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Idyllic Ithaka
« on: Sunday, 09 July, 2017 @ 22:32:53 »
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Travel in time to Ancient Greece by visiting Ithaca

SOME of us think we know Greece. However the country, and in particular its islands, are constantly surprising.

Offering us a place, a way of life, we thought had long gone. A raw, unspoilt countryside, where donkeys still toil the land and farmers not only pick their own produce but sell it off the back of their trucks.

Where uninviting beaches with large pebbles are uninhabited yet have waters so clear you can see down dozens of feet.

And of hilltop villages with clusters of simple stone houses that are so quiet you’d be lucky if you saw another soul.

That is, except for the old men with craggy faces sitting in their local cafenion flicking their worry beads over their hands. Just as they’ve done for decades.

The irony is, there’s nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. Yet they come daily. To sit and pontificate. To sip minuscule cups of thick, sweet coffee. They watch the modern world come and go. They are the constant.

This is the Greece of old. It does still exist on the Ionian island of Ithaca.
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/beach/826582/travel-greece-ithaca-ionian-island-beach-paradise