BEFORE I headed to the Greek island of Alonissos, a waiter in neighbouring Skiathos told me: “It’s too quiet there, I prefer ...

Seventeen years ago, Hollywood plucked a tiny Greek island from obscurity and put it on the map. But it hasn’t been affected ...

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 ...

Sea-girt? Wine-dark? There is something about Greek islands that tempts even the normally aloof, fastidious and modern into clumsy Homeric references. But Skopelos is rather different. Although it has ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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