"The church was very small - only a little larger than a big garden shed. It had a domed, red-tiled roof and round arcaded windows. It lay quite alone in the rocky fields below the village, and was built from stone the colour of haloumi cheese. It..."
The Best Travel Writing About Greece: Page 6 of 7
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Last Stand of the Byzantines
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William Dalrymple
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Greece
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Peloponnese
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The Real Greek
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Lucretia Stewart
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Greece
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Cyclades (south)
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Naxos
"To the east of Naxos, the largest (and most beautiful) of the Cyclades, lie four tiny, exquisite, virtually uninhabited islands, the Small Cyclades or Mikres Kyklades. These are Iraklia (not to be confused with Iraklion, the capital of Crete);..."
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Autumn in the Amari Valley
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Christopher Som...
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Greece
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Crete Island
"The Cretan vineyard harvest was just over. I munched a bunch of plump green grapes and spat the seeds out of the car window as I drove up the bumpy road from Rethymnon into the high green oasis of the Amari Valley. Here was the very essence of..."
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Great Cities on Foot: Iraklion
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Christopher Som...
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
"“The thing about Iraklion,” declared Manolis, as he refilled my thimble-sized glass and his own, “is that tourists don't bother to come in these little streets to see how we live, to meet real Cretans.” He tossed back his raki and reached out for..."
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Illustrious Olympia, Then and Now
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Peloponnese
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Olympia
"In 2004, Greece hosted the Olympics for the first time since the modern Games started in 1896. Before that, it had been only 1,503 years since the previous ones, in 393 A.D. The year after, a pious Byzantine Emperor Theodosius I banned the Games,..."
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Top Beaches of Western Crete
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
"It is embraced by the Mediterranean, the Libyan and its own eponymous sea: and Crete, Greece’s biggest and most varied island, reciprocates the affection with rocky outcroppings, hidden coves and sandy beaches that run all along its winding..."
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Searching for the Soul of Crete: Into the Villages
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Crete Island
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Crete Town
"It was simple, Maria the village schoolteacher explained: people from the east of Crete are soft, overeducated idlers, according to the people from the west of Crete, who themselves are regarded by the former as violent goat-thieves, and a bit..."
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Into the heart of Byzantium: A journey to Mt. Athos
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Christopher Deliso
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Greece
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Mainland Greece
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Mount Athos
"In the expansive darkness, under a vast, star-clustered sky, they gather. These hooded shadows, flitting noiselessly through a maze of columns and arching passageways, are enacting a ritual greater than themselves. They melt into the church, from..."
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A Worshipful Company of Provident Adventurers
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Henry Shukman
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Greece
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Mainland Greece
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Thessaloniki
"Five fishermen are sitting around on makeshift benches beneath a palm shelter behind Miss Sophie's guesthouse. They wear dusty cut-off slacks and baseball caps. It is nearly noon, they are back from the morning on the sea, and their boats bob on..."
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Crete's Coastal Path
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Amar Grover
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Greece
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Crete Island
"It was, as omens go, blunt. At the edge of western Crete on the eve of a week-long hike, I was found to be of impure soul, a sinner. At the Monastery of Hrissoskalitissa - the 'Golden Step' - perched atop a knoll overlooking the sea, I saw merely..."
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