Wine, food and other pleasures

A couple of weeks ago we were treated to a particularly memorable meal at Quo Vadis that featured a main course salad of duck with cher...

For the best part of 20 years, since one of my best friends hooked up with and then married Nikos from Athens , I have been at the rec...

It was lovely being reminded what great hosts the Greeks can be. Our friends in Athens have a family house near Marathon in a town called N...

Our recent trip to Greece was my first time in eight years, so a visit to the new Acropolis Museum was a priority. It opened in 2009, takin...

While we were in Greece during half term we had the good fortune of spending a few days on Poros. Poros, one of the Saronic Gulf Islands,...

The last time I sat in a rail carriage gazing at breathtaking vineyards was in Portugal's Douro Valley . However, this time I was ...