Gialova in Messinia is a small seaside settlement with a lovely sandy beach and two streets with all the businesses that you might desire during your vacation. Traditional taverns, modern restaurants, local products and coffee shops, they are all crammed into a few square meters of coastline. A few minutes are more than enough to see everything but you most probably would not want to leave, once you get there :)
This little place is gifted with a wonderful natural scenery on the one hand and neighbouring with one of the most luxury and huge hotels in Greece on the other, that skyrocketed the value of the land and of course, the prices :)
So I wouldn't recommend it for low budget vacation but it is definitely worth it if you can afford it (or if you have ways to keep your expenses low even in overpriced places).
The name is probably coming from the mixture of a Greek and a Turkish word but I have also read that "jalova" means "barren" in Serbian. Is that correct 
Have you met a shy chef? I haven't. They all seem to be very eager to show off their work and themselves :)
Actually (if I may invent a new word) I would call this place as a beach-mall :)
I hope it makes sense, like a shopping mall on the beach! You swim, go for a coffee under the trees of the coffee shop, swim some more, go grab a bite and so on all day long. Isn't that great?
And since everything here has a price, this post goes to #MarketFriday, initiated by 
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