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Before we leave Amorgos, we have one more story to share with you. It’s about food. Many of the meals we’ve eaten here have consisted only of ingredients grown and harvested locally. And on this island, those pickings are rich:… Continue Reading →
What does it say about Amorgos that the island’s most popular tourist attraction is a monastery? It says that the Hozoviotissa Monastery, bright white and pressed flat against a cliff face, is unusual and beautiful. It also says that a visit… Continue Reading →
When we first had the idea of getting out on the Aegean Sea for a couple of hours we didn’t expect to end up on a fishing trawler in choppy water at dawn. And yet that’s what happened. Yannis, a… Continue Reading →
How could we visit Greece without also visiting a Greek island, we asked ourselves. It was a question that begged another – which island should we choose? We’d seen the pictures – Santorini, Crete, Corfu, Mykonos – they all looked… Continue Reading →
For some reason Greece had never been top of our ‘must-see’ list … which is strange because, on paper at least, Greece seemed to have all the things we most enjoyed – ancient history, delicious food, natural beauty, great people…. Continue Reading →
About four hours northwest of Athens, in central Greece, there’s an extraordinary rock formation known as the Meteora. It’s a series of enormous rock pillars that rise up from the edge of the plain to dominate the landscape. But the… Continue Reading →
After Madeira we flew back to Portugal, picked up a car and headed off for a few weeks of exploring. Porto, Lindoso and Monsanto were some of the places we visited, but in our travels we saw quite a lot… Continue Reading →
The title of ‘Most Portuguese Village in Portugal’ has been awarded only once. The winning village was Monsanto. The year was 1938. The competition may have been part of the Salazar dictatorship’s propaganda machine, and Monsanto’s win may have had something… Continue Reading →
‘Enter the Village ONLY TO THE FOOD COFFEE IN PARADA-BEAUTIFUL’ was the instruction we’d been given, though we had no idea what it meant. Our destination was Lindoso, in Portugal’s far north. In these parts, the only available accommodation is… Continue Reading →