Literary Greece: a novel approach to the Peloponnese

Following in the footsteps of Ancient heroes at a Greek reading retreat

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The traveller often has paradoxical desires, seeking out both the luxuriously modern and the ancient and undiscovered. Costa Navarino, on the Peloponnese peninsula, fulfils both requirements.

Even getting there is a delightfully Greek experience. The three-hour drive from Athens snakes around mountains, coasts through idyllic, lazy villages and then sweeps past vineyards and fields of olive trees.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.