TURKISH DELIGHT

PART ONE

e’re on our third summer in the Greek islands and I’m starting to get confused by all these Greek island names. We’ve been to Paxos, Paros and Poros, and even now we can see Patmos to the west of us but the wind is up so, sadly, we won’t be heading there. We’ve also been to Serifos, Samos and Sifnos, whilst Symi is south of here, but more of that later. The other night, as I was trying to get to sleep, I attempted to remember the names of all of the Greek islands we’ve visited so far, and there were more than 40 of them! Since then I’ve dropped this amazing fact into a number of conversations with Greek people and not one of them has visited as many! Whilst it’s sometimes difficult to remember the name of each island, especially as some, like Zakynthos/Zante/Xanthe, have more than one name and most (Kefalonia, Kephalonia, Cefalonia, Cephalonia) have several different spellings, it’s easy to remember the individual places, as each and every