, I could possibly call, families of fishermen.”

[ Loutraki = the best place in the entire Corinthian Gulf in which to anchor, p. 147; it was also known as Thermae due to its hot thermal spring.]