In a Metro Travel Hot Takes, Maria Astardjieva argues Corfu is a tourist trap – but the real Greek hidden gem is just across the water. Metro logo Search Metro ...

In the eighth installment of Metro Travel Hot Takes, Maria Astardjieva shares her disappointment with Corfu — and Greece’s mainland village that captured her heart. I remember the first time I ...

Greeks of the 5,000-year-old village were ethnically cleansed and then forcibly expelled in 1922. Credit: Wikitestaccountlogin, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia. The ghost village of Levissi (known today as ...

The menu is quintessentially Greek, evoking memories of home cooking—giouvetsi, stifado, papoutsakia, gemista, soutzoukakia, yuvarlakia, fricassee, mageiritsa, and the famed kleftiko, slow ...