Perhaps the incident of the bell tower illustrates the essence of Halki perfectly. A stone clock tower next to the ornate city hall looms over the village – but it is silent. Years ago, the bells in the tower used to chime out the hours, until one day the villagers decided they’d had enough: it was too noisy. Who needs to know the time anyway?
It’s not that time stands still in Halki; it just slows. On this idyllic island, you live for the moment.
Halki (also spelled Chalki) is not one of the well-known, popular Greek islands, many of which (like Santorini and Mykonos) are now overrun with tourists and, as aand tumbledown stone houses.
