Category: Travel

Meet the Pallisers

I saw The Rocky Horror Show at a theatre in the King’s Road (possibly The Royal Court) in the 1970s and was taken by surprise when the audience were mostly in costume and participated in the show – I remember lots of rice being chucked in a wedding scene.

The Flight of Ikaros

“There is a surplus of books about modern Greece, but this one is the best for many years”, writes a reviewer in the New Statesman in the latter half of the last century.

Apochairetistírio

I have been coming to Greece since 1977 and have never stayed on the mainland before, once staying on Spetses and otherwise island hopping on chartered yachts.

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The Deep Mani

Hitherto our transport has been a Land Rover Discovery and a Mercedes people carrier.

From Alpha to Omega

What common feature does England, Italy, North and South America have – and the Peloponnese for that matter?

The Temple of Hephaestus

As Loriners will know Hephaestus was the patron god of metal working no doubt including the parts wrought in metal on a horse’s harness such as bits, bridles and stirrups. And as everyone knows the Greeks were riding horses more than a thousand years before the Birth of Christ.