I've spent mornings swimming out to a church on a spit of land that I climb up to from the sea, and had tiny silver fish jump from the water and arc back and forth over my head. ![]() You'll eat octopus, and sea urchins, and fresh fish, and every honey-drenched pastry imaginable. ![]() Most have a population of a few thousand for the entire island in the off-season, maybe a few hundred. They're arid and dusty and charming, home to small fishing villages and tavernas with the tables wedged unevenly in the sand on the beach. Don't misunderstand - the Greek islands are not lush or green or in any way remotely tropical in appearance. ![]() The ones without have long been the vacation spots of primarily Greek tourists, and it's both ironic and of course deeply inevitable that the hordes of American tourists who flock to the more name-brand islands in pursuit of fetishized "authenticity" are overlooking the spots where that exists in its purest form.Īs the daughter of a Greek immigrant, I grew up visiting my grandmother in Athens most summers, except that upon arrival we would promptly flee Athens in favor of a distant dry rock in the sea. Islands like that have exploded with Western tourists - in part because those are the islands with their own airports. But if your imagination veers from there into the Pinterest-y direction of Santorini and Mykonos, you're missing out. The rocky terraces and blinding-white houses with blue shutters, and the grey footpaths with white paint separating each stone. You probably think you know what the Greek islands look like, and to a certain extent you do. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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