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The Agora => Greek News => Holidays in Hellas => Topic started by: Maik on Tuesday, 16 August, 2016 @ 13:09:24
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Is this the most beautiful island in Greece?
Ithaca is just 18 miles from top to tail and although it offers various Odysseus-themed attractions – a cave, a spring, the ruins of a castle – there’s no point rushing to any of them. There are hardly any decent beaches. If you come here, you come for the island itself and my first impression was that it was far more beautiful than anywhere I’d been in Greece. It rains a lot in winter, making it lush and verdant for the rest of the year, with trees that couldn’t grow anywhere else.
The island is clean, with no sign of the three horrors that have blighted Greece: rubbish, half-built houses and graffiti. It has a purity, a peaceful quality, a sort of permanence. “This place I’ve reached, is it truly Ithaca?” Odysseus asked. I felt the same sense of wonder.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/articles/ithaca-holiday-mythical-greek-island-odyssey/