I came across this and thought it might be a welcome perspective for visitors to Greece worried about civil unrest! Excerpt from Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Chapter 2. The author was passing through Paris during the Black Tuesday riots of March 2006 “A national crisis is an opportunity, a gift to…
Kudos to Hollywood’s best travel insider, Gordon MacGeachy for getting an excellent article about us for his website Global Black Book, out of a bollocking I gave him for illicit use of photographs! Masterclass in honest journalism, which is what one would expect from a class act like Gordon. “Think you know Greece…? No you…
With exquisite timing, given last week’s blog about Spetses, we have taken on a really wonderful beach villa on Spetses with an astonishingly good value price tag given its fantastic beach location opposite the Niarchos island of Spetsopoula and glamorous pool. Contact us for a weblink, and then book yourself in for the Armata…
For fun, we showed you Spetses in winter, (see our facebook page) now back to business: Expensive real estate. Jet-set summer playground. Yes, Spetses is all that. But if that is all you see, you are missing the whole point of this rather special island. Spetses was home to a breed of enterprising and successful merchant captains in…