Every Greek school kid is well enough versed in the classics to know that Paris, the besotted Trojan prince, first slept with Helen, the unfaithful Queen of Sparta, on the island of Kranai before whisking her home to Troy 3,205 years ago. Their fateful frolic and reckless spree led, of course, to
“Inhospitable” is everyone’s favorite adjective to describe the heathen terrain and hostile topography of the southwestern coast of the Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese. Indeed, the beautiful region is so stark, barren, rocky, cliffy, windswept, arid and remote that six new words are being invented in contemporary Greek each year
I did not establish a base camp in Kardamili on the Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese to inconvenience Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. After all, the English World War II commando/hero and knighted author, who is considered one of the world’s leading travel writers, is 95. He deserves to be left in peace
The Idiot, who was instructed to MedTrek in the Peloponnese by the Oracle at Delfi less than two weeks ago, not only thrived and tanned throughout the 290-kilometer MedTrek down the western seaside of the Greek peninsula/island/isthmus. But between the kickoff at the modern cable-stayed bridge north of Patras and the conclusion
It takes absolutely no imagination to envisage Lord Nestor of Gerênia gabbing with Odysseus’s visiting son at his breezy two-story hilltop palace about 17 kilometers north of the picturesque, pleasant and protected port of Pylos in the Peloponnese. The beckoning palace ruins, aged and gnarled olive trees and spectacular view over the
The Idiot occasionally interrupts his Mediterranean beachside walking adventure in the Peloponnese by venturing inland to savor a quintessentially Greek treasure like the ruins at Olympia, once a Sanctuary of Zeus and for centuries the venue of the summer Olympic Games. Zeus himself encouraged the Idiot to abandon the trail on Saturday
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