It is still early in the morning when we set off for the Vikos Gorge. The sun is just rising and the sky is pink, orange and blue. We begin our tour in the mountain village of Monodendri, whose ...

They call it Tsipouro, a clear brandy made from the residue of the wine press. At 40-45% proof it packs a bit of a punch. But I was grateful for it… and the 14th century monks who invented it. Welcome ...

Divided into four seasons, from winter to fall, the pic charts an annual cycle that the Anastasious have repeated for more than 30-odd years, as they leave from the city of Trikala, in central Greece, ...

It's a sparkling July morning in the Pindus mountains of north-west Greece. Three dogs dig energetically at the base of an oak tree on the green, forested slopes. In seconds, they strike metaphorical ...

Zagori, a remote region in the Pindus mountains in north-west Greece known for its natural landscape and for 46 historically significant stone villages, has been registered in UNESCO’s World Heritage ...

With its lofty peaks, lush pastures, wooden chalets and clanging cattle, the Pindus Mountains could be mistaken for Switzerland Heidi Fuller-love is a travel writer and has lived in a dozen countries, ...

In the cloudy Pindus mountains, high above the sunny olive groves of central Greece, hard-bitten guerrillas sang the exploits of their hardest-bitten chiefs. Echoes drifted down to Cairo, where Greeks ...