Typically Greek: a church no Skopelos
Dana Facaros
Published in the April issue of The Sunday Times Travel Magazine
Forget the islands: fly into Athens, hire a car and swing around the Saronic Gulf into the Peloponnese, the three-pronged peninsula south of mainland Greece. In an hour, you cross the Corinth Canal into another world.
The arid light of Attica softens; barren rock gives way to cypresses, olives, vines and oranges. And in spring, everything is luxuriant; even the cracks in the walls are filled with flowers.
