Recently a dream became reality; we had the first wedding ever on my olive farm! The Scandinavian couple Oddney and Tore said their vows next to the sea as their guests watched while sitting on hay bales with Poros town…
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Celebrity spotting
Poros might not have the jet-setter reputation of islands like Mykonos, but keep your eyes peeled because you might just spot a celebrity walking along the quay. Celebrities spotted in recent summers included actors Michael Douglas with Catherine Zeta-Jones, director…
Get to know the Russian Bay
Russian Bay is set amphitheatrically along a small cove framed by thick pine woods and sheltered from the channel by the pretty Daskalio islet. The ruins are all that remains today from the abandoned Russian Naval Station. The Treaty of…
Kostas Papanicolaou’s “gaze” looks out from the Poros Archaeological Museum
This summer there’s added incentive to visit the Poros Archaeological Museum: an exhibition of works by acclaimed Greek artist Kostas Papanicolaou arranged among the archaeological finds. “So much I gazed…” is a series of seven female figures painted by Papanicolaou,…
Henry Miller describes Poros
“I don’t know which affected me more deeply-the story of the lemon groves just opposite us or the sight of Poros itself when suddenly I realized we were sailing through the streets. If there is one dream which I like…