Five Star Greece on the road. I never made it to Patmos in the end – gale force 9 winds brought all ferries to a halt. Patmos as you know is where St John wrote the Book of the Apocalypse, and I am betting that it was on just such a wet and windy…
Five Star Greece on the road I finally made the ferry to Ithaca – how one’s spirits lift on a boat trip – the white spray flies up from the bows, foam spreading like cream across the waves. The weather is an almost balmy 18 degrees, and all the annoyances of travel disappear, such as…
Five Star Greece – February 18th I am stuck in Athens waiting for the wind to drop enough for the harbour master to allow the ferry that I need to catch to leave for Cephalonia. This is your gain as having nothing positive to say at the moment, other than Athens is on sale so…
February is here and with it the opening of the carnival season, which only ends on March 7th with “Clean Monday” and the beginning of the Lenten fast. Patras, Greece’s western port is the best place to go to catch the parades. Rethymnion on Crete also has a lovely venetian-style carnival, but we like what…
Five Star Greece “Kyrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison” – that ancient Greek prayer is ringing out above an 18th century marble pool where 60,000 white robed Ethiopians have gathered, glimmering like ghosts in the cold pre-dawn, to celebrate the Epiphany in the old citadel of Gondar. I have been researching Greek influence in the Horn of…