Browsing: Mediterranean
I have visited Rome four times and still feel like I have barely scratched the surface. The city is designed to overwhelm you, and most first-time…
The Amalfi Coast is both one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen and one of the most miserable to visit in the wrong…
Sicily stopped me in my tracks in a way that very few places have. I arrived expecting somewhere like southern Italy but slightly rougher around the…
This question comes up on every Greece travel forum and it generates strong opinions. People who loved Santorini defend it fiercely. People who loved Mykonos do…
Athens has a reputation problem. Too hot, too noisy, too polluted, too much a city to be interesting when there are islands an hour away. I…
Crete is the largest Greek island and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean, and most of its three million annual visitors see roughly the same forty…
Greece has more than 6,000 islands. About 200 are inhabited. Most visitors see two or three, which is enough to understand why people spend decades returning.…
The Mediterranean has been drawing people to its islands for three thousand years. The Romans built villas on Capri. The Venetians fortified Corfu. The Phoenicians traded…