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.
Rhodes most popular resorts, such as Faliraki, are now almost 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 Greek goatherds and fishing villages has come to the wrong place.
The most popular beaches on Rhodes lie along the northern and eastern 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 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 much wilder west coast offer the visitor find a more authentic glimpse of a Greek island, though the coast offers little in the way of beaches and tourist facilities
