In the golden haze of a September afternoon, my pulse races as I scramble over wind-scarred granite rocks and drop into lichen-draped holm oak woods in Magganitis on Ikaria’s southwest coast.

Diane Kochilas, a chef and cooking teacher, lives between Greece and the US, but Ikaria is her spiritual home. Ikaria is a ...

In Greece, there is always another island to explore. Fly to either Kos or Mykonos from the UK with Easyjet, and take a ferry via Ikaria, using Ferryhopper (ferryhopper.com) . There are also fast ...

We’ve just finished a 10-day cruise through Greece’s Cyclades ... starting with the relatively remote island of Ikaria. The destination is one of the world’s famous five Blue Zones ...

Although throughout history various interlopers — pirates, Ottoman expansionists and Nazis among them — have claimed this territory as their own, Patmos has belonged to Greece since the late ...