Yannis Divramis 
The Rhodes Bee Museum is a small, friendly attraction near the village of Pastida, set on the flat ground between Rhodes Town and the airport. It is run alongside a working honey producer, so the place feels less like a static gallery and more like a window onto the island’s living beekeeping trade. Inside you … Read more
Apollona is a traditional mountain village in the central interior of Rhodes, sitting on the wooded slopes near Mount Attavyros, the island’s highest peak. It is one of the quietest and most authentic inland settlements on Rhodes, a place where everyday rural Greek life carries on much as it has for generations, far from the … Read more
Salakos is a small, green, spring-fed village on the lower slopes of Mount Profitis Ilias in north-central Rhodes, set apart from the island’s coastal resorts by its cool, shaded microclimate and forested interior. Water defines the place: the Nymph spring, known in Greek as Pigi tis Nymfis, rises near the village, and the local Nymfi … Read more
Archipoli is a traditional inland village set in the green wooded hills of north-central Rhodes, a short drive up from the island’s east coast into a landscape of pine forest and small farmland plots. It sits in the cooler, shaded interior of the island, away from the beach resorts, and keeps a quiet rural character … Read more
Kalathos is a quiet village and long beach on the east coast of Rhodes, sitting just north of Lindos along the same sweeping shoreline. The settlement splits into two parts: a small, low-key inland village core set back from the road, and a relaxed beachfront strip of tavernas and apartments facing a wide bay. The … Read more
Ixia is the upmarket resort strip on the north-west coast of Rhodes, lining the bay between Rhodes Town and the island’s airport at Diagoras. It is the address most travellers picture when they imagine a four- or five-star Rhodes holiday: a continuous run of large hotels and spa resorts set back from a long pebble … Read more
Rhodes ranks among the very best Greek islands for windsurfing, and the reason is wonderfully simple: the wind shows up reliably through the warm months. The island sits in the south-eastern Aegean where the meltemi, a steady northerly summer wind, sweeps down the exposed west coast and funnels around the southern tip, giving sailors dependable … Read more
Rhodes is one of the most rewarding islands in Greece for a honeymoon because it gathers so many different kinds of romance into a single, easy-to-reach destination. A couple can spend a slow morning on a quiet beach, wander a medieval old town in the afternoon, and watch the sun drop behind a clifftop village … Read more
Theologos, written on many road signs as Tholos, is a low-key family resort strung along the north-west coast of Rhodes, sitting roughly between Paradisi and Soroni and only a short drive north of Rhodes airport. It is the kind of place travellers choose when they want a Greek-island base that stays calm in high season … Read more
Kattavia is the southernmost village on Rhodes, a small, traditional agricultural community set among open farmland near the island’s far tip, well beyond the resorts of the east coast. It is the last real settlement on the road south, with a modest village square, a church, and a couple of tavernas where farmers and the … Read more