Five Star Greece was proud to join the sponsors who brought Martha Graham to Ithaca, as part of the Return to Ithaca open air festival. After a party the night before hosted at the grandest villa in Ithaca, the great day dawned wild and stormy. By nine o’clock in the evening, massive thunderhead clouds were … Read More
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Koufonisia and the Lesser Cyclades Koufonisia is really the playground of the islands; no need for a car, you can walk from one end to the other in 40 minutes easily, and if you take the coastal path, you can stop and swim in a different little beach every 50 metres, and have a drink, … Read More
My trip to Sifnos was to look at villas that Evi had seen but not me. Well, any excuse really to hire a fire – engine red, open-top jeep, head for the islands in their May magic, and delay returning to London… Sifnos is a wonderful island that really showcases the best of the Cyclades … Read More
The real problem with the Amanzoe hotel in the Argolid hills near Porto Heli, the huge elephant in the room, the glaring flaw that no-one wants to mention, is that it renders you completely incapable of dealing with the outside world, unfit for anything that has not been filtered through the prism of Aman sensibility, … Read More
So this year’s Poros Yacht show, which the international yacht brokers hit for three days on their way from the show in Genoa to the Gulet show in Marmaris, happened to fall on Greek Easter. This meant that many of the yachts that usually show here were out on charter or lying at anchor outside … Read More
” The mainland of Greece has been overrun by barbarian tribes; the Ionian Islands have been thoroughly Italianised; Greeks in Asia Minor and the islands adjacent to the coast have been swamped by Islamism; yet the Cyclades have remained ore or less as they were, thanks to their insignificance.” Thus J. Theodore Bent, Philhellene and … Read More
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Our Paros concierge, the beautiful Vangelis of the azure eyes (see previous blogpost) is very glum. He has been forced, at the cost of 70 euros per person, to take his entire office and spend the whole of this glorious Saturday afternoon in a seminar on Health and Safety in the Workplace. Poor Greece, as … Read More
Like a prisoner let out on compassionate leave for a week, I practically cried with joy when I stepped out of Eleftheriou Venizelou airport and saw the sun, blue sky and a felt a warm breeze on my cheek. (I live in London.) Athens in the spring has a unique smell of orange blossom, wisteria, … Read More
We feel very proud to have been chosen as the Greek Expert by the first ever Conde Nast Traveller Little Black Book of Experts, delivered to all the clients of Coutts Private Bank – so HM Queen Elizabeth should be getting a copy along with her morning toast…