The Leigh Fermors: A Dazzling Romance with Greece

The Leigh Fermors: A Dazzling Romance with Greece

The Leigh Fermor Home (Kardamyli): True to their spirit of generosity, they left this cliff-top paradise to the Benaki Museum. It stays as a long-lasting testomony to their fulfilling romance, with one another and with Greece. For data on visiting the Leigh Fermor...
A Norwegian Who Explores Greece on Two Wheels

A Norwegian Who Explores Greece on Two Wheels

A few of his favourite biking routes Thessaloniki-Kozani-Ioannina-Patra-Aigio-Megara-Salamina-Piraeus-Volos-Skiathos-Volos-Larissa-Katerini-Thessaloniki Period: two weeks This was my first journey of 2023, in March. The outdated street from Kozani to Ioannina via the...
Vasilikos: A Farm Bistro in the Heart of Northern Greece

Vasilikos: A Farm Bistro in the Heart of Northern Greece

The cheeses are made by Nikos Katsamperis in neighboring Kariotissa. Vasilikos is on the coronary heart of a group of high quality purveyors, providing meats akin to pork from a local breed of pig (the ‘Ellinikos hoiros’ – Greek pig) raised on Makis Tapkos’s farm in...
Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

One Single and Everlasting Greece –Rallou Manou and Pavlos Mylonas “Δεν υπάρχει άρχαία και νεα Ελλάδα, αλλά μόνον Ελλάδα, αιώνια, ζωντανή και ωραία” (Ελληνικό Χορόδραμα 1950-1960 1961, p8)  “There isn’t any distinction between ‘historic’ Greece and ‘fashionable’...