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Like a Prayer (or Two): Why Madonna is Ditching Mykonos for a Holier-Than-Thou Greek Odyssey
Champagne showers are in for overpaid soccer players; for pop royalty it's monastic blessings. Inside an unsurprising shift from party island VIP to…
 • Anthony Grant
CONFESS: Like Us, You Are Insanely Jealous of Madonna's Big Fat Taylor Swift-led Greek birthday holiday on Corfu
Holiday, celebration, come together in every nation. But especially Greece.
 • Anthony Grant
We Think London Should Return the Parthenon Marbles to Athens. Rick Steves Might Need Help Tying His Shoes.
The British Museum calls itself universal. Greece sees a monument dismembered. The question is whether a museum’s global ambitions should outweigh a…
 • Anthony Grant
SAVORY SECRETS of the eastern Greek islands
Like to eat?
 • Anthony Grant
Symi Unseen: 3 Quiet Corners Beyond the Rick Steves Crowd
Steves seemingly did Symi like a day-tripper. We did not.
 • Anthony Grant
How to find your perfect hotel in Piraeus
This unpretentious 35-room hotel by the famous port became a canvas for world-class street art—and the ultimate pre-ferry stopover.
 • Anthony Grant
Rick Steves, Bless Him, Is a Bible-Thumping Hack of European Travel. His Videos Are Blasphemy.
For non-Christian travelers, watching his vids means enduring a nonstop, uncritical sermon on every altar in Western Europe
 • Anthony Grant
Forget Taylor Swift's wedding partying: Did Brad Pitt's "Intoxication" Start in Hydra?
Brad Pitt may blame alcohol, but after filming The Riders on Hydra, we suspect the island’s beauty, history, and aggressively curated charm had…
 • Anthony Grant
Condé Nasty's roundup of "most photographed Greek islands" is total B.S. — here's why
How legacy travel outlets turn app surveillance data into editorial slop
 • Anthony Grant
Tales From the Un-Santorini: Part II
Empty roads, 365 churches, and a quiet island that swaps crowd-pleasing glam for goats, secret beaches, and Homer’s tomb.
 • Anthony Grant
This is Greece’s most beautiful beach—and the only way onto the sand is to swim for it.
Boats are generally banned from landing on Crete's Chryssi Island to protect its fragile shores—meaning if you want to touch the sand, your only option…
 • Anthony Grant
Why Odysseus Would Have Stayed at Porto Zante
Wouldn't you?
 • Anthony Grant
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