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Greece
Fly via Athens or Rhodes to Karpathos, then the mountain road north to a village that ignored the ferry age.
Rooms in the village itself — balconies over a gorge running to the sea.
One of Greece's most isolated villages, where older women still wear embroidered dress daily (not for you — for themselves), bread comes from communal wood ovens, and Easter is medieval.
Walk down the old mule path to Diafani through the terraces, and eat makarounes — the village pasta — where the grandmother makes it.
May to June, September to October
Yassas — hello; efharistó — thank you.
Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor — for the Greece that this village still is.
Saria, the uninhabited island north — day boats to a Byzantine ghost settlement.
August fills the island with returning diaspora — beautiful chaos, but come shoulder season for the quiet version.