Greece: The Peloponnese

Travel information and holiday advice featuring Corinth and the Argolid highlights, ancient history and archaeological sites. Also covers recommended walks, skiing, beaches, resorts, museums, Olympia, Mycenae, Argos, Laconia, Sparta, Messinia, Kalamata, Arcadia, Tripoli, Byzantine churches and medieval forts.

Andrew Bostock first travelled to the Peloponnese as a 15-year-old backpacker and spent his first night sleeping under a bush in the car park, having watched a performance of Oedipus at Colunus at the great theatre of Epidavros. He kept returning with various companions before moving there with his pregnant partner in 2005 - their daughter was born in Kalamata. Andrew spent the next five years guiding tours around the area, exploring its lesser-known parts, and writing about it for magazines and newspapers. The first edition of his Bradt guide Greece: The Peloponnese with Athens, Delphi and Kythira was published in 2010. He died in early 2021.