The Rambling Writer’s Favorite Greek Islands: Rhodes Beaches

As Autumn hints at coming winter, why not escape with Thor and me as we wistfully revisit some of our favorite beaches on fabulous Rhodos?

NOTE: Due to too much “life” lately, Thor and I haven’t been able for a few years to make one of our wonderful fall trips to the fabulous Greek islands. So here’s a taste of sunshine and crystal-clear, purple-blue seas from 2019, when we went ferry-hopping between favorite islands. Dive in for a last taste of summer! (This post is a rerun.)

This was our third trip to the big island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese near Turkey, and it was Thor’s turn to escape museums in favor of beaches. (For coverage of wonderful Medieval Rhodes Town and Classical Lindos, check out my blog posts from the previous two years.) And, since this trip was partly physical therapy for both of us — seriously, doctors urging us to spend more time swimming in warm climes! — we were happy to comply. The lure of that magical blue Aegean Sea is not to be resisted.

Like Peter Mitchell in my Greek islands novel THE ARIADNE CONNECTION, I’m drawn ever deeper:

He kicked hard, straight down into hushed shadow. The water split and reformed around him as he arrowed into it, sharp-edged as flowing crystal. It was bare underneath, too, rock outlined precise below him, not much in the way of fish or plants. Here and there a sparse weed curtsied in the swell, fingerlings scattering in a silver spurt of alarm. But the water: incredible clear blue like swimming in air, and the pure salt cool of it you could almost see forever stay forever, siren voices calling him deeper….

So, eager to explore a new location on the south side of the island, Stegna Beach, we set out in our rental car for another of those steep, hair-raising drives down a rocky cliffside to the small cove.

Naturally, we encountered goats browsing along the roadside.

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