It’s just a short 30-minute hop across from Naxos to the beautiful tiny islands of Koufonisia, the main island of Ano Koufonisi, the sparsley populated island of Kato Koufonisi and the mysterious archaeologically rich island of Keros. It’s our second visit here to see our dear friends N&H, spending four days unwinding on this unpretentious…
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Into The Heart Of The Cyclades – Naxos
“Where Zeus himself was said to live. Where his son Dionysus frolicked and presumably drank and threw orgies and danced all night…” – Anthony Bourdain Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades islands, is one of those places where you can just forget about the pressures of life, where time slows down and relaxation is the…
Athens – People, People, Everywhere
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognise you has a tourist.” Athens and, in particular, the Acropolis, is one of those ‘must see, bucket list’ icons. You feel you’ve seen it even without ever having been there. The Parthenon, with its instantly recognisable columns has to be one of the…
Koufonisi, A Dose of Paradise in the Windy Cyclades
Koufonisi is made up of two island gems, Pano (upper) and Kato (lower), both part of the Lesser Cyclades that include Irakleia, Schoinoussa, Donousa and Keros with Pano Koufonisi the most populated with some 400 or so souls – more in summer when tourists arrive to stay, no day trippers though, as these islands are…
Travels With My Ant 