As someone who lives in Greece and travels often, I think Corfu, Sifnos, Kimolos, Crete, and Hydra are some of the best Greek islands to visit.

Hydra is at first glance no different from its neighbors. Like other islands in the Aegean Sea, it has white-washed streets, fragrant jasmine-filled air and breathtaking vistas of the shimmering blue ...

Travelers to the Greek island of Hydra should pack light. After all, what you bring, you’ll be carrying—or loading onto a mule. No motor vehicles are permitted on the small car-free island, though you ...

It was a place where visitors lost their inhibitions, my cooking school mistress in Athens said disapprovingly. Many of the Mykonos revellers were airline crew from the US, the UK and Australia. “They ...

The island of Hydra — less than two hours south of Athens by ferry — offers the ideal Greek island experience, and doesn’t require a long journey across the Aegean. But those who come here with an ...

Whitewashed towns clinging vertiginously to rugged coastal cliffs, bright-blue church domes against blood-orange Aegean ...