Greek Real Estate received a welcome boost yesterday as 6 of the Echinades islands off Ithaca, in the Ionian sea, were sold to the Emir of Qatar. The ex- husband of a cousin of mine was one of the owners, so congratulations to him, and I was pleased to read the very forthright comments from … Read More
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No excuse now not to join the cognoscenti and hipsters who have been enjoying their private Koufonisia for years, and basking in its inacccessibility. We are very glad to see that next summer, from 17th June to the 15th September, there will be a fast Superjet boat everyday, from Mykonos to Koufonisi (except Sunday), from … Read More
I can do no better than share with you this beautiful greeting I was sent from a young man in Northern Ethiopia, that topsy turvy country of miracles, famine, and rock-hewn churches: It puts our “Season’s greetings” and Santa Claus pictures to shame. Dear my beloved family, How are you and the Christmas season in … Read More
The fabulous Serge Dive’s PURE Life Travel fair is harder to get into than the jeans you had when you were 18, but oh, once you are in…… Regular readers of this blog will know what I had to do to get the zip up… (just type PURE in the search function). I have … Read More
We now know that it is a myth that Eskimos have 25 words for snow, but it is true that Greeks have about 25 words for noisy fun/merrymaking/fuss/chaos/milling about and general liveliness. Fassaria is one of these words with connotations of annoyance. Vavoura is one that indicates lots of noisy people having a good time. … Read More
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I am in Athens at the moment, great, good-humoured uproar as Central Athens was closed off and cleared, Beijing style, for Angela Merkels’s visit – funny news coverage too – flag-waving lefty ranting hysterically “Suppose I say today I feel like a nice walk through Plaka with my friends to see the Acropolis, which is … Read More
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Dante, in his “Inferno”, wrote that there is no greater pain than remembering times of joy in times of sorrow – the opposite is also true, there is no greater joy than thinking of Northern Europe’s autumn gales and dead leaves while strolling through the leafy streets of Kolonaki in Athens, in a balmy 30 … Read More
Whoever as a child read Mary Renault’s fabulous historical books “The King must die” and “The Bull from the Sea”, about Theseus, the gallant young Athenian bull-leapers, King Minos, poor mad Ariadne, and tragic Hippolytus, set in Minoan Crete, will love the fact that Red Bull are doing their leaping on Santorini this year, with the … Read More
A very elegant and blue-blooded client of ours, seated next to me at a dinner, whispered in my ear that he had been spending his midnight hours secretly at his computer looking at our website – the beautiful pictures, the descriptions of islands and islanders, landscapes and food, and above all the blues of the sea … Read More
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I am glad I studied Philosophy – it has so many practical applications. For example, I am frequently asked by clients who have booked a villa what the address of their villa is, as they do not believe/like/trust our rather boring villa names – “Spetses1E” for example. “But what is the villa really called” they … Read More
One of our most successful holidays this summer has been a package of boat and villa. Whether you are an adventurous, adrenaline-seeking couple who can’t decide between a hidden retreat on a remote bay, and a sleek and adrenaline fueled racing toy like a Riva, you can take both, and alternate the atmosphere of an authentic, not … Read More