Tiny Skiathos is a sparkling pendant drop off the damp nose of the Pelion peninsular, and is a perfect, sandy playground for families and youngsters. The south coast is lined with an almost continuous strip of golden sand kissed by calm, shallow, pale blue water, and fronted by hotels, tavernas, some private villas and excellent … Read More
A rather late posting, but better late than never…. Skopelos is home to an eclectic group of people who go a bit native there – documentary film makers, artists, the designer Marc Held, and Martin Beckett, a giant in the world of advertising photography and president of the Association of Photographers. Martin is wearing a … Read More
Part 1 Skopelos, the largest of the Sporades islands, is one of Greece’s most overlooked islands in spite of Mamma Mia being filmed there… pristine green pine forests with plane and sycamore trees give way closer to the sea to Mediterranean herbs, with fine beaches under towering cliffs, sandy crescents backed by pines, and some … Read More
Milos is different, and I really can’t believe that it has taken me so long to discover it. I am so thankful we have a house there to show you, and I am desperately looking for another one as we want to share this lovely island with you. I have one in my sights that … Read More
Women, as all Greek men know, cannot drive. When they therefore have to reverse onto the little ferry deck of the Paros-Antiparos ferry, the shortest ride in Greece, and the one that affords the deepest insights into the gender war, any good Greek sailor knows he has to shout “Left, left, LEFT, right RICHT RIGHTRIGHTRIGHTISAID, … Read More
The Five Star Greece Inspection tour hits Paros. accompanied by our new Parian colleague Dimitris, whose enormous family seems to run Paros, and is clearly the key to the island. People wave and smile as we pass by. “I am beginning to feel like the Queen” I say. Dimitris gently puts me in my place “The … Read More
Wind-stranded in Sami, the pretty port of western Kefalonia – Babis the water taxi captain who looks like a pirate out of Tintin, has said we have to wait for the sun to set and waves to subside, so 4 hours to kill before meeting guests and going to the airport for Ryanair flight … Read More
Let’s start with the bad news; the bad news is that the scheduled ferry services to Ithaca have made such losses over the last few years, that no-one wants to run the ferries, and the government is too poor to subsidise them, so getting to Ithaca by car is almost as much of an epic … Read More
The Panaghia Spiliotissa, or the Panaghia ton Vlachernon as it is properly known, is a little magical site on the hillside of a mountain on Ithaca. The path winds up through peaceful fields and smallholdings that Homer’s Laertes , the father of Odysseus whose farm is supposed to be around here, would have probably … Read More
Like a young girl who misbehaved when she was 17 and has been given funny looks and avoided ever since, Ios sits, largely avoided by “those who know”, half way between Mykonos and Santorini, connected to both, but unvisited and resigned to an unjust fate – The party scene on Milopotas beach which was … Read More
Sometimes, the prospect of inspecting villas on Mykonos is less alluring that you might think – another white house with driftwood mirrors, no bedside lights, a pool and pergola with built-in barbecue, a dark basement room masquerading as a “guest suite” and an owner telling you proudly that she or he doesn’t need a/c as … Read More
