The Best Travel Writing About Greece: Page 3 of 7

"The forgotten coast of the western Peloponnese stretches from Cape Araxos in the north to Cape Akritis in the south, a meandering venture strewn with forlorn beaches, medieval castles and uninhabited islands. The western Peloponnese has..."

"In the late 1960s, when my father, a diplomat, was stationed in Washington, he received news that he was to be made an ambassador. Where would we be going next? We had already lived in Singapore, where I was born, Turkey and China as well as America..."

"Standing in front of the Hotel Artemis on the Greek island of Mykonos, we breathed a large sigh of relief. We had just stepped out of a van that had shuttled us from the harbor to the hotel (‘Shuttled’ being a word, in this case, used to define..."

"Far below and across the bay, a huddle of whitewashed houses and tavernas hugs the foot of a mountain, forming a crescent along the shore. A jetty extends a sheltering arm for a tiny fleet of fishing boats, moored in moody-blue water. The scent of..."