“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine,
a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
A Greek Oddity’s Travel Planning Toolkit
Greece is not just the places on the postcards.
It is the mountain village where the kafeneion opens at seven and closes when everyone goes home. The harbour town the tour buses don’t stop at. The gorge, the monastery, the peninsula, the island — extraordinary places that most travellers drive straight past on the way to somewhere more obvious.
They are there. You just have to know how to find them.
So how do you get there?
To the places that aren’t on everyone’s list. The ones that don’t have an airport, a rental car office, or a TripAdvisor page with 847 reviews.
You could hire a car. Sealed in, sat-nav on, same roads as everyone else.
Or you could get on the bus.
Travel the way Greeks travel — on the KTEL with the yiayia and her shopping, on the slow ferry with the fishermen, through a landscape that only reveals itself at that speed. Greece’s public transport will occasionally perplex you. It will pay you back a hundred times over.
Because in Greece, the journey is the destination.
Greece has 62 KTEL intercity bus companies. Thirty years of getting on the right one — and sometimes the wrong one.
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About Me
Island hopper, story collector, travel inspirer and Greek Island specialist
Greece tends to reveal itself slowly – one harbour, one hillside village and occasionally, one cancelled ferry at a time. After thirty-something years of exploring more Greek islands than I ever intended to, (and spending my work days creating tailor-made island hopping itineraries), I’ve a fair sense of how to navigate Greece’s transport networks – how they work and sometimes how they misbehave!
What I bring back are glimpses of authentic Greece through my own ‘lived’ experiences. (I only write about places I’ve personally visited) I hope they inspire your own wanderings too. ❤️
