The Best Travel Writing About Greece: Page 2 of 7

"People don’t like high fliers who come unstuck. “Got above himself,” they say. Few see Icarus as a romantic hero, a rebel against the conformity of the middle way; or, like Yeats’s Irish airman, driven by a lonely impulse of delight to his tumult in..."

"Outside the village of Monodendri, in the heart of the Zagoria region, you can walk along a precipitous ledge above the gorge and peer across to where the horizon is cracked open, or look down into the abyss. In autumn, the ever-present..."

"I met Judas on the quay. He was sitting defiantly, all alone at a table with his back to the sea. He wore a straw hat, dark glasses, yellow washing-up gloves and a pale jacket, much too tight. Someone had put a can of Heineken in his hand and an..."

"The singular characteristics of almost all great cities, the capital ones at least, have been noted in writing at one time or another. Even some of the lesser ones have. Acclaimed British travel writer Jan Morris, for example, discovered in the..."