There are still plenty of unspoilt spots in Greece – you just have to look a little harder, says a longtime contributor to the Rough Guide to Greece, first published in 1982 In 1981, when the first Rough Guide was being researched, I was teaching English in Athens and Greece was a very different country. Three decades have seen Greece metamorphose from unsophisticated backwater through full EU ...

When voters in France and Greece went to the polls in early May, the outcome caused consternation by threatening to deepen the crisis currently engulfing the continent.