Gourmet Traveller

The art of… living history

Into the sunset

Understanding the past, the last days of summer in Paros and Antiparos, a Mudgee escape, a local’s guide to Athens and discovering Crete on foot.

Travel journalists are fond of saying that a city “melds old and new”, as if time hasn’t happened everywhere. I’m sure I’ve written these waffly words about Singapore, Rome, Marrakech. And then I visited Athens, which cured me of this journalistic

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