Sunbeds crammed inches apart, identical souvenirs in every shop window and inflated prices for food, drink and accommodation. These are just some of the reasons travellers choose to avoid Greece’s ...

Skopelos is the largest island in the Sporades, an hour’s ferry-ride from neighbouring Skiathos which has the only airport of the three. The first recorded mentions of the island were in 1600 BC, when ...

Skopelos is the filming location of 2008’s Mamma Mia! (Picture: Sophie Williams) Seventeen years ago, Hollywood plucked a tiny Greek island from obscurity and put it on the map. But it hasn’t been ...

TELL anyone that the beautiful Greek island of Skiathos is only a stone’s throw from the mainland and you’d be dead right – sort of. It’s actually about 40 miles from the nearest port, Volos, but that ...

Skopelos, in Greece’s Northern Sporades islands, is famous for being where the seminal 2008 Abba musical Mamma Mia! starring Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth was filmed. But ...

The greeting surprised me. “Hello, Emma,” said the smiling Scottish couple. Thousands of miles from home on the Greek island of Skiathos, I was puzzled how I could bump into someone I knew. A split ...

Sunbeds crammed inches apart, identical souvenirs in every shop window and inflated prices for food, drink and accommodation.