Not in my wildest dreams would I think that my two days on Andros would end up with meeting three celebrities. Ok, the first one didn’t speak to me. I observed him from afar at Kórthi, one of the permanently windswept beaches of Andros, site of the 2000 World Youth Windsurfing championships and main training […]
Where the hell is Kythnos?
I don’t blame you if you are asking this question yourselves (ergo the map). I have become an expert in the messy Cyclades topography only by travelling myself to those dots in the Aegean. Somehow, Kythnos – the birthplace of my maternal grandmother – had passed me by. Until now. I was shocked. Kythnos, though […]
Kea, The Suicide Island
I haven’t written anything historical about the islands I’ve visited yet; of course, being Greek, each one has a unique and interesting history, but none more so that the island of Kea. Well, yes, it is here, that Simonides, one of the greatest poets was born; he is best known from his epitaph to the […]