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Global Cafe
BAR
(Ioannidi; 8.30am-late; )
Chiming with the sound of youths playing backgammon,
this courtyard bar is fresh, with stone walls, canvas sail canopies, shabby chic furniture
and an easy soundtrack. Read, work, drink a beer, fruit juice or cocktail, and then grab a
sandwich.
Entertainment
Orfeas
CINEMA
(
www.cine-orfeas.gr
;
Plateia Eleftherias; tickets adult/child €7/5; )
If you're suffering movie
withdrawal, this cinema shows English-speaking blockbusters with Greek subtitles along
with some local flicks. There are three shows per day, at 5pm, 7.30pm and 10pm, the
earliest of which is usually a kids' film. In high summer their open-air cinema is open.
Shopping
For high-street-style shops head to the eastern end of Ioannidi and the pedestrian streets
bazaar where you can buy anything from herbs, fresh cherries, olive oil and indigenous
honey to mythological curios and Kalymnian sponges.
News Stand
BOOKS
( 22420 30110; Riga Fereou 2)
Sells foreign-language newspapers and publications, as
well as guides to Kos.
Information
EMERGENCY
Police
( 22420 22222; Eparhio Bldg, Akti Koundourioti)
Shares the Municipality Building
with the tourist police.
Port Police
(cnr Akti Koundourioti & Megalou Alexandrou)
Tourist Police
(
22420 22444)
