Plaka Beach - Ladiko

This guide to Plaka Beach in Rhodes asks what it takes for a movie star to get an entire bay named after him, starting with a 1960 Hollywood shoot for The Guns of Navarone that brought actor Anthony Quinn to a quiet pebble cove then called Vagies. You'll hear the competing accounts of how Quinn came to claim the shoreline, and why locals stopped using the old name. It's a guide best heard with an eye on the sharp rocks underfoot, where regulars still wear shoes to wade in.