Our first port of call in Greece - and a little haven compared to frenetic Mykonos!
Edna's lovely villa provided us with shelter, a beautiful view and more inspiration for The Travelling Prince - I think her lovely home, and her friend Jacky's, probably sets the record for receiving home exchange visitors. And Edna, a true traveller, wrote to us from China on her way to.... somewhere... Hungary, I think, then Grasse and Paris before heading home to Syros.
It has a special beauty, steeped in history and honey from the purple blooms of the wild thyme that has grown in the hills for centuries.
Snapped on a beach on Syros, we thought this photo summed up Greece's attitude to keeping itself and the euro afloat...
The island of Syros smells of wild thyme
and the crumbling walls tell tales of life gone by.
A villa in the sun, and walks by moonlight
cats who love you even for a day.
