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Helen Iatrou is a Greek Australian freelance journalist and guidebook author based in Athens since 1996. An avid sailor who enjoys cruising as much as racing, she writes about islands, sailing, small ship cruising, sustainable travel, food, and fitness, among other topics. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Travel, Lonely Planet, Condé Nast Traveller, CNN Travel, and CNBC Travel.
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What is it about islands? There’s a certain magic to them that has always drawn artists, poets and writers, who have set history’s greatest love stories on the islands of the Mediterranean ever since Aphrodite met Adonis in Cyprus.
It’s easy to see why. Anything can happen on an island. There’s an unequivocal romance about being adrift at sea, spirited away from the rest of the world to a refuge of beauty and luminous light, of quiet coves and clear mornings when the air is sweet with thyme and jasmine, and the early sun throws spangles across the water.