Greece: E4 European Long Distance Trail in the Verno mountains from Florina to Amindeo

This is the route I hiked in September 2018 between the towns of Florina and Amindeo following the E4 European Long Distance Trail. It is based on GPS tracks I downloaded from sites such as Traildino.com but these contain gaps where you are left to make your own route, and in one place the path indicated by the downloaded GPS tracks is overgrown and impenetrable.

Leaving Florina, the route crosses the Verno mountains. There are two isolated churches on the way up into the mountains. After walking through beech woods along a ridge you drop down into a valley near the village of Drosopigi. I saw a wild tortoise on my way down. There is another church and old cemetery as you climb out of this valley, above the cemetery the original E4 path has become overgrown and the current GPS track follows dirt roads instead.

The highlight for me were some bear footprints that I found on the route. There is a bear sanctuary at Nimfeo run by a charity where you can get much more information on wild bears in the area as well as see some of the bears that have been rescued from various places. Nimfeo itself is a picturesque, stone built village high in the mountains and I can recommend Guesthouse Enterne. After Nimfeo there are more beech woods and a descent onto the plains where a road section takes you to the town of Amindeo.

More details on johnpone4greece.blogspot.com.
A GPS file of the next section of the E4 can be downloaded from https://www.wikiloc.com/hiking-trails/greece-e4-european-long-distance-trail-from-amindeo-to-mikri-santa-29315156

For my complete trek on the E4 across Europe read my book "Six Pairs of Boots: Spain to Cyprus on the E4 Trail" by John Pucknell available from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, the Bookdepository.com, lehmanns.de, bookspot.nl, and other good online bookstores.