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Wanderlust Greece
THE ARCHIVE
Every reading, newest first
The Peloponnese | The Peninsula That Contains Five Thousand Years
The peninsula is named for a man whose flesh Tantalus served to the gods. Pelops,…
The Mani | Where Greece Built Towers for the Living and Laments for the Dead
Greece has been softening itself for tourists for decades. Not dishonestly. The islands genuinely are…
Lefkada | The Island That Keeps Choosing to Be One
Lefkada is the only Greek island that was deliberately built as an island. Every other…
Thasos | The Island That Threw Away Its Shield and Kept Its Gold
The first Greek poet whose personal voice survives in any complete form, rather than filtered…
Naxos | The Island That Built Too Much and Finished Too Little
A giant lies on his back above the sea, looking at nothing, exactly as he…
Athens | The City That Kept Building on Itself
A few hundred meters west of the Acropolis, on a low, unglamorous outcrop of bare…