With its wide variety of reading material (as well as food and beverages), this café on Folegandros gives a whole new meaning to the expression “book a table”
The café tables and books are in shade while a lush canopy of bougainvillea vines catches the brilliant morning sunshine above a row of whitewashed houses
The café is situated in one of the three charming town squares in Chora village. Filled with taverna tables, the squares are all shaded by plane trees.
A customer writes in her journal while enjoying a coffee in the quiet square
Air Transat logo on a winglet of the Airbus jet that flew me from Toronto to Athens
My Mykonos, Paros and Attica/Glyfada trip report
What follows is an edited and significantly expanded version of a trip report I posted on TripAdvisor.com shortly after returning from my holiday in Greece this past spring. I have added more extensive details to the text, and have included dozens of photographs to illustrate the report.
Sunday May 13: Flight from Toronto to Athens
I flew Air Transat, the Canadian charter airline I have flown on all of my trips to Greece. The flight was about two-thirds full when it left Toronto just past lunchtime on Sunday May 13. It stopped in Montreal for 90 minutes to collect more passengers and load the food and beverage carts for our 9-hour overnight flight to Athens. During the stopover, a flight attendant told a passenger sitting behind me that, with the additional passengers from Montreal, the flight was nearly full. (On all of my previous flights to Greece, except one, we flew direct to Athens; this year, Air Transat’s May flights stopped in Montreal because fewer people were travelling to Greece at the time and there wasn’t enough passenger demand to justify direct flights from both cities.)
Oia from above: The world-famous village at the northwest tip of Santorini comes into view from the clifftop hiking path that leads all the way to Oia from the island’s capital, Fira.
