Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
I find your Greek web site amazing! I like getting hints from local people, these are more helpful than travel guides – Ilona Mersdorf DE
The awards for coasts, marinas and tourist boats have been announced by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (EEPP), National Operator of the " blue flag" International Program in our country. With 617 award-winning beaches, Greece once again ranks 2nd worldwide among 52 countries.
It is worth noting that, for the first time, the awards exceed 600, and that of the total of 52 countries participating in the program, Greece owns 15% of the award-winning beaches. The prefecture of Halkidiki emerged first in Greece, with 94 flags. The International Committee awarded 4,212 beaches, 710 marinas and 120 tourist boats around the world.
The new lift is on the north slope of the Acropolis promenade Dionysios Areo Pagitou and availible to those people with disabilities and the elderly. It goes to the top of the monument for access to the Acropolis and replaces the previous elevator.
The results are in and the online readers of Condé Nast Traveler UK Magazine (CN) have voted Greece the best country in the world in their Readers’ Travel Awards, which will be featured in CN’s October issue.
The honor of holding the number one country in the world for tourists is a great one and perhaps bitter-sweet for Greeks as it comes amidst several crises impacting the country.
More than 600,000 have voted for their best European destinations for the eleventh edition of the competition this year. Athens received 2nd Best ranking of the trendiest European destinations 2020.
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For Greek Island voyagers coordinating Greek island ferry schedules with accommodations both coming and going is dicey in high season June-Aug!
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What would Henry Miller or John Fowles do before evoking Greece on the printed page? I tell you what I do!
Down a sfee-nakee or two of Greek brandy, ouzo or raki with appetizing mezedes. Grilled Octopus if I can get it!
Because Greece has a long history of distillation, occasionally, counterfeit name-brand, imported liquor, called 'Bomba' maybe be foisted upon you. Drinking the local Greek distillations ensures authenticity.
Imbibers will gain new respect for the kefi inducing power of these ancient Greek cultures refined to time honored levels. Each domesticallity and island, in fact, often has it own local liquor.
Usually focused on indigenous flavours using various herbs such as the palette cleansing mastich of Chios Island. Gum Mastic from Chios is the original Chewing Gum.
Mastich (a bushy plant) refuses to be transplanted and wont grow anywhere else but on Chios.
Similarly also in ancient and not so ancient time, the wine, 'Malmsey' loaded from Monemvasia Peloponnese was highly prized by those affluent enough to drink it.
c.1400, type of strong, sweet white wine, from Provençal malmesie or Middle Dutch malemesye, both from Medieval Latin malmasia, from Medieval Greek Monembasia "Monemvasia," a town in the southern Peloponnesus that was an important center of wine production in the Middle Ages, literally "only one entrance," from monos "alone, only" + embasis "entering into," from en- "in" + basis "a going, a stepping, a base" .
Corinthian Currants and Grecian grapes as well as wheats and grains have been cultivated here from antiquity and which knowledge was part of the Elysian Mysteries. Lets preserve and honor this unique Hellenic heritage and in more ways than one and build on this tradition of innovative excellence and astuteness. Meanwhile....
>For those really planning a last minute visit and even hard boiled, confirmed, sun worshipping, island idolators, feverishly mapping their itineraries, Y'all know to stay within one island group. Keep things simple - avoid travel time.
This way you will receive free of charge, Oracle like insight using this nifty ferry schedules Greek islands route map.
There are 7 Greek Island groups. The Cycladic archipelago grouping is ideal. If you're planning a whirlwind tour of the islands in three days.... that's something best left to a travel professional who will be on top of things if need be. And hopefully talk you out of it. You know who you are!
Invariably flights and ferries get delayed and canceled due to high winds and other reasons.
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