A Day in Spetses
It's October, and I'm in Porto Heli, southern Greece. The rain has stopped, but the mosquitoes haven't. My arms and legs bear the marks of my enemy's feasts. I have a skin infection, and my ankle—swollen—is crowned with a fluid-filled balloon that has just popped.
Salvaterra Country House & Spa
The first time I saw a stone pine was in Rome. It was exotic to my foreign eyes—tall, slender and inordinately top-heavy, its canopy cutting a silhouette so perfect it seemed factitiously formed. But here, it stands transfigured.
Serpentin Garden
It was a melting hot day in the wildest depths of Greece when I emailed Doris Schlepper to say I’d heard about her garden and was staying just around the corner if she wouldn’t mind a visit.
The Latvian Birch Sap Bottler
From his home-slash-production site in the woods of Latvia's Smiltene region, Ervins Labanovskis harvests birch sap, transforming it into organic drinks and syrups.