If there is anyone out there who hasn't had enough of reading my blogs on An Odyssey in the Year of the Plague and An Odyssey in the Second Year of the Plague, I have an article in The Guardian this week about literally one of the high points... Click here
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| Pera Pigadi Bay ©Jane Cochrane |
This was the toughest of the walks on Ithaca – in fact it was also a large part climbing, and a small part mountaineering.
That's me pictured on the beach at Pera Pigadi Bay before setting off to the top of the crag far above, which is known as the Korakos Petra.
It has been convincingly argued that this was the route taken by Odysseus's son, Telemachus, when he returned to Ithaca from trying to find out what had happened to his long-absent dad.
Last week locals were saying that this ascent could no longer be done. But I am glad to say that they were proved wrong.
If you're wondering why I'm not giving much more detail about this and the other walks I've been helping to research on Ithaca, it's because all will be revealed when Jane Cochrane's new book, Walking in the Footsteps of Odysseus on Ithaca, is published – hopefully later in 2021.