Archive for May, 2012

Postcard from Antiparos

I met Vangelis our new concierge for Antiparos; a charming young man with blue eyes in a  brown face, and the longest eyelashes I have ever seen,  so it was very hard to focus on what he was saying – couldn’t make up my mind if that was a good thing or a bad thing in…

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May in Tinos

  I urge you to discover Tinos for yourselves. My 24 year old daughter who is accompanying me on this trip, so far has only really seen the  point of Mykonos and seems to have an in-built homing device programmed for Le Caprice; Now her plan is to buy a house on Tinos and go to…

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What’s hot on Mykonos.

Mykonos of course pays no attention to general European malaise as it knows it will as usual,  be full and buzzing all season . To celebrate summer 2012, Louis Vuitton,  Chanel and Enny Monaco  have opened new and beautiful boutiques on Matogianni, so shopping on a Greek island has never been better. Kiki’s cult little taverna and…

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Poros Yacht Show – the best yachts in Greece.

6th – 8th May  Poros Yacht Show.  The hot little Saronic Gulf island of Poros does not have quite the same ring to it as Monte Carlo, and yet, with the 40 or so yachts lined up on the jetty, ranging from 50+metre super yachts with gleaming sides, forests of satellites and radars  above, deep…

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Time to go Island Hopping

Time to leave England and the wettest drought on record,  the patter of rain, the sliding on mud and squelching through puddles, the over-flowing gutters and leaking roofs, the turning on all the lights at midday, gas company correspondence and the Leveson enquiry. It is time to go Island Hopping. Time to dry off, lighten up,  blink in…

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