Greece

You can stand on the seafront in Kos Town, look across a thin stretch of Aegean,…

The boat slid into a slot in the limestone you would not believe was wide enough….

About twenty-five nautical miles out of Mandraki, the speedboat punches through a long Aegean swell and…

The British woman in front of me stepped into one of the empty stone houses on…

The boat rounds the cape and the colour of the water just stops making sense. One…

Anchored about 200m off Red Beach, the deck grill is going. Chicken skewers smoking, the music…

Here is the part most visitors miss when they pose for the caldera shot. The thing…

Halfway between Aegina and Poros, on the open deck of a Saronic Gulf day-boat, the lunch…

It’s the smoke from the souvlaki spits in Psyrri at lunchtime that gets you first. A…

Do you actually need a hop-on hop-off bus in Athens? It’s a fair question. The Athens…

Most travellers I know booked Delphi the same way: they saw “day trip from Athens” on…

My friend Marta still talks about her first sight of Meteora. The bus had been climbing…

The bus pulls up at the cliff edge and the white columns of the Temple of…

You start the climb at the gate, and within ten minutes the marble underfoot has changed…

Ask ten people queueing for the Acropolis what their ticket covers and most will say one…