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Fethiye & Olympos

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 6th July 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Fethiye, Olympos, Travel, Turkey

After anoth­er enter­tain­ing­ly per­fumed bus ride, we arrived in the port town of Fethiye to begin one of the most shame­ful­ly self-indul­­gent weeks of my already self-indul­­gent life. For it was here that we board­ed a yacht for a 4 …

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Samos / Ephesus / Pamukkale

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 5th June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Ephesus, Pamukkale, Samos, Travel, Turkey

Samos was the final step­ping stone into Turkey, our after­noon there mem­o­rable only for time spent with Spy­ros, our malev­o­lent taxi dri­ver, whose idea of safe­ty was to fin­ger his beads wher­ev­er con­ven­tion­al wis­dom might have sug­gest­ed brakes. It was …

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Syros & Patmos

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 4th June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Greece, Patmos, Syros, Travel

An unex­pect­ed stopover in Syros, the Cycladic cap­i­tal, afford­ed us the plea­sure of a swim around the city walls of Ermoupo­lis, over­looked by stag­ger­ing neo-clas­si­­cal man­sions, rather than the toast­ed marsh­mal­low bod­ies of Ger­man nud­ists that so com­mon­ly dom­i­nate Greece’s …

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Mykonos & Delos

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Delos, Greece, Mykonos, Travel

Mykonos. The very word inspires pal­pi­ta­tions for the repressed. So it was with pal­pi­tat­ing heart I said farewell to Yian­nis and board­ed the fer­ry to those gold­en sands of sin and excess. Bill, the guy who made my cof­fee back …

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Naxos

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Greece, Naxos, Travel

If San­tori­ni (to mis­ap­pro­pri­ate Yeats) has the kind of beau­ty to “make a stranger’s eye dis­traught,” Nax­os is like a lover whose beau­ty emerges in con­ver­sa­tion, deep­er and more endur­ing. Or per­haps I just find it hard to sleep on …

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Crete & Santorini

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Crete, Greece, Santorini, Travel

After one long fer­ry ride, we spent sev­er­al hap­py days in Rethym­no and Venet­ian built Hania, Crete, doing noth­ing much (bar a trip to Knos­sos, home of the Mino­taur), before excit­ed­ly trad­ing the Cre­tan sprawl of Irak­lio for the Cyclades. …

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Delphi

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Delphi, Greece, Travel

It is of lit­tle won­der that the Greeks cross them­selves so often. With tree-cov­­ered moun­tains con­vers­ing with deep val­leys and streams that gur­gle their way to the sea, one half expects God to step down from the clouds to say …

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Nafplio

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Greece, Nafplio, Travel

Today we are in Pelo­pon­nesian Naf­plio — Venet­ian built — and for­mer­ly the cap­i­tal of Greece. From here, the plan is to make day trips into Epi­dau­ros to vis­it the heal­ing Tem­ple of Ascle­pius and the leg­endary the­atre along­side her, …

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Corinth

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Corinth, Greece, Travel

Mod­ern Corinth is hard­ly a daz­zling metrop­o­lis, but its har­bour is beau­ti­ful, her sparkling waters enclosed by moun­tains. And its hos­pi­tal­i­ty is leg­end. In so far as it doesn’t exist, and per­haps nev­er did. Indeed, the hotel we stayed in …

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Athens

By Christopher Richardson Posted on 1st June 2014 Posted in Travel Writing Tagged with Athens, Greece, Travel

Tramp­ing through the city we find our hos­tel, nes­tled in an alley over-run by ped­dlers and the howl­ing of dogs, crawl­ing in wick­er cages out­side a satan­ic pet store. A Byzan­tine church defies the squalor, as a gyp­sy boy sings …

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