It’s hard to beat walking on the Mediterranean seaside but a serendipitous sidetrek in the Peloponnese to alluring spots like Sparta and Epidauros can be equally exhilarating. And although the Idiot usually has a serious mission when he veers off the unbeaten coastal path, it’s invariably altered when he reaches Read more
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 Read more
“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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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