All-inclusive resorts often strike me as odd > Why go all the way to an all-inclusive resort and spend your days trapped in what is essentially a gilded prison?
Surely you would soon tire of sitting in the same bars and restaurants while you watch entertainment on the same stages night after night? I struggle to leave my [...]
Greek Islands and other favorite places, by Eugene Aubrey Stratton, author of “FIT FOR FATE: A TALE OF BYZANTINE INTRIGUE IN MODERN ATHENS”
British writer Lawrence Durrell in one of his books coined the word “islamania” to describe the love many people have for islands. He himself was an islamanic, and I, too, share that love. [...]
Chalkidiki [Halkidiki] > a secret paradise of Greece
Chalkidiki or Halkidiki as some know it is a three-pronged peninsula, located in Northern Greece, roughly in the center of Macedonia. To the north it shares borders with the prefecture of Thessaloniki the country’s second largest city. To the south, east and west Chalkidiki juts into the Aegean [...]