Christian Peltenburg Brechneff

Painter and an author

I am a painter and an author, living for almost 40 years now in New York and Connecticut. I owned a house on the island of Sifnos for well over 30 years. When I write about Sifnos now I am not totally objective, having written a book together with my husband Tim Lovejoy about my ...

Vasilis Papatheodorou

I come from Ancient Mantineia, outside Tripolis. The best holiday I have ever had in Greece was in the summer of, I think, 2004. I lived permanently in America and had come with a Greek childhood friend. We went to Serifos and Sifnos. We were on the beach all day, enjoying the sun, the incredible ...

The Discover Greece Team

Where are you right now? At your desk at work, having a sneaky search of the internet? Perhaps you’re commuting? Or maybe you’re just at home, putting off those chores one more time? Wherever you are, you should know one thing: Greece’s famous summer is happening right now. We want to change that, which is ...

Daphne Kapsali

Writer

The place that feels more like home to me in Greece is Sifnos, a small island in the West Cyclades, where I’ve spent almost every summer of my life.