Ithaca, while being undoubtedly the loveliest island in the Mediterranean, has always had shocking food by Greek standards. Now there is a reason for foodies to make the trip there – Penelope’s is an old waterside taverna in the cute village of Frikes The somewhat corpulent ex -mayor of the island has given up politics … Read More
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“We don’t call them pigeons, we call them “Twenty-twoooos,” because that is what their call sounds like,” said the old lady who runs Vangelis, one of the two tavernas in the main piazza in Chora, which turns into one large, elegant, open-air drawing room in August – Patmos is home to six princes, at least 10 counts, 7 … Read More
I can’t help it – I just love Flying Dolphins, those long tubular hydrofoils that skitter from island to island delivering packages, passengers and news and are a real life-line for the remoter islands. Patmos now has two, one from Samos and one from Kos, both islands with international airports, so Patmos is much easier … Read More
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I met Vangelis our new concierge for Antiparos; a charming young man with blue eyes in a brown face, and the longest eyelashes I have ever seen, so it was very hard to focus on what he was saying – couldn’t make up my mind if that was a good thing or a bad thing in … Read More
I urge you to discover Tinos for yourselves. My 24 year old daughter who is accompanying me on this trip, so far has only really seen the point of Mykonos and seems to have an in-built homing device programmed for Le Caprice; Now her plan is to buy a house on Tinos and go to Mykonos … Read More
Mykonos of course pays no attention to general European malaise as it knows it will as usual, be full and buzzing all season . To celebrate summer 2012, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Enny Monaco have opened new and beautiful boutiques on Matogianni, so shopping on a Greek island has never been better.
6th – 8thMay Poros Yacht Show. The hot little Saronic Gulf island of Poros does not have quite the same ring to it as Monte Carlo, and yet, with the 40 or so yachts lined up on the jetty, ranging from 50+metre super yachts with gleaming sides, forests of satellites and radars above, deep pile … Read More
Time to leave England and the wettest drought on record, the patter of rain, the sliding on mud and squelching through puddles, the over-flowing gutters and leaking roofs, the turning on all the lights at midday, gas company correspondence and the Leveson enquiry. It is time to go Island Hopping. Time to dry off, lighten up, blink in … Read More
The tiny island of Oxia, where we used to head to for overnight fishing trips from Ithaca as children, and in whose emerald green waters we used to snorkel, has been sold to Qataris for 5 million euros. It will have the Onassis island of Skorpios as a neighbour, Homeric Ithaca, the Gulf of Actium and and … Read More
I was asked today by the highly intellectual and charming Serge Dive who runs the Pure Life Travel fair what tour or package or part of our activity was the one that offered our clients the purest essence of Greece. I thought for a minute and then said “We don’t offer any at all. Greece can’t … Read More
I asked our sweet, clever and beautiful owner of fabulous Villa Santorini 1V for a list of her personal favorite things to do that she could suggest to guests staying at her house, and this is what she sent: Dear Ileana, there are so many things to do on Santorini and some of them (our … Read More