Two weeks of calm on the Sporades archipelago have broken. A stiff wind unsettles the sea as I gaze across the Bay of Skiathos. Poseidon is rattling his trident. His brother Zeus, first among the gods and god of the weather, reminds us that it was he...
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On the beautiful Aegean island of Skiathos – the first in the Sporades archipelago – you might never gather that Greece was in deep crisis. Neither would you have the faintest notion that the country was in the grip of an historic general...
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Perhaps the best way of discovering the allure of the Aegean archipelago is to sail round it in a fine boat… not of the powered variety, but with an island breeze filling the sails of a handsome sloop. We were a family party of seven. Three generations...
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