My flight approached Rhodes barely two weeks after the terrifying scenes we all witnessed on TV.
Charred areas sit next to green landscape that miraculously escaped the fires (Credit: Gary Noakes)
I had genuinely expected to see the damage from the air, but there is nothing visible – and you must drive around 45 minutes south from the airport to witness any evidence of last month’s wildfires.
If you hire a car and venture into the mountainous central areas of Rhodes where the fires started, blackened tree trunks border some roads for a few kilometres.
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