Some of the Greek islands suffer from the effects of ‘kalimari and chips’ mass tourism. But, sometimes, you only need to take a short trip in a ferry or a kaiki to enter a different …

By Vivienne Mackie
“Reveal Athens. Enjoy the Delights of Greece’s Capital City in Just a Few Days”. Authors Eleni Koi and Nikos Kapsalis. Design and main photography by Carl Ottersen. Inaossien Ltd., Nov 2012, 85 pages. …

One spring day a kindly neighbor invited me into her kitchen for artichoke school. She taught me how to rub the freshly cut and peeled hearts with a lemon so they wouldn‘t brown.

After my harvesting experience, I feel a sense of kinship when I pass by the rows of shimmering olive trees on the hillsides or near the coast.

I have learned much about the rhythm of the island of Karpathos from observing the sheep who decorate the hillsides.

Are you in the mood to order a bowl of been soup, followed by rooster in weak wine? You have a choice of often-baked potatoes or leaves with rice.

by Roberta Beach Jacobson, photos by Alf B. Meier
Some tourists to Greece, when visiting the Karpathos Island studio of 86-year-old Yannis Chapsis, bristle …

Story and Photos by Keith Kellett
Two years ago, I visited Crete, and wrote in JSG about a traverse of the Samaria Gorge. Crete is a very mountainous island, and has many other …

Story and Photos by Keith Kellett
I’ve never been to Arizona , but, according to the tourist blurb, I’ve been to the Grand Canyon six times! I’ve been to Gordale Scar, which has been described as …

by Roberta Beach Jacobson, photos by Alf B. Meier
Karpathos is located in the sparkling Aegean, midpoint …

Story and Photos by W. Ruth Kozak
Kefalonia, an island off the west coast of Greece, is renown for its seafarers. One of these island mariners was a man we know as Juan de Fuca. The …