Methoni is a small seaside town on the southwest tip of the Peloponnese, dominated by a huge medieval castle that sticks out into the Ionian Sea and faces the Oinousses island group. Once a key stop on trade routes between Venice and the Levant, it was fought over by Spartans, Macedonians, Venetians, Ottomans, Egyptians, and the French. Today you get a quiet base of about a … [Read more...]