q Search Video Rewards • Subscribe - 30 days free � Login 8 Register bt e egrapb HOME NEWS SPORT BUSINESS ALL SECTIONS = avel I Destinations Destinations Hotels Offers Holiday types City Beach Tours Cruise Ski Family Advice Luxur}ore v A Travel Destinations Europe Greece Peloponnese Articles I'm not a fan of resorts, but this Greek haven seduced me MARIELLA FROSTRUP ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® )@o ®® 18 JUNE 2018 • 4:20PM Kalama ta on the Ionian Sea CREDIT, 1srocK L ocal heroes may not grow on olive tr es but across the salt marshes south of Kalamata on the Peloponnese peninsula, Captain Vsilis is mentioned with a r verence reserved elsewhere r Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama. As local legend has it, this poor boy om the village of Diavolitsi leſt his b ug-infested backwater for Athens in hi s early teens, determined to make his fortune. A sojourn in the navy earned him his captain's stripes, aſter which he w nt on to buy his first cargo ship. The rest, as they say at Costa Navarino, the ambitious resort he went on to create, is history.