Posts Tagged ‘Greece’

Kardamyli, Peloponnese

Published June 10th, 2011

Kardamyli, Peloponnese
The great Anglo-Irish writer and bookish wanderer Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died on June 10 at age 96, fell in love with Kardamyli, happening upon the isolated village in a long-ago tramp across the mountains from medieval Mystra. Though today Kardamyli has a resort and weekend villas, the population is still only 400 and Patrick
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The Way of Herodotus

Published December 13th, 2010

The Way of Herodotus
A Penguin Classics edition of The Histories in hand, Justin Marozzi journeys from Herodotus’ home town of Halicarnassus (now known as Bodrum), to Baghdad, Babylon, Egypt, Athens and the Peloponnese, weaving tales of his hero with erudite and entertaining modern travel. He even stops to have lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with the
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