Amanda Dardanis

A newspaper and magazine journalist for 25 years, Australian-born Amanda Dardanis traded backyard barbecues and beach cricket for the year-round summer lifestyle of the Athens Riviera. Previously editor of Athens Insider magazine, when she isn’t cheerleading about Greece’s unsung gems for The Times or The Guardian, you’ll find her on the hunt for new places to eat and drink in her Hellenic hamlet (extra ticks if they’re by the sea). “I love Athens for its free-spirited ways, its generosity, and its knack of always surprising you. At heart, it’s a big metropolis with a village soul."