4 top musts of Corfu

An island that's actually Greek territory's northwesternmost point, Corfu is considered the lushest of the Greek islands, and has ended up with the usual holiday-isle mix of tourism-saturated beach pockets (popular especially with Brits) balanced by

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Bareboat charters in Greece

Greece witnessed its biggest tourist season ever in 2015, with more than 25 million tourists proving, that this southern European country remains a welcoming and safe place to enjoy a sailing holiday.

The best way to experience Greece is on a sailin

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4 awesome excursions from Athens

The Acropolis, the Plaka, and the rest of Greece‘s compelling capital are a treasure chest you could rummage through for days if not weeks on end. But just as important to this ancient country and culture are sites out in the hinterland, where the ai

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Greece's best beaches

Spring has sprung, and inevitably many of us are starting to think about summer travel? Beach season in Europe presents an embarassment of riches. I've decided to start a series covering the pick of the bunch in various countries. Since there are in

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Mykonos as gay travel magnet

Europe's travel riches are just as impressive when it comes to gay travel, with such an amazing variety of cultures, environments, climates, and experiences – all on the most liberal continent on the planet, thanks to the encouraging social (r)evolu

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8 days Athens - Mykonos - Santorini

8 days Athens - Mykonos - Santorini

Including private transfer + Ferry ticket + Hotel accommodation + Athen Sightseeing tours + English speaking assistance

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Unique tale of a fabulous resort on a fetching Greek island

The story of the Cyclades' Amorgos Island is a tale of beauty. Folklore has it that adjacent islands in the Cyclades told of a neighboring island where only beautiful women resided. This tale of omorfos (beauty) was about the relatively undiscovered

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Kos, a gem of the Dodecanese islands

Way east in the constellation of Greek islands - in fact, off the coast of Turkey, this small isle, just 25 by 5 miles in size, was in classical antiquity both a resort and a seat of learning which gave the world figures like Hippocrates. In the 21st

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Metochi Villas, a historic gem in rural Crete

If you've never visited the Greek island of Crete, you’re in for a lot of surprises. Travelers are so often astounded by the scenery, the diversity, and utter uniqueness of this Island. However surprising the geography may be however, the simplicity

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Gortyn, once Crete's mightiest city

The capital of the island of Crete during the Neolithic era was Phaestos. But the small settlement of Gortyn grew and grew, until it eventually became a city that eclipsed Phaestos.  During the Roman era, in the first century, it became capital of C

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Off the beaten path in the Greek Islands: a visit to Leros

 

Too many islands of Greece suffer from the effects of ‘kalimari and chips’ mass tourism. But, sometimes, you only need to take a short trip in a ferry or a kaiki to enter a different world altogether. The 29-square-mile isle of Leros is a good exam

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Beyond retsina: Greek wine comes of age

When I was 20, Jimmy Carter was President and I summered in Greece, sleeping on the beaches, drinking Retsina wine, gobbling Moussaka.  Retsina has been around for 2000 years, evolving from the practice of sealing wine casks with pine resin.  It is,

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In Crete, a festival in honor of firewater tsikoudia

Starting the first week of November, tsikoudia, a local spirit also known as raki, is the subject of yet another great Cretan festival in Voukolies, west Crete.

Tsikoudia or raki is a local Cretan strong distilled spirit with approximately 37% alcoh

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Hiking Samaria Gorge on Crete

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Discovering Ithaca, Greece, and Reinventing Family Holidays

Spring 1990 brought us to the small island of Ithaca, Greece, in recent times known for little but its sheer beauty, but in literature famed for its king and hero Odysseus who, Homer tells us, was the brains behind the winning wooden-horse idea that

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Greek Island-Hopping

There are at least 2,000 islands in Greece, only a few more than 200 of which are inhabited. And especially from May through October, lots of travelers love to hop from one to the other, with the help of ferry services that connect most, from the lar

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What makes Paros' Kolymbithres Beach so sexy?

The cradle of classical culture may boast some impressive old stone buildings indeed, but certain other old stones out on the Cyclades island of Paros provide one of the more memorable backdrops forGreece's other main draw: its beachy, sun-drenched i

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an a-maze-ing place in Crete

If you’ve got even a passing knowledge of history and/or Greek mythology, you’ve probably heard of the Minotaur, the monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, imprisoned in a labyrinth by Minos, king of Greece's island ofCrete, and fed

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the Dodecanese islands of Lipsi & Arki

From Hora, on Patmos, we could see the island of Lipsi on the horizon. It’s called the Island of Churches because there are 42 churches serving barely 700 souls. That’s one for every 16.6 (recurring) people on the island … although some of them are t

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How Do Greece's Financial Troubles Affect Visitors?

Translation: Why might this be a good time / terrible time  to visit Greece? http://bit.ly/d7xHB1

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