Hints and tips:
...By day, you’ll cycle back roads and paths in and around Kardamyli, with lunches in local villages (like Kastania: one taverna, 11 churches) and special access to the Leigh Fermor House, before boating down...
...I have zero boating qualifications and little experience beyond a weekend on a narrowboat in Droitwich....
...The sun tips lower towards the rosy sea; there’s no sound but the wind. Behind us, the volume of her cave beckons: a gem left just rough enough, unlike anything on the island, or anywhere else. ...
...However, the best place to enjoy a proper meal or elegant cocktail is the Boathouse, a delightful restaurant with a wonderful terrace overlooking a boating lake....
...Also, in the summer there are long queues for the car chain ferry across to Studland from the tip of the peninsula, which block people’s driveways.”...
...Just before you reach the café, toilets and boating lake, you will see an exit on the left that takes you to a footbridge over the railway....
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...Today, the stretch of the Highway 1 corridor that runs round the peninsula’s southern tip can feel like one long misadventure in breezeblock and terracotta....
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...(One of these, Campercontact, turned out to be useful as a geeky source of tips for off-piste places to park.)...
...Within its 25 acres are horse stables, a tennis court, boating lake, pool and rose garden....
...“But we’re seeing a small uptick in buyers from South America and Europe, thanks mostly to the boating and fishing activities here.”...
...And, an arm’s length from my tent, three of the biggest elephant bulls I’ve ever seen stroll by, delicately picking up the acacia seedpods with the tips of their trunks and crunching them appreciatively....
...Skinner’s first major project was Rou village, near Corfu’s northern tip. A decade ago it was deserted....
...Before moving off, White and Bosse, who have both packrafted for a few years, dispense tips. “The main thing to be concerned about on this river is wood,” says Bosse....
...The prices are high but the menu is sophisticated: a typical first course is tagliolini with asparagus tips, a scent of lime and black truffle....
...See also How to Spend It’s special boating issue...
...Two north Africans at a window acknowledge us with a tip of their hookah pipes....
...“Venice is now a pedestrian, not a boating, city....
...Chief among these is Annecy, a collection of canals, cobbles, cafés and châteaux set on the northern tip of the eponymous lake....
...I also like Wray’s visual tip of imagining that I am squashing a firm tomato under the ball of my foot each time it lands....
...The exception is Bellagio, at the tip of the point between Lake Como and Lake Lecco....
...It’s got great boating and scuba diving or snorkelling … but more than anything else it’s the relaxation, it’s to come down and take a break.”...
...Ackroyd’s waterborne excursion into history, a sequel to his biography of London, is as soothing as a summer boating party; and the author is a sympathetic steersman....
...The Porer lighthouse, located just off the southernmost tip of the Istrian peninsular, is said to have “the most beautiful sunsets in the Adriatic”....
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