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Article: Island light: a cluster of whitewashed workmen's cottages in the Aegean is all pared-down simplicity, and yet filled with the romance of the seven seas.(Brief Article)
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- Victoria
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- July 1, 2002
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Forty years ago, it took fourteen hours to reach the magnificently austere Aegean island of Patmos from Athens. There were no restaurants, no visitors from the mainland and certainly no cruise ships. A shop selling suntan lotion? You must be joking.
All that changed with the advent, beginning in the early sixties, of a band of designers, painters, museum directors and GGFs (Good Greek Families) in search of an earthier way of life. While you can now obtain Coppertone on Patmos, not to mention Snapple, the island still satisfies a longing for whitewashed simplicity.
Among the latest arrivals are the man and wife who own this complex of three ...