02 May 2012
Paros’s Yria Hotel has a beautiful big pool that’s perfect for swimming laps … … plus a comfy poolside terrace that’s perfect for lounging and relaxing Dreamy setting: Our only visit to Paros, so far, was back in June 2005, but I still recall how relaxed I got chilling out on the beautiful [...]
06 Mar 2012
Children play outside shops on a street in the Paros port town, Parikia
04 Mar 2012
The snow-white Santorini clifftop villages of Imerovigli and Fira provide a dramatic, distant backdrop for the distinctive blue and orange colours on the exterior of the caldera-view Armeni Village Rooms & Suites … … which we photographed during a visit to Oia in 2005 … … but as this photo I discovered today [...]
01 Sep 2011
The bottom of the oval swimming pool at the Naxos Beach II Hotel is decorated with a large illustration of the Portara, the island’s most famous monument Good swims: Our all-time favourite swimming pool in the Greek Islands is the only one in which we actually got to spend quite a bit of time [...]
19 Aug 2011
Our biggest hotel room key — ever — had to be the one that opened our studio at the Naxos Beach II hotel on a hillside in the Stelida district of Naxos. The key was’t just big, but it was heavy, too. It nearly poked a hole in my shorts pocket, so we turned [...]