This is one of the best times I’ve ever spent in the Greek islands. Maybe I shouldn’t be telling you, but keeping it secret.
At 8am from the deck of Seabourn Encore, Poros is an enticing sight. A place I’ve never heard of, revealing itself in a titillation of bulging blue church domes and whitewashed houses, wobbling yachts and crumpled hills. The water is kingfisher blue, the morning light golden.Adobe Stock
Poros is one of the most conveniently located of all Greek islands, yet is bypassed by the mass and international markets. A few sun-crisped Scandinavians flop on tethered yachts, but Greeks slump at cafe tables on the waterfront, drinking thick coffees and swirling their worry beads.I’ve arrived overnight at the start of a Seabourn cruise through Greece and Turkey. From Athens, Poros is 58 kilometres by ship or ferry across the Saronic Gulf, or 180 kilometres if you drive around it.
Poros is technically two islands of disproportionate size, joined by a short bridge. Athenians come to bike and walk, sail and wallow in shallow sapphire waters. I’m sticking to small island Sphaeria where Poros town is located.The town has graceful neoclassical architecture and frescoed churches that dissolve further up the hill into a labyrinth of cottages fronted by tiny gardens. Poking up above it all is a clock tower that flirts with the scenery and provides good orientation.
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