Last night, I was sipping homemade limoncello by the poolside at my hotel at the resort of Kamari, on Santorini, with the landlady, the indomitable Mrs Tina. She was telling me how she built the designer hotel complex Chez Sophie in nine months from scratch. ‘My Fourth Child’, she called it. (Of course, we reached […]
Santorini: The best view in the world?
The wide marine caldera of Santorini in conjunction with the blue Greek sky and the photogenic Cycladic architecture conspire to make for an unforgettable spectacle. A room on Santorini that looks into the caldera can add upwards from 100 euros per day to your budget, or double your bill in a bar or restaurant. So, […]
Athens part II: Reasons to be Cheerful
Do you know what the good residents of the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia did when they realized that their main square had become a centre of the drug trade? Senior citizens stood on the square with a megaphone and announced as loudly as they could: “You, there! I saw you passing the dope palm-to-palm to […]