Paralia Faliraki

This guide to Paralia Faliraki in Rhodes follows the old story of pirate gold supposedly buried at the one spot where sunrise and sunset light strike the same grain of sand, and generations of locals who searched for it at dawn and dusk. You'll hear what they found instead, the thick sand once called Pachynammos, and how a small postwar coffee stall named after a district in Athens ended up giving the whole beach its name. It ends with both stories folded into the same stretch of shore.