Transportation
When I was a child, my grandmother used to say ‘‘life is hard in Molivos my son, everything has to be done with the hands but more so with the feet’’ and she wasn’t wrong at all. The cobblestones are not accessible to vehicles and whether you like it or not, you have to walk to go to the bakery, the grocery store, the pharmacy. Even if you feel like going for a walk, your legs are the best "vehicle". This is often a curse but also a blessing.
Even today, in the mornings, you will hear the peddlers or itinerant greengrocers carrying their wares on the cobbled streets with their donkeys. You will hear the horses' hooves rattling on the stones to collect the waste outside the houses where the garbage trucks cannot access. You will see the constructors carrying their materials with mules or with their own hands.
The fishermen, greengrocers and builders of Molivos have ‘plowed’ the cobblestoned alleys with their feet countless times in order to provide their services to the residents of the village.
As a child there were hundreds of times I caught myself grumbling uphill especially after an exhausting day at the sea. On the way I would stop several times to greet and chat with friends, to buy the day's loaf from the bakery or simply explore the houses, the yards, the gardens and wander myself through the cobblestoned alleys.
Now after all these years, I still find the uphill tiring but at the same time interesting because on the way home, I can stop for tsipouro-meze (traditional distillate of wine served with small plates of delicacies) in Platanos square where the big sycamore tree is, while chatting with friends or passersby. Either way let's don't forget that this kind of walking (uphill) is a good exercise no matter how old you are, as long as you don't have other health problems of course. 
Even today, touring within the village is not possible by car, except from the market road and that only in the morning hours when the several suppliers need to service the shops. Traffic on the straight (main) road that connects the entrance of the village to the port is allowed from morning until early afternoon and this is to avoid pedestrian and vehicle congestion. A good solution is the use of an electric or conventional bicycle or the use of a small motorcycle for daily needs and short trips.
For car owners, however, a free parking space is available at the entrance of the village, around the area of the primary school. Walking from there to almost all parts of the village is ten to fifteen minutes, except the castle which is accessible by any vehicle. Finally, at the entrance of the village, there is a departure point for city buses and a taxi stand connecting Molivos with the whole island of Lesvos.
Photos by George Seretis