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Soaking up the heritage of Greece's sponge capital, Kalymnos.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
Byline: Thomas Swick
POTHIA, Greece _ Pothia napped in its hill-held hammock. Summer afternoon in an island capital. Shutters hid the contents of shops and, along the waterfront, regiments of empty cafe chairs stood in formation before a lineup of tethered sailboats. But the tourist information booth revealed the T-shirted half of a cheerful young woman (her effervescence a beacon in the surrounding slumber) who kindly gave me the name of her boss, a retired English teacher, who could tell me something about the island.
In Patmos, nobody had had anything good to say about Kalymnos, the fourth largest of Greece's far-flung Dodecanese islands. The ...
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