vendredi 16 décembre 2016

Mythical meanderings

In the uninhabited Delos and the party-ready Mykonos, Greece is as eclectic as its history, writes Geetanjali Krishna

They say this is where light was born. A fine place to have forgotten to bring one’s sunglasses to, I think, squinting in the blinding Hellenic sun. What is it going to be like, I wonder, to explore Delos, an uninhabited island with ruins older than history itself — on the same day as I reach Mykonos, the hedonistic pleasure capital of the world? It seems inconceivable that the two islands are barely a few kilometres apart. At the centre of the Cyclades, Delos is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in a country which, like India, ...

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Mythical meanderings

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