| Rhodes or Rodos, Greece is the Crusader Isle, steeped in ancient history and boasting 300 days of blue skies each year. It lies at the southern end of the Dodecanese chain of islands that follows the line of the Turkish coast It is one of the most popular holiday destinations in the Mediterranean and has been for many years, attracting relentless and overwhelming waves of visitors from March to November. Its most popular resorts, such as Faliraki, are now totally devoted to package tourism and nurture an insatiable avarice in the islanders that only an unending supply of cash-spending gullible foreigners can sustain Anyone is search of goatherds and fishing villages has come to the wrong place. |
| The most popular beaches on Rhodes lie along the north and east coastlines. To the north are high- rise conference complexes of glass and steel towering over narrow strips of shingle and buffeted by the northern winds. Down the east coast, from Rhodes to Lindos, are grim and replicated rows of cement fun palaces. Only south of Lindos do the crowds thin out, though hotel complexes and modern apartments are still much in evidence. The hilly interior and the wild west coast offer the visitor find a more authentic glimpse of a Greek island | |










