Destinations

The administrative capital of the Cyclades, and the one island where the main town is a working neoclassical city rather than a whitewashed village…

A round, pine-covered island off the coast of northern Greece, reached by a short car ferry, with white marble quarries, sandy beaches and no…

A six-kilometre channel sliced through the isthmus joining the Peloponnese to the mainland, 90 metres deep and too narrow for modern ships, an hour…

The middle finger of the Peloponnese, dry and stony, where families built fortified tower houses against each other and the landscape still shows the…

A long sandy bay with islands offshore, fifteen minutes from Nafplio, which does the beach half of an Argolid trip that Nafplio itself cannot.

A range of sheer limestone peaks in Epirus with stone villages on their flanks, arched bridges over the gorges, and rafting on the Arachthos…

The burial ground of the Macedonian kings, where an unlooted tomb widely identified as Philip II was found intact, displayed underground inside the mound…

A Macedonian town on an escarpment with dozens of small Byzantine churches hidden in its lanes, an old Jewish quarter, and Vergina’s royal tombs…

A near-perfect semicircle of sand in Messenia, enclosing a lagoon behind it, with a Bronze Age tomb and a Frankish castle on the headland…

A waterfront city on the Pagasetic gulf whose drinking culture comes with food attached, and the base for the Pelion villages and the Sporades…

A stone village at 1,000 metres in the Arcadian fir forest, the traditional Greek mountain weekend, with walking, a wooden-craft tradition and cold clean…

Chania is a Venetian harbour town on the northwest coast of Crete, and the base for everything in the island’s west.

A Thracian town whose old quarter is a hillside of colourful nineteenth-century merchants’ mansions, built when tobacco made it rich, above a genuinely mixed…

A Corinthian Gulf resort town an hour from Athens, whose defining feature is a large seafront pine forest growing to the edge of the…