It's all Dodecanese to me

Scotland on Sunday | August 13, 2000| | Copyright

Only when Costas, our Greek waiter, picked out one of our crowd, lifted him horizontally above his head and spun him round like a dish balancing on a stand in one of those Generation Game contests did we appreciate just how serious the locals on Kos are about having fun.

A group of us were on a Greek night out on the island of Kos in the Aegean Sea. We were in a mountain top village called Zia in a beautiful rooftop taverna that commands views right across to Turkey.

Kos, south-east of mainland Greece, has a coastline - and ancient history - to be reckoned with. Its beaches offer different ...

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