HERE AND THERE

And back to Athens, when we started and ended our Greek island journey. We spent our final couple of days in Piraeus, the port area of...

Still in the eastern Aegean Sea, and travelling north-east from Rhodes, we visited Bodrum in Turkey. According to our guide Demir, Bodrum...

The island of Rhodes is the biggest island in the Dodecanese group of islands. It's much closer to Turkey than to mainland Greece. We...

Up in the hills, away from Heraklion, an enterprising hotelier has taken a traditional Cretan village and turned it into a hotel/function...

In Greek mythology, the minotaur was a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man. The minotaur was the shameful offspring of...

I liked Paros a lot. It has lots of tradition and practicality, sprinkled with a little glitz. Paros is the third biggest of the 220...

Sunrise over Santorini, sailing into port from the sea. Santorini is a caldera — an extinct volcanic crater. Those two small islands in...

On our cruise from Athens we landed at six ports: five in the Aegean Sea and one in the Sea of Crete. Not a Mediterranean cruise at all!...

We took a day trip to Delphi, about two hours drive from Athens. We leave the city behind and we are soon in the rural countryside, where...

Athens Bike Tour is advertised as one of Trip Advisor's 25 highest rated outdoor tours in the world , and I can believe it. The bikes are...

It's hard to imagine how any description of Athens can start with anything other than the Acropolis, which dominates the skyline wherever...