Cheers to corkscrews!
I never leave home without one
Greece
Tuesday
Friday
Zakynthos: then and now
From shots to sun salutations at the Peligoni Club
Monday
Why I never enjoy going on holiday
I meant to experience Beauty. Wonder. Awe and all that jouissance jazz. Instead I’m thinking: help!
Monday
Married in Meteora
Agios Stefanos is replete with God’s presence — despite the tourists
Thursday
Souvlaki with graffiti
Even the graffiti can’t undo the light over Athens. It bathes the city in a serene glow
Monday
All Greek to us
The Greeks by Roderick Beaton and The Greek Revolution by Mark Mazower reviewed
Saturday
Paying the ferryman in Greece
Greece may never be this empty again
Tuesday
Walking to Byzantium
The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan
Saturday
Salamis tactics
Piraeus was the point of entry for the notorious plague that afflicted Athens in 480 BC
Wednesday
Will Turkey and Greece clash over a tiny island?
Kastellorizo lies a mile from the Turkish mainland
Sunday
The doctor’s dilemma
Talking Until Nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 by Isaac Matarasso reviewed
Thursday
Why Greeks abhor and applaud Brexit
British imperiousness appeals to Europe’s disenfranchised south
Wednesday
The real Durrells of Corfu
The family drama behind the PBS show
