With an alarming look of distress, the young man at the ticket booth said we had come to Greece too late: "You cannot swim in the sea," he cried. Why hadn't we arrived in summer? "Too many tourists," ...

Greece's Peloponnese Peninsula: Nafplio, Olympia, the theater at Epidauros and Mycenae. Island getaways are fun, but the real heart of Greece is found in the Peloponnese Peninsula. After enjoying the ...

Beyond the heavily-trampled tourist trail of Athens and the Greek islands, the Peloponnese peninsula is the lesser-trafficked stuff of legends. It’s where myth meets history. Literally. It's from here ...

While most travelers to Greece head for the islands, I head for the hills — the mountains and valleys of the Peloponnese. Attached to the rest of Greece by a thin isthmus, this rugged land has always ...

Roadworks in southern Greece have unearthed a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be well over 3,000 years old and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, the culture ministry said ...

While most travelers to Greece head for the islands, I head for the hills — the mountains and valleys of the Peloponnese. Attached to the rest of Greece by a thin isthmus, this rugged land has always ...

We wouldn't have thought of going to Greece except that one of our daughter's best friends, Nefeli, was from there. "It's fine outside Athens," her parents assured us. "Even Athens isn't too bad if ...