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Wanderlust Greece
THE ARCHIVE
Every reading, newest first
Symi | The Harbor That Wealth Built and Silence Inherited
The boat from Rhodes rounds the last grey headland and there it is, a steep…
Olympos | The Karpathos Village Where the House Belongs to the Daughter
For most of its history, the easiest way to travel from Olympos to the capital…
Ios | The Island Where Homer Was Defeated by Children
On Ios, Homer was defeated by children. Not by a rival poet, not by a…
Patmos | The Island That Declared Itself Sacred and Meant It
The voice came through a crack in the rock. St. John, known in Christian tradition…
The Lousios Gorge | The River That Washed Zeus and Hid Everything Else
The river that runs through this gorge, according to Pausanias, was the coldest river in…
The Zagori Villages of Epirus | Where Stone Bridges Lead to Another Century
There is a specific silence in the Pindus Mountains that exists nowhere else in Greece.…