Press
Skyros has been the subject of numerous features in the British and foreign press over the years. The very short extracts on this page represent only a tiny sample of the vast publicity given to an organisation, which does not even have a PR department.
"I had anticipated that a new-age fog of earnest escapism might cloud the air. My scepticism evaporated. They've got the balance right. A healthy realism prevails."
"Moonlight swims and impromptu discos."
January 1999
"Quite honestly, the best holiday of my life...I feel I made bonds that will last a lifetime because the friendships were based on getting to know the real me and vice versa."
January 1999
"A sense of community, a chance to try new activities... freedom from the tyranny of the business meeting, the mobile phone and the business plan."
October 1998
"I immediately fell in love with the place as everybody does... I kept thinking, 'I am an actor in A Midsummer Night's Dream; this is Arcadia, I want to live like this forever'."
September 1998
"'I want to marry you', he said. I think I screamed. My heart felt so huge I thought it might burst. We had a service on the (Atsitsa) beach and another when we returned to Britain, and we now have two children'."
August 1998
"We swam and sunbathed... with dolphins leaping and diving off the bow. At the end of two weeks, our group was as close as many friends become in a lifetime."
May 1998
"The island is beautiful and unspoilt but there seems to be some other Skyrian magic at work which inspires people to reveal what they are most vulnerable about and turn the experience into a healing one."
May 1998
"Though well supplied with bars and tavernas, the island is delightfully untouristy. A cluster of cube-like white houses with wooden balconies that blaze with bougainvillaea and geraniums, the town struggles over a hillside beneath the remains of an old fort. Most of its flagstone alleys are too narrow and steep for any traffic other than pedestrians and donkeys. An inspiring setting. This year’s teachers include Andrew Davies, Rachel Billington, Nell Dunn, D M Thomas and Sue Townsend."
May 1998
"The blossoming creativity is truly awe-inspiring. But it's only during the holiday climax, the famous Atsitsa cabaret, that we realise just how far we've come."
April 1998
"And so we went round, eating the baklava, drinking the wine and deciding life wasn't so bad after all when you were a writer on a Greek island."
November 1997