tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79006337527644353252024-03-13T14:32:55.598-07:00THESSALONIKA the LAND OF Alexander the GreatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-70126505698232404712022-11-15T10:12:00.004-08:002022-11-15T10:20:56.367-08:00Τα ταξίδια έχουν ακριβύνει: 8 κόλπα για να πληρώσετε λιγότερα<header class="entry-header" style="background-color: #f6efe9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px;"><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: kasaBbatoxbold, Georgia, serif; font-size: 44px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.025em; line-height: 52.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -8px; padding: 16px 15px 14px;"><p><img alt="Τα ταξίδια έχουν ακριβύνει: 8 κόλπα για να πληρώσετε λιγότερα" class="picture-main-post-image" height="480" src="https://www.moneyreview.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/travel_tourism_suitcase_airport_shutterstock-768x480.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: auto 16 / 10; background: rgb(234, 234, 234); border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 3px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 693px;" width="768" /> </p><br /></h1></header><div class="article_thumbnail_wrapper first-img" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="background-color: #f6efe9; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 15px 15px;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box;"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://www.moneyreview.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/travel_tourism_suitcase_airport_shutterstock-320x200.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source></picture><div class="caption_wrapper" style="border-bottom: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column-reverse;"><div class="featured_caption" itemprop="caption description" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; max-width: 693px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: right; width: 693px;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #f6efe9; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 15px 10px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Εάν το καλοσκεφτεί κανείς, μοιάζει άδικο: Την ώρα που αρχίσαμε να βγαίνουμε από τα lockdowns και να τολμάμε να ονειρευτούμε και πάλι ταξίδια, «χτύπησε» η ενεργειακή κρίση.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Ξαφνικά, το κόστος των αεροπορικών εισιτηρίων ή ενός οδικού ταξιδιού εκτινάσσεται, ενώ η αύξηση του πληθωρισμού και των επιτοκίων ανεβάζει τις τιμές των ξενοδοχείων κατά 10% ή και περισσότερο σε πολλούς δημοφιλείς προορισμούς, σύμφωνα με το CNN.</p><div class="nx-banner-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-top: -1px; width: 693px;"><div class="nxAds gAdCentered" id="nx_moneyreview_gr_Category_SB_1_mb" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: center; width: 693px;"><div id="nx_ad_Category_SB_1_mb" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Την ίδια στιγμή, οι συναλλαγματικές διαφορές μάλλον δεν βοηθούν. Εάν κάποιος ταξιδεύει εκτός συνόρων έχοντας στην τσέπη του δολάρια, τα πάντα στον πλανήτη μοιάζουν να είναι σε έκπτωση. Όμως για τους υπόλοιπους, όλα έχουν γίνει πιο ακριβά σε σχέση με πριν από έναν χρόνο.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Παρόλα αυτά, υπάρχουν τρόποι για να μπορέσει κανείς να ταξιδέψει με χαμηλότερο κόστος. Το CNN δίνει οκτώ συμβουλές.</p><div class="nx-banner-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-top: -1px; width: 693px;"><div class="nxAds gAdCentered" id="nx_moneyreview_gr_Category_SB_2_mb" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: center; width: 693px;"><div id="nx_ad_Category_SB_2_mb" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Βρείτε εισιτήρια σε προσφορά και μετά επιλέξτε τον προορισμό</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Αν είστε ανοικτοί σε νέες εμπειρίες, αφήστε τις προσφορές των αεροπορικών εταιρειών να σας οδηγήσουν στον προορισμό.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Πολλοί ταξιδιώτες επιλέγουν έναν προορισμό που θέλουν να επισκεφτούν, χωρίς να κάνουν πολλή έρευνα, και στη συνέχεια προσπαθούν να «χωρέσουν» τις τιμές που βλέπουν στο μπάτζετ τους. Μια πολύ καλύτερη στρατηγική είναι να διαπιστώσετε πού βρίσκονται τα φθηνά εισιτήρια και να διαλέξετε έναν προορισμό διακοπών αναλόγως.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Πηγαίντε στο Google Flights, συμπληρώστε το αεροδρόμιο της πόλης σας, επιλέξτε μια ημερομηνία και αφήστε κενό τον προορισμό. Μπορείτε να «παίξετε» με τις ημερομηνίες για να βρείτε τον καλύτερο χρόνο για να ταξιδέψετε.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Πηγαίνετε εκεί όπου το νόμισμά σας «πιάνει τόπο»</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Οι Ευρωπαίοι βλέπουν την αγοραστική δύναμη του ευρώ στο εξωτερικό να μειώνεται, όμως μπορούν ακόμα να βρουν χαμηλότερες τιμές από ό,τι πριν από ένα χρόνο σε κάποιους προορισμούς.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Μπορούν για παράδειγμα να επισκεφθούν την Τουρκία, να εξερευνήσουν την Παταγονία και το Μπουένος Άιρες στην Αργεντινή ή να πλεύσουν στον Νείλο σε ένα ταξίδι στην Αίγυπτο. Ελκυστικοί προορισμοί μπορεί επίσης να είναι, για τους ίδιους λόγους, η Ουγγαρία, το Λάος και η Νότια Κορέα.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Περιορίστε τις χρεώσεις σας στο ελάχιστο ενώ ταξιδεύετε</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Αποφύγετε τις χρεώσεις όταν χρησιμοποιείτε μια πιστωτική ή χρεωστική κάρτα στο εξωτερικό. Βεβαιωθείτε ότι έχετε τουλάχιστον μία πιστωτική κάρτα που δεν χρεώνει προμήθεια συναλλαγής στο εξωτερικό και ιδανικά χρησιμοποιήστε μια χρεωστική κάρτα που δεν χρεώνει για την ανάληψη στο ATM.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Παίξτε σωστά το παιχνίδι των ξενοδοχείων και των ενοικιαζόμενων</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Μερικές φορές τα ξενοδοχεία είναι φθηνότερα, αλλά άλλες φορές, τα ενοικιαζόμενα καταλύματα αποτελούν ευκαιρία. Για αυτό, κάντε την έρευνά σας.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Εξετάστε κάθε κόστος: Χρειάζεστε πραγματικά μια κουζίνα στο δωμάτιό σας; Σε κάποιους προορισμούς, όπως είναι η Ταϊλάνδη και το Βιετνάμ, μπορεί να είναι φθηνότερο να τρώτε έξω σε κάθε γεύμα παρά να μαγειρεύετε μόνοι σας.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Ό,τι και εάν επιλέξετε, δώστε μεγάλη προσοχή στα σχόλια των προηγούμενων επισκεπτών, ειδικά σε υπηρεσίες όπως το Airbnb και το Booking.com.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Γίνετε δημιουργικοί με το κόστος των μεταφορικών</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Ο πολλαπλασιασμός των αεροπορικών εταιρειών χαμηλού κόστους σημαίνει ότι τα ταξίδια μέσα σε συγκεκριμένες περιοχές ή σε χώρες με έντονο εγχώριο ανταγωνισμό στις αερομεταφορές, έχουν γίνει αρκετά φθηνότερα.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Επομένως, ίσως σας συμφέρει καλύτερα να κλείσετε μία πτήση μεγάλων αποστάσεων προς ένα μέρος και στη συνέχεια να πάρετε μια low cost αεροπορική εταιρεία (ή στην Ευρώπη, ένα τρένο) για να φτάσετε στην χώρα όπου πραγματικά θέλατε να πάτε.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Ψάξτε πέραν της πιο προφανούς διαδρομής.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Φύγετε από τα τουριστικά μέρη την ώρα του φαγητού</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Αν θέλετε να φάτε ό,τι τρώνε οι ντόπιοι και να πληρώσετε ό,τι πληρώνουν εκείνοι, φύγετε από την περιοχή όπου βρίσκονται όλοι οι τουρίστες και ξεκινήστε την εξερεύνηση. Εάν απλά περπατήσετε για 15 λεπτά προς οποιαδήποτε κατεύθυνση ή κάνετε μερικές στάσεις με το μετρό, αυτό μπορεί να κάνει τεράστια διαφορά σε οποιαδήποτε πόλη γεμάτη τουρίστες.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Πιθανότατα θα ξοδέψετε λιγότερα και θα απολαύσετε περισσότερα αυθεντικά γεύματα και εμπειρίες.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Κατεβάστε μια εφαρμογή όπως το Google Translate στο τηλέφωνό σας για να μπορείτε να αποκρυπτογραφήσετε το μενού, σε ένα εστιατόριο που κανονικά δεν απευθύνεται σε ξένους.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Αποφύγετε την high season</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Σίγουρα δεν είναι τόσο εύκολο να αποφύγετε την high season εάν είστε μια οικογένεια που ταξιδεύει ανάλογα με τα σχολικά προγράμματα, αλλά η high season δεν είναι η ίδια σε όλα τα μέρη.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Οι διακοπές στο νότιο ημισφαίριο είναι σε διαφορετική εποχή του χρόνου από το βόρειο, ενώ η κίνηση σε ορισμένους τροπικούς προορισμούς είναι πιο χαμηλή το καλοκαίρι επειδή υπάρχει περισσότερη βροχή.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Δημοφιλείς προορισμοί όπως το Μεξικό, το Μπελίζ και η Νότια Αφρική έχουν λιγότερο κόσμο μεταξύ Ιουνίου και Σεπτεμβρίου σε σχέση με το πρώτο τρίμηνο του έτους.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Η ιδανική περίοδος για πολλά δημοφιλή μέρη είναι όταν ο καιρός είναι ακόμα ευχάριστος αλλά οι μεγάλες μάζες λείπουν, όπως τον Μάιο στην Καραϊβική ή τον Οκτώβριο στην Ευρώπη.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: KASAntenna07Bold; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Λειτουργήστε σαν «χάκερ» για δωρεάν δωμάτια και εισιτήρια</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.5px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; word-break: break-word;">Τι κερδίζετε όταν χρεώνετε αγορές στην πιστωτική σας κάρτα; Οι περισσότερες αεροπορικές εταιρείες και αλυσίδες ξενοδοχείων διαθέτουν μια κάρτα επιβράβευσης μέσω Mastercard, Visa ή American Express, με την οποία μπορείτε να κερδίσετε μια δωρεάν πτήση ή μερικές διανυκτερεύσεις σε ξενοδοχείο μόνο από το μπόνους εγγραφής.</p><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 387px; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 650px; overflow: hidden; transition: height 0s ease 0s;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: GothamGreekBook; font-size: 17px;">Στη συνέχεια, οι πόντοι συνεχίζουν να μαζεύονται καθώς χρησιμοποιείτε την κάρτα. 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box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">In an interview on Bloomberg TV, he said that in the short term, Greece will extend its use of coal for two to three years, but has not given up on plans to move away from pollutant fossil fuels.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">“We want to become a clean exporter of green electricity in central Europe,” he said. “We are in discussions with the Egyptians. We are promoting a very ambitious 3 gigawatt cable that will connect Africa to Greece and, of course, to have a 3 gigawatt cable, we need 10 gigawatts of installed renewable energy.”</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">TOVIMA.GR</p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-37166622734797988002022-06-05T09:54:00.002-07:002022-06-05T09:54:34.471-07:00Watch: Greece’s New Tourism Campaign, “You Will Want to Stay Forever!”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="490" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JgJGX3ldxOg" width="589" youtube-src-id="JgJGX3ldxOg"></iframe></div><br /><h1 class="single-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 5px;"><br /></h1><h2 class="post-subtitle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;">A new summer tourism campaign is supported by the Onassis Foundation "warns" tourists to think twice before visiting Greece.</h2><hr class="the-line" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: initial; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 0px; margin: 20px auto 20px 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 50px;" /><div class="article-meta-box" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p class="meta-box" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-weight: 700;">think twice</span> as once they’re in Greece, they may want to stay forever.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">That’s the central theme in a new campaign for Greek tourism, launched by the Greek National Tourism Organization on Monday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">A video for the “Greece: You will want to say forever” campaign features an Austrian man, Otto, who <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">tells his story of ending up in Greece</span> to a backdrop of beautiful images from the Greek islands.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">The new summer tourism campaign is supported by the Onassis Foundation and the promotional video was produced by Ogilvy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This article was previously published at <a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1185600/new-tourism-campaign-launched-greece-you-will-want-to-stay-forever/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ekathimerini.com</a>.</em></p></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-7910183032829211912022-05-16T02:54:00.003-07:002022-05-16T02:54:44.408-07:00Mitsotakis-Biden talks: Greek-Turkish relations, the war in Ukraine, wayward Turkey’s new role in NATO<p> </p><h1 class="entry-title black-c" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #121212; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 3.4rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">Mitsotakis-Biden talks: Greek-Turkish relations, the war in Ukraine, wayward Turkey’s new role in NATO</h1><h2 class="article-summary" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #121212; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1.9rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 40px;">The talks come amid heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean, with an exponential increase in violations of Greek national airspace, and Ankara's return to the fold.</h2><div class="content-single-image" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="post_image_l" data-caption="" data-fancybox="images" href="https://www.tanea.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/WHITEHOUSE4.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: table; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-size: 10px; height: auto; margin: 2.5rem 0px 0px; max-width: 860px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 40px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 655px;"><div id="videopwp" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; height: 367px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">Had the scheduled talks between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Joe Biden at the White House today occurred before the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine, the political context as far as Greece-Turkey relations, which has topped the agenda at meetings between Greek and American leaders for decades, the terrain would have been quite different, or at least less complex.</span></div><div class="internal_text_ο" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 2rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.tanea.gr/2022/05/13/greece/oi-12-ousies-pou-vrethikan-stin-tzortzina/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.6rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Οι 12 ουσίες που βρέθηκαν στην Τζωρτζίνα</a></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Ankara’s years of efforts to build exceptionally close ties with Moscow, strongly facilitated by Donald Trump’s relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s extremely close relationship with Putin, had pushed Washington’s relations with Ankara to a nadir.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The Putin-Erdogan relationship was fuelled by the strong elective affinities between the two authoritarian, neo-imperialist, revisionist leaders, and culminated in a close military cooperation with a $2.5bn deal in 2017 for the procurement of Russian S-400 missile systems, stirring intense consternation in Washington and drawing the ire of the departments of defence and state and of Congress, which has long been fuming. Erdogan eventually went as far as to respond to extreme pressures with threats to buy even more.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The unprecedented procurement by a NATO member-state of one of Russia’s most advanced weapons systems resoundingly violated a strong taboo in place since the founding of the Alliance and was treated as a fundamental threat to NATO, but Erdogan steadfastly thumbed his nose at intense US remonstrances and tough sanctions.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Turkey has no real friends in Washington, but it does have bitter opponents, the most prominent of which is the Chairman of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, Robert Menendez, who has staunchly supported the strategic Greece-Cyprus-Israel defence cooperation, which will be central to tomorrow’s talks, as will energy cooperation, made even more pressing and urgent by the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">One key indication of the great durability of the Russo-Turkish relationship was that it survived and thrived after a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M at the Turkey-Syria border when it extremely briefly entered Turkish airspace, an event that in previous years would almost certainly have triggered a major diplomatic even military crisis.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">In the last three years, Erdogan’s stubborn and persistent refusal to give up the S-400s set in motion a series of tough US sanctions. In a strong slap from Washington, Turkey in April, 2021, was kicked out the fifth generation F-35 warplanes co-production programme (Turkish suppliers produced dozens of parts of the engine), in which it had already invested 1.4bn dollars.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">The war that changes (almost) everything</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">When Prime Minister Mitsotakis steps into the Oval Office tomorrow he will have to navigate and find a common roadmap with the US president regarding the future of the extraordinarily complex nexus of Greece-Turkey-US relations, which has been fundamentally altered by the Biden administration’s strategy in the Russia-Ukraine war.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">With little consultation with its allies, Washington has set as its goal the overall weakening of the Russian armed forces, as Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin explicitly stated in Ukraine recently.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Unless the situation bears out strong concerns over the prospect of a WWII, the conflict will remain at the level of a new Cold War, very likely returning Turkey to its crucial role as a buffer that it played in the many decades of the original one.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Erdogan has exploited with more than a touch of cunning the excruciating dilemma that confronts all of America’s NATO and European partners more broadly, seeking to exact as Turkish diplomacy has always done (with the centuries-old legacy of the Sublime Porte) the greatest possible returns for making what is essentially an ineluctable choice, being weened off of its tight embrace with Russia and balancing relations between two countries with which it has long maintained very close relations – Russia and Ukraine.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">In a world that the US president has framed as an arena in which good is in an existential battle with evil - which is to say democracy versus revisionist, expansionist authoritarianism – Turkey’s choice is clear, but it will not come without quid pro quos, and that is what raises increasing concerns in Athens that US concessions may touch upon Greek vital interests, most notably in the Eastern Mediterranean, with its huge hydrocarbons deposits.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Sort it out at the negotiating table</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Though Washington certainly does not accept Turkey’s pretence of being the predominant power in the Eastern Mediterranean, and has over the last years duly noted Ankara’s major provocations against Greece and Turkey’s sweeping challenges to Athens’ Exclusive Economic Zone in the region (the two countries came to the brink of a full-fledged military clash in July, 2020, defused with EU and NATO intervention), its basic line is unswerving – that the two neighbours and fellow NATO allies must sit alone at the negotiating table and sort things out, with a delimitation of their EEZs, culminating in a deal that may not align precisely with the UN’s 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, to which Turkey is not a signatory.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Mitsotakis’ strong cards, Turkish provocations</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">For his part, Mitsotakis is theoretically and in fact in a position of substantial advantage.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The US and Greece have over quite some time often publicly declared that their relations are at an unprecedentedly good level, a conviction predicated upon and completely borne out by the Greek Parliament’s ratification this week of the amended, bilateral Mutual Defence Cooperation Agreement, which greatly expands the US military presence in Greece, including an upgrade of the globally crucial Souda Bay, Crete, naval and air base, and the establishment of a base in the strategic port city of Thrace Alexandroupolis, the capital of the Evros border region, that has drawn the ire of Turkey, not only due to its relative geographical proximity.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">For decades, Ankara has successfully worked to increase its strong influence over the Muslim minority of Western Thrace, with efforts to Turkify the ethnically Pomak and Roma elements of the minority, of which the majority is of ethnic Turkish origin. Some analysts fear that an increasingly revisionist world might lead the supremely revisionist Erdogan to push for some type of autonomy for the Muslim minority (as the 1923 Lausanne Treaty recognises it, though Ankara has always called it Turkish).</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Heightened Aegean, Mediterranean tensions backdrop of talks</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The Biden-Mitsotakis talks come at a time of heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean. There has been an exponential, quantitatively and qualitatively, rise in violations of Greek national airspace since the beginning of the year, with a peak in late April – with over 150 violations over two days including flights over large inhabited islands such as Rhodes, Samos, and Kalymnos, among others.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">That led Athens to respond by suspending bilateral talks on military confidence-building measures (decided during a cordial meeting between Mitsotakis and Erdogan οn 13 March in Istanbul) a move that came straight on the heels of Greek foreign ministry general secretary Themistoklis Demiris twice summoning the Turkish ambassador to the ministry to hand him two strongly- worded, consecutive demarches underlining that the violations trample over international law, endanger civil aviation, and undermine efforts at rapprochement.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Over the last year, Turkey has constantly and vociferously demanded that Greece demilitarise its Aegean islands, under the terms of the 1923 Lausanne Agreement, while Athens underlines Turkey’s longstanding official threat of war against Greece, its right to defend itself against Ankara’s huge Aegean Army (with NATO’s largest landing force, situated on the coast of Anatolia a stone’s throw away from the islands) and Turkey’s 47-year occupation of the Republic of Cyprus, since 2004 an EU member state.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Turkey’s anger, and the accompanying scathing criticism of Greece in the country’s largely controlled media, was spurred mainly by a 2.3bn euro Greece-France military procurement deal and strategic defence cooperation agreement signed in September, 2021.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The two countries already had signed a deal to for Greece to acquire 18 French Rafale fighter jets (12 used, six of which were delivered in January) and on 24 March finally signed the deal for the procurement of three Belharra frigates, that hugely bolster the Hellenic Navy’s capabilities with the most advanced technology, as its current ones are decades old.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">The bilateral strategic defence cooperation agreement includes a mutual defence pact requiring each of the parties to intervene if the territorial integrity of the other is threatened by a third country (obviously Turkey), though it is at least highly uncertain that this includes the critical hot spot, Greece’s EEZ in the Eastern Mediterranean.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Greek F-35 deal, F-16s to Ankara, Turkey sole NATO member with no sanctions against Russia</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Though the procurement deal with France clearly did not thrill Washington, as evidenced by the fact that at the time of the signing it claimed it was not aware of details, Athens in November, 2021 decided to apply and jump on board the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets programme, from which Turkey was removed, a process that is moving forward, as Jane’s reported in February.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">“Greece will be part of the F-35 programme. I think that's clearly understood by the government, by the Hellenic Air Force, but also by the US government. You've heard expressions to that effect not just from me but from senior officials of the State Department,” the report in the defence industry bible quoted then US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt as saying.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Ensuring progress on that deal will no doubt be high on the agenda of both sides in Washington as will the reported intention of the US to sell Turkey a large batch of F-16s, a prospect that emerged after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ankara’s efforts to project the image of a well-behaved partner returning in earnest to the NATO fold and of a peacemaker, hosting two, alas ultimately fruitless, rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks, one in Istanbul and another in Antalya.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Mitsotakis and main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras last week clashed in Parliament over reports of the sale F-16s sale, with the PM declaring it to be “a lie”.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Tsipras, who said he will dismiss the reports only if President Biden publicly denies them, has repeatedly underlined that Turkey is the sole member of the Alliance that steadfastly refuses, with no repercussions, to enforce any sanctions against Russia. Its only move was to close the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to all warships on 28 February, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">Mitsotakis is certain to make clear his government’s concerns over the US bolstering a long wayward NATO ally that has greatly escalated its concrete military threats against Greece, both in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">On May 7, Turkey’s <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hurriyet Daily News</em> reported that unnamed US lawmakers see a prospect of Turkey making a six billion dollar purchase of 40 Block 70 F-16 fighter jets and approximately 80 modernisation kits to upgrade its existing fleet.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; outline: 0px;">Mitsotakis first Greek PM to address joint session of US Congress</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">At the invitation of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be the first Greek Prime Minister to address a joint session of the US Congress, in which Greece enjoys strong support and Turkey is still viewed with well-grounded suspicions, a singular honour that his government has understandably touted, noting that Erdogan, despite persistent and strenuous efforts, has yet to be received by the US president at the White House.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;">In his address, the Greek prime minister is certain to underline that US-Greece ties are the closest and best ever, that Greece’s crucial geostrategic position makes it a pillar of stability in a very troubled region, that Athens seeks good neighbourly relations and talks with Turkey but only on the basis of international law and never in the shadow of gunboat diplomacy, that the Greece-Cyprus-Israel strategic military alliance contributed greatly to regional stability, and that Greece has firmly positioned itself on “the right side of history”, as he is wont to say, by offering palpable support to Ukraine, with military and humanitarian aid, as it fends of Russia’s unprovoked and barbaric invasion, which has already produced a long list of war crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px;"> www.tanea.gr</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-17150097734437154582021-09-21T04:44:00.002-07:002021-09-21T04:44:40.005-07:00Thessaloniki / a city of Monuments / a mosaic of cultures by UNESCO <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Meet the 15 sites in Thessaloniki on UNESCO map.</span></h2><div class="post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; min-width: 50%; padding: 64px 126.312px; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Walls</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Surrounded by walls and castles and yet extroverted, Thessaloniki has written its history on the walls, sometimes even on the inscriptions preserved in various parts of the fortifications, witnesses successive repairs and reconstructions in the course of the centuries that followed. From the sea side, the city was protected by a low sea wall.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1131" sizes="(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1-teixi-thessalonikis.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1-teixi-thessalonikis.jpg 950w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1-teixi-thessalonikis-600x383.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/1-teixi-thessalonikis-768x490.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eptapyrgio</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Northeast of the city walls, the highest and most privileged spot of the Acropolis, Eptapyrgio is also known with its Ottoman name “Yedi Kule”. It consists of a Byzantine fortress composed of ten towers and of the new buildings of the prison, which were transferred in 1989. The charming complex of different construction phases of the Early Christian-Early Byzantine period until the Turkish occupation is open today to visitors and hosts cultural events.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1132" sizes="(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2-eptapyrgio.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2-eptapyrgio.jpg 958w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2-eptapyrgio-600x375.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2-eptapyrgio-768x479.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rotonda</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The circumcenter domed building of the 4th century has been for many people the most important monument of the city, which this year has officially opened its doors to visitors. Rotunda axis was the terminal point of a processional route linking the triumphal arch of Galerius with the palace complex, which has been excavated south of Egnatia Street. Rotunda was initially intended to be the mausoleum of Galerius or the temple of Zeus or of Kaveires. In early During Christian times it was transformed into a Christian church with excellent quality mosaics. The preserved paintings are of the 5th century.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1133" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3-rotonta.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3-rotonta.jpg 900w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3-rotonta-600x438.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3-rotonta-768x561.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Osios David (Latomou Monastery)</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The visitor will find the small church at the Upper Town (Ano Poli) at the end of Aghias Sophias Street. It was built in the late 5th century at the type of a cross inscribed in a square niche in the east. Today, only the eastern half of the original plan survives. The church is especially known for the mosaic with the vision of the Prophet Ezekiel in the niche, one of the major mosaic works of the early Christian period.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1134" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/4-osios-david-moni-latomou.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saint Sophia Cathedral</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The temple of the God’s Wisdom was built in the 8th century on the place of a large early Christian basilica. Cathedral of the City (1246-1523 / 24), which became a mosque, it offers visitors with an exquisite mosaic decoration inside, while its icons belong to the most important painting sets of the Iconoclasm period (780-788). At the same time Ascension of Jesus on the dome was also created.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1135" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5-naos-agias-sofias.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5-naos-agias-sofias.jpg 800w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5-naos-agias-sofias-600x375.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/5-naos-agias-sofias-768x480.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Basilica of Agios Dimitrios</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />North of the ancient market, the church was built on the ruins of the Roman bath where Saint Dimitrios was imprisoned and killed. Prefect of Illyricum Leontius erected there a large basilica, during the 5th century. After it was burned, around 620, a five-aisled basilica was built with rich paintings and marble decorations and mosaics. The church burned down in the fire in 1917 and was restored again.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1136" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6-agios-dimitrios.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6-agios-dimitrios.jpg 940w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6-agios-dimitrios-600x374.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6-agios-dimitrios-768x479.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Crypt</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Beneath the church of Aghios Dimitrios, the visitor shall find the crypt where the latter was imprisoned, martyred and buried. During the late Byzantine years, holy water and myrrh was springing from the fountain of the Saint. During the Ottoman rule, the area was forgotten and abandoned, to be detected due to the fire of 1917. The space hosts a permanent exhibition of early Christian and Byzantine sculptures, coins and ceramics.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1137" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-crypte.png" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-crypte.png 1280w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-crypte-600x344.png 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-crypte-768x440.png 768w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/7-crypte-1200x687.png 1200w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 150px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aghios Efthimios Chapel</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The church is full of wall paintings inside, painted in 1303 at the expense of protostrator Michael Tarchaneiotes Glavas and his wife Maria. The paintings, an artwork of a gifted artist, convey the high aesthetics and dynamics of Palaiologan regeneration.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Panagia Acheiropoietos Basilica</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In the city center, on Aghias Sophias Street, the visitor can find the Great Church of the Virgin Mary. Inside the church stand the wonderful architectural sculptures.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1138" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9-panagia-axeiropoieitou.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9-panagia-axeiropoieitou.jpg 940w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9-panagia-axeiropoieitou-600x415.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/9-panagia-axeiropoieitou-768x531.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Church of Panagia Chalkeon</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />South of the ancient market, is the church of Virgin Mary. It is a precisely dated monument, with an inscription on the marble lintel of the west entrance.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1139" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/10-panagia-chalkeon.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/10-panagia-chalkeon.jpg 940w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/10-panagia-chalkeon-600x406.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/10-panagia-chalkeon-768x520.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Byzantine bath</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />On the outskirts of the Upper Town, on Theotokopoulou Street is the only public Byzantine bath preserved today in Thessaloniki. It is a small building, which probably dates back to the 13th century and maintains all necessary for a bath spaces: anteroom, warm and hot room and pool.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1140" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11-vyzantino-loutro-2016-1.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11-vyzantino-loutro-2016-1.jpg 700w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/11-vyzantino-loutro-2016-1-600x403.jpg 600w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Church of St. Panteleimon</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At the junction of Arrianou and Iasonidou Streets, at a short distance from the Arch of Galerius and the Rotunda, is the Byzantine church of St. Panteleimon. A few examples have been preserved from its original wall paintings.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1141" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/12-filename-panteleimon3.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Church of the Holy Apostles</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At the beginning of Olympou street, and very close to the west Walls is the church of the Holy Apostles. Inside, extraordinary mosaic decoration is saved, characteristic of the last period of Palaiologan art.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1142" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/13-naos-agion-apostolon.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/13-naos-agion-apostolon.jpg 940w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/13-naos-agion-apostolon-600x408.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/13-naos-agion-apostolon-768x522.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Aghios Nikolaos Orfanos Church</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It is located in the Upper Town, between the streets Herodotus and Aghiou Pavlou, close to the east Walls. Its masterpiece frescoes are one of the most complete sets of paintings preserved in Thessaloniki.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1143" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/14-orfanos-1-big.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/14-orfanos-1-big.jpg 1000w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/14-orfanos-1-big-600x450.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/14-orfanos-1-big-768x576.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">St. Catherine Church</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Above Olympiados Street, at the foot of the Upper Town and at the confluence of Oedipus and Tsamadou streets, near the northwest Walls the visitor shall find the church of St. Catherine, a former Byzantine Catholic monastery. The church dates back in the late 13th – early 14th century.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1144" sizes="(max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/15-agia-aikaterini.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/15-agia-aikaterini.jpg 834w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/15-agia-aikaterini-600x386.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/15-agia-aikaterini-768x494.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Church of the Savior’s Transfiguration</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At the junction of Egnatia and Palaion Patron Germanou, is the temple of the Savior. It was built after 1340 probably as a funerary chapel Byzantine monastery and was originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1145" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/16-sotiros.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/16-sotiros.jpg 640w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/16-sotiros-600x450.jpg 600w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vlatadon Monastery</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The only monastery of the city serving as today is located just outside the Acropolis walls, on the Acropolis Street.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><img alt="" class="wp-image-1146" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" src="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17-vlatadon.jpg" srcset="https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17-vlatadon.jpg 940w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17-vlatadon-600x400.jpg 600w, https://bestofthessaloniki.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/17-vlatadon-768x512.jpg 768w" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 500px;" /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font: 400 18px var(--fontA); margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Prophet Elias Chapel</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The temple of Prophet Elias is on Olympiados street, at its junction with Prophet Elias Street, on an outcropping natural rock. The temple is unique in Thessaloniki for its architectural type.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-shadow: rgba(36, 36, 15, 0.35) 0px 0px 1px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Bague, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">https://bestofthessaloniki.com/</span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-14684321968373304342021-08-21T12:03:00.004-07:002021-08-21T12:13:30.169-07:00Travelling to Greece in Summer 2021: Here’s What You Need to Know<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tfC0F-6qB24/YSFPtQaWFUI/AAAAAAAAd98/u0kJ9mnEfVMq1hDMtLLaxSvcGaW0Z3A6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/greece-more-than-a-destination.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" height="405" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tfC0F-6qB24/YSFPtQaWFUI/AAAAAAAAd98/u0kJ9mnEfVMq1hDMtLLaxSvcGaW0Z3A6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w648-h405/greece-more-than-a-destination.jpg" width="648" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;">To anyone dreaming of a seaside escape, visiting ancient monuments, or numerous islands, these dreams are now possible as Greece has opened its borders for visitors since May 14.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">After a lockdown period, Greece has reopened for some tourists without obliging them to self-isolate upon arrival in the country. Such an announcement was made back in April when the latter <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-lifts-quarantine-requirement-for-eu-countries-some-third-countries/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">lifted the quarantine requirement for European Union Member States and several other third countries</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Regardless of the COVID-19 outbreak, the authorities of Greece have continually called for measures that would enable the safe reopening of the travel and tourism sector in a bid to prevent further financial losses and revive the industry by the summer season.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nonetheless, the country continues to keep in place stringent entry restrictions for other countries due to the pandemic situation.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">Who Is Allowed to Travel to Greece This Summer?</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m0CBeOLb1qA/YSFQQRODKFI/AAAAAAAAd-E/KhV0hhjdKuQhtPqQmtPVXru3-6D-oPfeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Depositphotos_72141499_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="442" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m0CBeOLb1qA/YSFQQRODKFI/AAAAAAAAd-E/KhV0hhjdKuQhtPqQmtPVXru3-6D-oPfeQCLcBGAsYHQ/w665-h442/Depositphotos_72141499_original.jpg" width="665" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-reopens-its-borders-to-international-travellers/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Since May 14, Greece has opened its borders for persons all over the world wishing to visit the country during the summer season</a> in a bid to help the country’s travel and tourism sector recover from the loss suffered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Currently, Greece allows restriction-free entry to all arrivals from European Union and Schengen Area countries, including Andorra, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican, and Monaco.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Besides the EU/Schengen Area countries,</span><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/eu-list-of-epidemiologically-safe-countries-amid-covid-19/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greece welcomes travellers from other countries as well that have recently reported low infection rates of COVID-19</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Thus, arrivals from the following third countries are permitted to enter Greece:</span></p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Albania</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Armenia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Australia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Azerbaijan</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bahrein</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Belarus</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bosnia and Herzegovina</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Brunei</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Canada</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">China</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Israel</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Japan</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jordan</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kosovo</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kuwait</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lebanon</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moldova</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Montenegro</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Zealand</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">North Macedonia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Qatar</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Russia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saudi Arabia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Serbia</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Singapore</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">South Korea</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Turkey</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">United Arab Emirates</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ukraine</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">United Kingdom</span></li></ul><div class="td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-right" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 21px; margin-top: 6px;"><span class="td-adspot-title" face="Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "open sans", "helvetica neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Previously, it was announced that since July 8,</span><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-allows-restriction-free-entry-for-arrivals-from-5-other-third-countries/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, and Moldova would be added to the list of third countries that are permitted quarantine-free entry to Greece.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Just recently,</span><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-allows-restriction-free-entry-for-arrivals-from-5-other-third-countries/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greece authorities noted that Russian passengers travelling to Greece will now be required to provide a negative COVID-19 test result and take another test upon their arrival.</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Arrivals from any country outside the EU/Schengen Area or any third country that was not mentioned above are not allowed to enter Greece.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Greece has also opened its borders for travellers from the United States after they remained banned for more than a year. Travellers from the US will be subject to the same requirements as citizens of other countries that are permitted entry.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-extends-entry-ban-for-arrivals-from-majority-of-third-countries-until-june-7/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Greece has been extending the entry ban for third-country nationals for several months now.</a></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">Greece’s Entry Restrictions</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Before entering Greece, everyone is required to fill in the Passenger Locator Form no later than the day before arrival. The form requires detailed information on passengers’ departure location, the duration of previous stays in other countries, as well as the address of their stay while in Greece.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">All persons entering Greece must submit a negative COVID-19 test result obtained within 72 hours of arrival in Greece.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In addition, travellers from countries listed above as well as those travelling from an EU/Schengen Area country are allowed to enter Greece as long as they provide one of the following acceptable documents:</p><div class="td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-right" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; float: right; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 21px; margin-top: 6px;"><span class="td-adspot-title" face="Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "segoe ui", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "open sans", "helvetica neue", sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; display: block; font-size: 10px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;">- Advertisement -</span><div data-aa-additional-non-h-b-sizes="["fluid"]" data-aa-adunit="/339474670/SchengenVisaInfo/BTF_InContent2" data-aa-device="["desktop","tablet","mobile"]" data-aa-lazy-loaded="false" data-aa-refresh-viewable="10" data-aa-sizes="[[300,250],[336,280]]" data-aaad="true" data-google-query-id="CKPWl9zmwvICFfruuwgdlhILWw" data-status="rendered" id="a574e034-b4bc-4e8b-95ae-b9a5c2fd3b13" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">A certificate proving vaccination against the COVID-19:</span> at least 14 days should have passed since the second dose of the vaccine was taken to be permitted entry. The vaccines approved in Greece include Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca-Oxford, Novavax, Johnson & Johnson, Sinovac Biotech, Sputnik V, Cansino Biologics, and Sinopharm.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">>></span><a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-has-highest-number-in-the-world-of-covid-19-vaccines-recognised-for-travel/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greece Has Highest Number in the World of COVID-19 Vaccines Recognised for Travel</i></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The vaccination certificate is recognised as long as it is issued by a public authority of each country in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Russian.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The vaccination certificate must include the traveller’s name, the type of vaccine that has been administered, the COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) injected, and the date of administration.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Entry of tourists in Greece is not subject to vaccination. Presenting a vaccination certificate greatly facilitates the procedures upon arrival. However, in no case is a vaccination or antibodies certificate considered a ‘passport’,”</em> the Government clarified.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Proof of a negative COVID-19 test result:</span> the test should not be older than 72 hours when entering Greece. Children under the age of six are not required to undergo testing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">A certificate that proves recovery from the COVID-19 in the past nine months:</span> the recovery certificate should be issued by a public authority or a certified laboratory. Travellers can also provide a previous positive PCR test result, performed at least two months before arrival and no later than nine months before arrival.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">All the three above-mentioned certificates must contain the key identification information, including the holder’s full name, which must match the name on the passport or any other recognised travel document.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Foreigners may also provide a Digital COVID-19 Passport to be permitted entry to the country, either in paper or electronic form, <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">SchengenVisaInfo.com</a> reports.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Regardless of the certificate that travellers possess upon arrival, they may be subject to mandatory random health screening drawn from a targeted sampling system, which means they need to undergo a rapid antigen test. In case someone refuses to cooperate, the authorities have the right to reject entry into the country.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Furthermore, if the random test result turns out to be positive, travellers and their companions will be accommodated in quarantine hotels, where they will undergo further health checks. They must stay quarantined for at least ten days, and the expenses will be covered by Greek authorities.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">Entering Greece Through Land, Air, or Sea</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Non-essential land border arrivals are allowed through Promachonas, Ormenio, Evzonoi, Niki, Nymfaia, Doirani, Kipi, Kristallopigi, Kakavia, Exohi, and Kastanies border crossing points on a 24 hours basis.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">However, it has been noted that there is a limit of 1500 passengers per week in Kipi and Kastanies border crossing points.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As for those who plan to use public transportation during their stay in Greece, they are obliged to wear a protective mask at all times when in public places, including here airports as well.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Passengers are allowed to enter Greece through all international airports. However, non-EU/Schengen Area citizens are strongly advised to use direct flights to Greece in order to avoid stop-over country requirements.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">What to Expect When Visiting Greece?</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Archaeological sites are open to visitors across Greece, with a limit of up to 20 persons at the same time. During their archaeological visits, everyone must wear a face mask and respect the physical distancing measures.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Restaurants, cafes, and bars are open as well. However, service is provided at outdoor spaces only, and the maximum number of persons allowed to sit at one table is six. Those waiting for a table must keep their mask on at all times.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Moreover, theatres, concerts, and other types of performances are also allowed, but only with a 75 per cent capacity in open spaces.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For those wishing to spend some time at the beach, the authorities highlight that only up to 80 persons are allowed for 1000 m2 of the beach area. Furthermore, only two persons can use the same umbrella, except for families.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The public transport will only operate with 65 per cent capacity, whereas tour and sightseeing buses will operate at 85 per cent capacity.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Currently, Greece has a national curfew in place from 1:30 am until 5 am, meaning that tourists can stay outside even after midnight.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If the infection rates continue to remain steady, Greece is set to abolish the curfew entirely during July.</span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">Travel Insurance for Greece – A Must When Travelling During COVID-19 Pandemic</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It is highly suggested that all persons who wish to travel to Greece or any other country during this summer purchase an extended travel insurance package that covers epidemic and pandemic situations.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The insurance makes sure that in case the trip gets cancelled due to the COVID-19 situation, most of the money that is spent to make reservations is turned back.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">You can buy medical travel insurance for Greece for a very reasonable cost from <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/insurance/axa" id="AXA" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">AXA Assistance</a>, <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/insurance/mondialcare/schengen-insurance" id="MondialCare" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">MondialCare</a> or <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/insurance/europ-assistance" id="EuropAssistance" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Europ Assistance</a>.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">Greece’s EU Digital COVID-19 Passport</h2><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Greece has successfully joined the EU gateway after the country passed the technical tests and has started to issue the first EU COVID-19 passports.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The <a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/greece-reveals-first-eu-digital-covid-passport-as-fast-lane-to-facilitate-travel/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">country had revealed the first EU Digital COVID-19 Passport</a> back at the end of May, during which time the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that the system will be running in the country before the deadline of July 1 that Brussels set, which has turned out to be true.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Additionally, during the launch of the passport in Athens, Mitsotakis urged other EU countries to open for the summer season to help travel and tourism recover from the financial loss caused by the pandemic.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The European Union has established the<a href="https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/all-details-on-eu-covid-19-passport-revealed-heres-what-you-need-to-know/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"> EU COVID-19 Vaccination Passport</a> in a bid to restore safe travel within the bloc.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #042057; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 38px; margin: 30px auto 20px;">COVID-19 Situation in Greece</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Similar to the other European countries, Greece has been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the country has been able to keep the situation under control by imposing nationwide lockdown measures.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">According to World Health Organization (WHO) figures, as of August 12, Greece has identified 521,399 COVID-19 infection cases and has registered 13,118 deaths. Only during the last 24 hours, 4,614 new Coronavirus cases were detected in the country.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Until now, the country has administered at least 10,875,211 COVID-19 vaccine doses, which means that around 54.2 per cent of the population have received at least one dose of the vaccine, whereas about 50.5 per cent have been fully vaccinated</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vaccines that are offered in Greece include Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">NOTE:</span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This article was originally published on June 21. 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Credit: Public Domain.</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato was one of the most influential thinkers in the history philosophy. Plato’s concepts are laid the groundwork for <a href="https://greekreporter.com/?s=ancient+greek" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Ancient Greek </a>and western philosophy, and are still considered immensely influential to this day. His contributions are easily recognizable across education, politics, ethics, epistemology, and psychology. 20th century thinker Alfred North Whitehead once described European philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato.” While many of Plato’s concepts are undeniably crucial for the progression of western philosophy, some of his ideas have not aged as well. Let’s take a look inside some of the best and worst ideas found in Plato’s philosophy.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 27px auto 17px;">Plato’s best ideas</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The theory of forms</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato establishes a significant difference between what we can perceive through the senses and what we can perceive through reason. He describes the latter as “forms.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For Plato, “forms” combined with language create the basis of scientific knowledge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato believes that the phenomena we perceive with the senses are the constant changes of the ideal “forms” that can only be perceived with reason. In Plato’s world there is a universal, singular “ideal” of a structure like a house, and the houses that we see in our daily experience are only tangible manifestations of that ideal–manifestations that are subject to change.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato urged philosophers to try to understand the ideal world. What we can perceive with our senses never remains, while in the world of ideas and “forms” everything is immutable and eternal, like the soul.</p><div class="td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"><span class="td-adspot-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bbbbbb; display: block; font-size: 10px; line-height: 21px;"></span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4210934692882880" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-slot="1689273383" data-ad-status="filled" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 174px; text-decoration-line: none;"><ins aria-label="Advertisement" id="aswift_0_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 174px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;" tabindex="0" title="Advertisement"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 174px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Governments centered on justice </span><a href="https://greekreporter.com/2015/11/12/platos-republic-among-the-5-most-important-books-in-the-world/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">Plato’s model of the republic</a><span style="text-align: left;"> is based on justice. Plato believes that the search for justice should be the main purpose of any ruler. He also believed that governing was a kind of art like painting or literature, and that the art of governing well requires good reasoning, or a discerning interpretation of “forms.”</span></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This is why Plato invents the moniker of the “philosopher king.” He believed that a ruler should have the intellectual prowess of a thinker in order to govern correctly.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato traveled twice to Syracuse, Sicily, to try to put his philosophical project into practice and demonstrate that it was a viable form of governance. He was met with opposition, however, and secretly fleed back to <a data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" href="https://greekreporter.com/greece/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Greece">Greece</a>.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 27px auto 17px;">Plato’s worst ideas</h3><div class="td-a-ad id_inline_ad2 id_ad_content-horiz-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"><span class="td-adspot-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #bbbbbb; display: block; font-size: 10px; line-height: 21px;"></span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4210934692882880" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-slot="9042834004" data-ad-status="filled" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 174px; text-decoration-line: none;"><ins aria-label="Advertisement" id="aswift_1_expand" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 174px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;" tabindex="0" title="Advertisement"><ins id="aswift_1_anchor" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 174px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; visibility: visible; width: 696px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Plato’s views on women</span></ins></ins></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato has extremely mixed and inconsistent views on how women would function within governing systems. Although he believed that women were just and could assist in governmental processes, he also compared them to children.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato also derided women’s biology as affecting their aptitude to think logically, saying that their bodies were similar to a “rebellious animal without reason” driven by its appetite. He defined the female reproductive system as an “animal eager to procreate.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For Plato the female body had a life of its own: “if the uterus remains for a long time without producing fruit; it becomes irritated and wanders throughout the body, closes the air passage, prevents breathing, puts the body in danger and engenders a thousand diseases.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Such misguided ideas about the female body were widespread amongst thinkers of the time. Even <a href="https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/05/medical-recipe-hippocrates-st-catherine-monastery-egypt/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine</a>, wrote in his “Treatise on Women’s Diseases” about something he called “hysterical suffocation”; a respiratory disease that appeared when the uterus migrated to the upper abdomen in search of fluid.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Featherless bipeds”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">One of Plato’s ideas that completely missed the mark was his attempt to categorize humans with birds, dubbing them “featherless bipeds,”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">According to leged, Diogenes of Sinope, the famous “cynic” of <a data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="5" href="https://greekreporter.com/ancient-greece/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a>, became angry with Plato’s classification that compared men to birds. Diogenes decided to pluck a rooster and take it to one of Plato’s classes where he proclaimed “here is Plato’s man.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato’s logic for associating humans with birds was both being’s ability to master coordinated movement.</p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 27px auto 17px;">Platonic Academy of Athens</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://greekreporter.com/2021/03/29/platonic-academy-athens-worlds-first-university/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">The Platonic Academy of Athens was founded by Plato</a> around 387 BC. The academy was destroyed during the first war between <a data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" href="https://greekreporter.com/greece/" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Greece">Greece</a> and Asia Minor and was subsequently rebuilt in 410 AD. The Academy was eventually closed for good by the Emperor Justinian in 529 AD. The school was dedicated to the study of knowledge, mathematics, medicine, rhetoric and astronomy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">platonic academy</a> had three great periods:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;">The ancient academy, made up of the disciples closest to Plato until 260 BC. They closely followed school of thought invented by their teacher: that knowledge is based on justified, true beliefs.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 21px;">Middle Academy, founded in 244 BC. It was characterized by returning to the thought of Socrates, constituting a new distance from the original thought of Plato. Irony, skepticism, doubt and interrogation dominated.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px;">New Academy, from 160 BC. Represented by Carnéades and Philo of Larisa; this iteration of the academy taught that one cannot have definitive knowledge of what an outcome will be: it is impossible to have total certainty or uncertainty.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Plato’s most famous student was <a href="https://greekreporter.com/2020/12/21/the-real-face-of-aristotle-artist-reconstructs-famous-ancient-greeks/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; pointer-events: auto; text-decoration-line: none;">Aristotle.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flytrip.gr/en/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="665" data-original-width="834" height="349" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E-3dJRemfzs/YRzgqP-9CtI/AAAAAAAAd78/42jXEiKVpIMD_Y9aB8mU9XtgPDKKB1aJwCLcBGAsYHQ/w438-h349/fly%2Band%2Bdrive%2Benglish.bmp" width="438" /></a></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p></div></div>
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Thessaloniki is leading the way toward Greece’s future as the digital hub of southeastern Europe, US Consul General at Thessaloniki Elizabeth K. Lee said on Tuesday. <div> The US diplomat was addressing the two-day Thessaloniki Future Thinking Dialogues (TFTD) conference organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). </div><div> Grecian Delight supports Greece
Starting off with praising the city’s strong ties with the United States, Lee noted that it has been the home to two American-affiliated educational institutions for more than 100 years: Anatolia College and the American Farm School, and also has been home to the YMCA since 1919. </div><div> With the central theme of the 1st TFTD conference being the potential transformation of Thessaloniki to a model nerve center of digital innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, Lee underlined that the US “remains strongly engaged in this area because we know that teaching entrepreneurship and STEM skills to Greek youth will lead to sustainable economic growth and a stronger Greek workforce.”
Major U.S. companies like Cisco, Deloitte, and Pfizer have made “the strategic decision to grow their footprint in Thessaloniki so they can tap into the city’s highly educated young workforce and the Balkan market of 30 million people,” Lee highlighted, in line with using the case of the northern city as a jumping point to discuss the cities of the future as innovation ecosystems. </div><div> “As Ambassador Pyatt has said, American business leaders do not longer ask ‘Where is Thessaloniki?’ but rather, ‘where else can we invest?’,” Lee pointed out. </div><div> Thessaloniki digital hub ecosystem
New ecosystems are popping up in cities, as mostly young people are driven by their dreams not just to make money but to also offer something valuable to the community, Elias Spirtounias, executive director of AmCham, stated.
Introducing the AmCham’s conference, Spirtounias said that Thessaloniki is an an example of such an ecosystem.
“We live in a drastically and rapidly changing world in which we all are called to adapt and operate faster and more efficiently,” he said, and science and technology can help in key ways to resolve challenges and succeed in areas “where other policies and actions have failed such as in confronting impoverishment, inequalities, health and others.”
Such mainly urban ecosystems are “providing the best shelter” to incubate such ideas and to interact with others, he noted. </div><div>The chamber’s commitment is to help educate young entrepreneurs about the business aspect of their projects, the right practices and the constraints of the real economy so they may fulfil their dreams.
Spirtounias said that the collaboration between AmCham and the US Embassy at the Thessaloniki International Fair in 2018 was a catalytic event for the city and the region, affording visiting American businesses a clear vision of the prospects of investing in the city and in young Greek people, and inspired the two-day conference.
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<div><a href="https://www.olympos-travel.gr/en/thessaloniki/" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">CHOOSE YOUR TRAVEL PARTNER IN GREECE AND GET A QUOTE FOR YOUR GROUP !</a></div><p><span face=""Work Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 18px;">Greece and Israel signed an accord on Monday to ease travel restrictions to Greece for Israelis with proof of COVID-19 vaccination, a move Athens hopes will support its bid to use vaccination certificates to save its battered tourism sector.</span></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pushed the idea of using standardized certificates showing travellers have received an inoculation as a means of opening up international travel for the vital summer season.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We need to facilitate travellers once they provide easy proof of vaccination and this is what we intend to do with Israel,” he said at a live-streamed joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tourism, which accounts for about a fifth of the Greek economy and employs one in five workers, collapsed last year as the pandemic gutted revenues to 4 billion euros ($4.81 billion) from 18 billion in 2019.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel has been a world leader in vaccinations, with more than a third of its population receiving the Pfizer Inc -BioNTech shot.</p><div class="cypru-6059e223c9292bb7b9711d90661c7386 cypru-single-post-center-2-728x90" id="cypru-6059e223c9292bb7b9711d90661c7386" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mitsotakis said Israel’s rapid vaccine campaign meant Monday’s agreement could point the way for similar accords with other countries later, allowing tourists to visit without additional restrictions.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I expect what we will be doing with Israel to be a trial run for what we can do with other countries,” he said, adding that he expected a gradual suppression of COVID-19 in the months ahead to release considerable pent-up demand for travel.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mitsotakis has forecast a strong rebound in tourism this summer, saying vaccination drives in markets including Israel will allow tourists to return despite current industry gloom.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 27-nation EU continues to debate whether certificates should be required for cross-border travel. Critics say such certificates could be discriminatory and it remains unclear how effective vaccinations will be in halting transmission.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #111111; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>
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margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: auto;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2017/08/08/syros-centrepiece-cyclades/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Syros</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">: Best Greek island for culture and off-season cachet</span></h5><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Arial, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, Roboto, "Lucida Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/12/21/uk-sifnos-dream-destination/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Sifnos</a>: Best for big, fat Greek feasts</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/09/13/hydra-one-of-greeces-most-captivating-islands-2/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Hydra</a>: Best for a long weekend with the art crowd</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/08/22/exploring-the-magical-cycladic-island-of-milos/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Milos</a>: Best for a photogenic and dramatic coastline</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/08/05/exploring-stunning-serifos-island/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Serifos</a>: Best for naturists and purists</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2019/05/01/exploring-amorgos-a-charming-and-authentic-cycladic-island/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Amorgos</a>: Best for deep-blue seas and wide-open spaces</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Paxoi: Best for the perfect balance of seclusion and sophistication</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/12/17/santorini-best-island-in-europe/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Santorini</a>: Best for honeymooners and first-timers</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Kefalonia: Best for laidback family holidays</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/01/17/casa-odyssia-corfu-ionian-sea/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Corfu</a>: Best for character and lush landscapes</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Ithaki: Best for a mythical retreat for lovers and loners</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/08/17/folegandros-our-new-cycladic-crush/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Folegandros</a>: Best for authenticity with a bohemian buzz</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/06/23/katerinas-bar-in-mykonos-among-worlds-best/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Mykonos</a>: Best for decadent parties and five-star hotels</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/06/25/visiting-tinos-greeces-most-graceful-island/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Tinos</a>: Best for traditional villages and knockout tavernas</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/06/22/crete-sense-the-authentic/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Crete</a>: Best for antiquities, active adventures and sunshine all year round</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Patmos: Best for stark mystique and show-stopping villas</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/04/symi-the-jewel-of-the-dodecanese/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Symi</a>: Best for castaway coves and a picture-perfect port</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2016/08/13/naxos-a-guide/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Naxos</a>: Best for endless sandy beaches</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/11/05/volkswagen-electrify-astypalaia/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Astypalea</a>: Best for escaping the crowds</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/01/20/oldest-library-greece-zakynthos/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Zakynthos</a>: Best for seaside holidays with toddlers or teens</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">Rhodes: Best for travelling back in time</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/01/12/conde-nast-traveler-names-skiathos-as-the-best-island-for-beaches/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s;">Skiathos</a>: Best for flopping onto a sandy beach with a good book</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/02/14/insiders-guide-to-lefkada/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #686868; cursor: pointer; line-height: inherit; 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year!</span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Are you still undecided on where to take your next
vacation? Here’s the top reasons to visit Greece this year 2021… </span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Or any year for that
matter! </span></b></span></blockquote><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"></span></b><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Let's be honest
– there's probably a million reasons why you should travel Greece! This
Mediterranean country has it all – Great beaches, wonderful food, friendly
people, history and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">From top tier
destinations such as Mykonos, to quiet authentic mountain villages, there's
something to appeal to every type of traveler.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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be biased (having lived in Athens for nearly 5 years now), but Greece really is
the ideal holiday destination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Still need
convincing? If you've ever wondered why go to Greece, here's just some of the
reasons why.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Reasons to travel to Greece<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Whether you want
to soak up the sun on a quiet beach, explore the remains of an ancient
civilization, or enjoy the great outdoors, Greece has something for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Here's a few
reasons why I think you should visit Greece this year or next.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">1. Great Weather<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Due to its
reasonably southern location on the Mediterranean, Greece is blessed with
wonderful weather during the spring, summer, and autumn months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Between June and
September, rain can be a rare occurrence, and day time temperatures regularly
exceed 27 degrees. If your idea of an ideal vacation is to rock up, and wear a
pair of shorts and a T-shirt for 2 weeks, then Greece is for you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">2. Awesome Food<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">I think
traditional Greek cuisine is one of the really underused ‘selling points’ about
Greece. You’ve probably heard about the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, and
how olive oil is good for you. What you probably don’t realize though, is just
how tasty all that good food in Greece is!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The fresh fruits
are divine, the vegetables have taste, and the meat is exceptional. Venture out
past a Greek salad, and explore some of the other dishes on the menu – You
won’t be disappointed by Greek food!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Some Greek dishes you can try include:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Kleftiko<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Pasticcio </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Moussaka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Dolmadakia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Souvlaki<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Fava<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Tiropita </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Stifado<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Gyros<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Baklava<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Kalamari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Spanakopita<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Tzatziki </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Bugatsa </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Paputsakia </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGc_4mUWDUw/X95ZS1rZ_nI/AAAAAAAAb9s/yLCLkCrzHaUqARMdzbdjcqPQv0bdj2i-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s599/61bf959f9ae947e57164867c646c70a8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="599" height="258" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OGc_4mUWDUw/X95ZS1rZ_nI/AAAAAAAAb9s/yLCLkCrzHaUqARMdzbdjcqPQv0bdj2i-QCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h258/61bf959f9ae947e57164867c646c70a8.jpg" width="491" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8BG_1Fih43o/X95ZTLjTtNI/AAAAAAAAb9w/d_Bxy9y_yAcl9d4cgxZousOINj1Fexv8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/pastitsio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="278" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8BG_1Fih43o/X95ZTLjTtNI/AAAAAAAAb9w/d_Bxy9y_yAcl9d4cgxZousOINj1Fexv8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w492-h278/pastitsio.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--heSOfVayc4/X95Z40fWKvI/AAAAAAAAb-A/Mv-EpUBtAbUW07bzVsgHc2vFRkeymsW-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1084/2c80f99a61049194c80235e3561559d6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1084" height="324" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--heSOfVayc4/X95Z40fWKvI/AAAAAAAAb-A/Mv-EpUBtAbUW07bzVsgHc2vFRkeymsW-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w485-h324/2c80f99a61049194c80235e3561559d6.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">3. Unique Drinks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">And to accompany
all that great Greek food, you'll need a drink or two!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Ouzo is probably
the most well known drink to come from Greece, with the strong Raki, or
Tsipouro a close runner up. In addition, there's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>national brands of beer such as Mythos or Fix,
as well as countless micro-brewery beers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">If you love
wine, consider spending time in Nemea in the Peloponnese or even Santorini. There
are nearly a dozen boutique wineries in Santorini, many of which offer </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">wine tasting
tours</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cgt7HEN97oU/X95d8bciZ6I/AAAAAAAAb-w/XPQzhsZiqZ8vC8GVd-XeiHIZqzEItw2nACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/plomariou200_2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="568" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cgt7HEN97oU/X95d8bciZ6I/AAAAAAAAb-w/XPQzhsZiqZ8vC8GVd-XeiHIZqzEItw2nACLcBGAsYHQ/w568-h568/plomariou200_2.gif" width="568" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">4. Amazing Beaches<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Did you know
that Greece has over 6000 islands? That’s incredible right! As you can imagine,
when you add all the coastlines together, it equates to rather a lot of
beautiful </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">beaches to choose from!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Every island seems to have its
own little gem, <u>Santorini</u> included if you know where to look
– take <u>Red Beach</u> for example<span style="color: #444444;">!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l9V_2t2yOf0/X95eUygwgsI/AAAAAAAAb-4/NIhE1siFyyIwOIPgosAhXmCiYg_-EDcbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/navagio-beach-zakynthos-story-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="398" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l9V_2t2yOf0/X95eUygwgsI/AAAAAAAAb-4/NIhE1siFyyIwOIPgosAhXmCiYg_-EDcbQCLcBGAsYHQ/w598-h398/navagio-beach-zakynthos-story-2.jpg" width="598" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">On mainland
Greece there are stretches of sandy beaches which few foreign tourists ever
seem to discover. Some Greek islands like </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Milos</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> <span style="color: #444444;">have incredible beaches, and yet no-one seems to know of
them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Over the years
I’ve been fortunate enough to visit more than a few, and whilst it’s impossible
to give a list of the best beaches in Greece, I’d suggest you check out beaches
in Lefkada, Crete, Western Greece, Kalamata, Milos, and yes Mykonos.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Maybe I’ll see
you on one this summer!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">5. Stunning landscapes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">People who have
only ever visited Greek islands in August might be forgiven for thinking that
Greece has a harsh, dry, and somewhat barren landscape. Whilst this does have
an innate beauty in itself, there is far more to the country than that!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Take the
magnificent rock formations of </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Meteora</span></span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">, the </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">chestnut forests of Nafpaktos</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">, <span style="color: #444444;">or the inspiring views from Arachova near </span><u>Delphi</u><span style="color: #444444;"> as a starting point, and you will soon discover
that Greece has a varied and stunning landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hamk0R356Iw/X95eyJK4-8I/AAAAAAAAb_A/CEbDfjsOQvoqyH3i6xFUaqK83VpjSaPAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s284/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="358" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hamk0R356Iw/X95eyJK4-8I/AAAAAAAAb_A/CEbDfjsOQvoqyH3i6xFUaqK83VpjSaPAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w574-h358/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="574" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">6. UNESCO World Heritage Sites</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">If I thought
that Greece undersells itself on its local cuisine, it definitely does so even
more with its UNESCO World Heritage sites. Even Greeks might be surprised to
know that there are 18 of them!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">I’ve got a bit
of a side mission to visit all the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Greece. I’m
not there yet, but give me a few years and I will be!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Greece<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The Acropolis, Athens</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Archaeological
Site of Aigai (Vergina)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Archaeological site of Delphi</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The Archaeological site of
Mystras</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Archaeological site of Olympia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Archaeological
site of </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Mycenae</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> and
Tiryns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Delos</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Historic Centre
(Chora) with the Monastery of Saint John on Patmos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Medieval City of Rhodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Monasteries of
Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Old Town of Corfu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Paleochristian
and Byzantine monuments of </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Thessaloniki</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Sanctuary of
Asklepios and ancient theatre at Epidaurus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Temple of Apollo
Epicurius at Bassae<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Meteora</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Mount Athos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: 30pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Philippi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">7. Athens and the Acropolis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Athens has
probably had something of a bad press over recent years. Take my word for it
though, it’s not all protests and riot police! Instead you will find a
multi-layered vibrant city waiting to be discovered.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0eZ6mU4y0hc/X95abRUOmEI/AAAAAAAAb-M/MsoqlPUXm14YrRi1G0YG-zYYB1dj1-2vwCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/athens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0eZ6mU4y0hc/X95abRUOmEI/AAAAAAAAb-M/MsoqlPUXm14YrRi1G0YG-zYYB1dj1-2vwCLcBGAsYHQ/w526-h295/athens.jpg" width="526" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Many people stay
just a </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">few days in Athens</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> to visit the main attractions in the historic centre, and that’s
cool. There’s certainly plenty to see here, such as the </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Acropolis</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">, <u>Ancient
Agora</u><span style="color: #444444;">, and Temple of Zeus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Put your urban
explorer hat on though, and you’ll find inspiring street art, a relaxed </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">coffee
culture</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">, hidden neighbourhoods, and much more!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">By staying
longer, you can also see some of the other significant archaeological sites in
the surrounding areas by taking </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">day trips
from Athens</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">8. Outdoor adventure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Greece is also a
great destination for active people. It goes without saying that there are
endless watersports opportunities such as kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and
kitesurfing to name a few, but there is much more as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Hikers will love
the varied landscapes, particularly on Crete, and even non-hikers can manage the
walk through the Samaria Gorge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Cyclists will
find it a great country to ride through. </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The best
time to go to Greece</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> for outdoor adventure
isn't August though as I did on my last <u>cycling holiday in Greece!</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5TGEluRAh8/X95ftc9icuI/AAAAAAAAb_Y/_bepP6foSzwJFQKFg3M1PLpJaMk_efzFACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/rio-antirriobridge1-thumb-large.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="960" height="380" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y5TGEluRAh8/X95ftc9icuI/AAAAAAAAb_Y/_bepP6foSzwJFQKFg3M1PLpJaMk_efzFACLcBGAsYHQ/w608-h380/rio-antirriobridge1-thumb-large.jpg" width="608" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><u><br /></u></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">9. Venetian Castles</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">If you are from
the United States and want to see some real castles, Greece has many to choose
from. Again, these are really undermarketed as Greek tourist destinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Whilst people
can't fail to notice the fortified town of Rhodes, few people have heard
of </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Methoni and Koroni castles</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> on the
Peloponnese. If you are heading that way, be sure to check them out!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">10. Ancient Greece<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">If you are a
Greek mythology fan and love the stories of ancient Greece, you could plan
a </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Greek road trip</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> and create
your own Odyssey! Some of the tales and history of Greece can really only be
appreciated by visiting the country itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">For example, you
may know that the Greek city states used to hold a truce in ancient times when
the Olympic was held in Olympia. This allowed all the athletes to travel there
without fear of attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">It's only when
you work out how far </span><u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Ancient Olympia</span></u><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> is from Thebes or further north that you appreciate what an epic
journey this might have been!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">There's many
ancient sites in Greece, with the Acropolis, Delphi and the ancient theatre at
Epidavros being the most-visited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Did you know
that Delphi was once considered to be the center of the world? Sounds like
reason enough to visit Greece!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">11.Thessaloniki –Calcidica –Mount Athos and the Macedonian civilization <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Thessaloniki is the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>most beautiful city offering a multitude of
choices for all types of travelers and all times of the year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uuujdys7jeM/X95bDFUi_sI/AAAAAAAAb-U/goWwmB0-J1sQgzNjNcY1DMl7QcKfwlERwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/thessalonikipsila1-scaled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="2048" height="387" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uuujdys7jeM/X95bDFUi_sI/AAAAAAAAb-U/goWwmB0-J1sQgzNjNcY1DMl7QcKfwlERwCLcBGAsYHQ/w562-h387/thessalonikipsila1-scaled.jpg" width="562" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">A city easy to love is home to <b>fine food, rich
history, stunning coastlines,</b> and so much more. Vibrant and full of things
to do, this Greek city houses <b>Byzantine landmarks</b> scattered through its
ancient, yet modern terrain. Take a step back in time by day and spend your
nights dancing at the latest clubs. And that’s not all: Thessaloniki is also
home to some of the world’s most stunning beaches within 1 hour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Thessaloniki has a lot to offer: vivid coastlines
and mouthwatering cuisine are just the beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Take a tour and explore</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> the history of the famous <b>White Tower</b>,
the <b>Agia Sofia</b>, and <b>Agios Dimitrios</b>, a beautiful Byzantine church
with a chilling crypt. Finish off with <b>some Byzantine castles</b> and the <b>old
port</b> of Thessaloniki.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Just beyond the borders of Thessaloniki lies
another world of Greek history, so why not take a peek? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2ur8XIzpTA/X95fBwn6jII/AAAAAAAAb_I/d6_tU95iTpAm-hdFi1YLjRTuC6elcYCvACLcBGAsYHQ/s1577/Golden%252Blarnax%252BPhillip%252BII%252BMuseum%252Bof%252Bthe%252BRoyal%252BTombs%252Bof%252BAigai%252BVergina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1577" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l2ur8XIzpTA/X95fBwn6jII/AAAAAAAAb_I/d6_tU95iTpAm-hdFi1YLjRTuC6elcYCvACLcBGAsYHQ/w488-h640/Golden%252Blarnax%252BPhillip%252BII%252BMuseum%252Bof%252Bthe%252BRoyal%252BTombs%252Bof%252BAigai%252BVergina.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Enjoy a day trip into the land of Alexander the Great and the
Macedons</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> — only a short
trip from the city lies <b>Pella,</b> the former capital of the kingdom of
Macedon and the current location of an impressive archeological site and
museum. Experience the <b>Royal Tombs of Aigai</b>, enjoy gorgeous views, and
fresh country air just outside the city.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wAzJZOTi0TI/X95bUTmIOPI/AAAAAAAAb-c/T0hE74K7uLsUl_lBOaLJO6zBbbKWItB5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s284/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="397" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wAzJZOTi0TI/X95bUTmIOPI/AAAAAAAAb-c/T0hE74K7uLsUl_lBOaLJO6zBbbKWItB5gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h397/images%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><b><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Take a tour and explore</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"> <b>Mount Athos by a half day tour- Cruise<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
heart of the Orthodox monastic life which beats for more than 10 centuries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">During the cruise, you can admire eight of the
twenty Holy Monasteries of Mt. Athos, situated in the west coast of the
peninsula of Athos, in Sithonia bay. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">The cruise continues to the beautiful <b>island
of Ammouliani</b>; the unique inhabited island in Chalkidiki very popular for
the crystal-blue water of the sea and the white sand beaches, all of them
awarded with the blue flag certification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">12. Island Hopping<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Greece has over
200 inhabited islands, and each one is a reason to come to Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Perhaps the
easiest island chain to go inter-island hopping is the Cyclades. It's quite
simple to put together an itinerary that visits both popular and
off-the-beaten-path islands, and it's one of my favourite parts of Greece to
visit.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wLDNWV9em5w/X95fYaYnvUI/AAAAAAAAb_Q/p9RNEdnfqLoapUIec7MtpmgIDKzX2fOSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s990/mykonos-tourismos-katastima.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="990" height="340" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wLDNWV9em5w/X95fYaYnvUI/AAAAAAAAb_Q/p9RNEdnfqLoapUIec7MtpmgIDKzX2fOSgCLcBGAsYHQ/w605-h340/mykonos-tourismos-katastima.jpg" width="605" /></a></span></div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">A first-timer
itinerary often includes Santorini and Mykonos, but I'd encourage you to visit
some of the smaller ones as well. Schinoussa and Iraklia are two of my
favourite Greek islands yet to be discovered by mass tourism. See them while
they are still undiscovered!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">13. Santorini and Mykonos<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">These tow
beautiful Greek islands deserve their own listing, as they are popular must-see
destinations for people from around the world. Who can't help but be moved by
romantic images of blue-domed churches, white-washed buildings and
picture-perfect settings?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hjtA6X07sV4/X95bqHsY0bI/AAAAAAAAb-k/CCtDLxj58kwB-okFXhxWBnPx1QGgvobGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/179881_14051014590019372138.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hjtA6X07sV4/X95bqHsY0bI/AAAAAAAAb-k/CCtDLxj58kwB-okFXhxWBnPx1QGgvobGQCLcBGAsYHQ/w570-h428/179881_14051014590019372138.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><br /><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">These popular
islands are perhaps best visited in the off-season rather than high season. You'll
have fewer other visitors, and will appreciate these world-class destinations
so much more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">14. It’s safe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">My final reason
for visiting Greece is again one that I think most people don’t emphasize
enough. Greece is safe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">There are few
countries in the world where you would feel comfortable eating a late meal
outdoors, and then walking through the streets of an old town in the early
hours of the morning with your family. </span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Visit Greece this year and see for
yourself!</span><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 18pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Plan your trip to Greece<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Have these reasons
to visit Greece persuaded you that you need to get planning your trip? I've got
travel tips that can help… and they're free!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Dear Partners </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;">There is a good GREEK portal </span><a href="http://www.flytrip.gr"><span style="font-size: large;">www.flytrip.gr</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt;"> which you can explore for searfching and booking airtickets -hotels-cars-transfers -cruises-ferry tickets -fly and drive packages from Athens &Thessaloniki -daily private tours in Thessaloniki and Athens and more other services.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;">Book your trip now here easily ,quickly with convenience !</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flytrip.gr/en/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="352" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KhWLEy9lpoI/X95jnxYklEI/AAAAAAAAb_k/UdOaBa2D7KE0MK4KfgXgB6M5Y4qvh-STACLcBGAsYHQ/w352-h352/LOGO%2BFLYTRIP.png" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 22.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Why you should travel to Greece in Breif .<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Here are some
commonly asked questions about why you should travel to Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">What is so great about Greece?</span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Greece is famous
for its amazing beaches and clear-blue waters. In addition, the perfect beauty
of Cycladic architecture, incredible sunset spots, and warm summer weather
makes it one of Europe's most popular vacation destinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Is Greece worth visiting?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Greece is
definitely worth visiting! There's so much variation in the country, from quiet
islands with perfect beaches to archaeological sites and a culture dating back
thousands of years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EL;">Why is Greece popular with tourists?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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to a broad spectrum of people, due to its varied islands, unique cultural, and
important place in history.This, coupled with the fact it offers incredible
value for money when compared to other European destinations makes Greece a
popular country to visit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The idyllic island was specifically chosen as the leading voice in travel and exploration aims to highlight sustainable and climate-friendly tourism.</span></blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alonissos is an island in the northern Sporades, an archipelago situated in the Aegean sea off the coast of eastern Greece, near Volos. The island is easily accessible by high-speed ferries that depart from the port at the nearby city.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The many sun-soaked beaches, traditional villages, and ancient sites make Alonissos a perfect destination for families, nature lovers, and those fascinated by Greece’s history.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-605290" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_605290" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px; margin: 6px auto 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; width: 696px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-605290 size-large" height="928" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" src="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-768x1024.jpg" srcset="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-225x300.jpg 225w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-113x150.jpg 113w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-696x928.jpg 696w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-315x420.jpg 315w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0743-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 696px;" width="696" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-605290" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; text-align: left;">Fishing boat in Patitiri, Alonissos. Credit: Patricia Claus/Greek Reporter</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Chora, the town, is situated atop a tall hill that overlooks the Aegean Sea and the island’s many areas of stunning natural beauty. Chora once was the capital of the island before it faced destruction from an earthquake in 1965.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">After the disastrous quake destroyed many buildings in the town, many of the residents of Alonissos moved down to the seaside village of Patitiri, full of colorful houses and traditional fishing boats, which is now the capital and main port of the island.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-605289" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_605289" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px; margin: 6px auto 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; width: 696px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-605289 size-large" height="521" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" src="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-1024x767.jpeg" srcset="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-1024x767.jpeg 1024w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-150x112.jpeg 150w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-1536x1151.jpeg 1536w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-2048x1535.jpeg 2048w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-80x60.jpeg 80w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-265x198.jpeg 265w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-696x522.jpeg 696w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-1068x800.jpeg 1068w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/fullsizeoutput_2d9e-560x420.jpeg 560w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 696px;" width="696" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-605289" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; text-align: left;">Agios Demetrios Beach, Alonissos. This organized beach has everything – a small taverna, sunshades and chairs, with perfect views looking out at the sea between Alonissos and Peristera. Credit: Patricia Claus/Greek Reporter</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Although there are villas, holiday rentals, and hotels around the island, the majority of them are found in Patitiri and the island’s old town of Chora.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Patitiri is home to the Alonissos Museum, where the history of the island is recorded through rooms full of authentic objects that outline the daily life of its residents throughout the years, such as a housewife and a sandal maker.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Local folkloric customs, traditional dress, and crafts are highlighted in the museum’s exhibits, providing visitors a peek into the local history and traditions of the unique island.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-605288" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_605288" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 5px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; width: 696px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-605288 size-large" height="928" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px" src="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-768x1024.jpg" srcset="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-225x300.jpg 225w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-113x150.jpg 113w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-696x928.jpg 696w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-315x420.jpg 315w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/IMG_0714-scaled.jpg 1920w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 696px;" width="696" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-605288" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; text-align: left;">The Chora at the top of the island of Alonissos. Credit: Patricia Claus/Greek Reporter</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Known for its breathtaking landscapes, where lush, green forests extend to touch the shores of crystalline, blue-green waters, Alonissos is also home to one of the largest populations of the critically-endangered Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus Monachus).</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, <a href="https://www.mom.gr/home" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">MOm</a>, tasked with the researching and helping to protect the precious seal population, has its headquarters oalong the Patitiri waterfront.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">According to recent studies, biologists believe that there are only 700 Mediterranean monk seals left. Animal lovers can support MOm’s mission by adopting a seal or by purchasing merchandise, with the profits going to research and protection efforts.</p><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-617589" class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_617589" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 16px; margin: 6px auto 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; width: 1006px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-617589" height="682" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px" src="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV.jpg" srcset="https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV.jpg 1006w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV-300x203.jpg 300w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV-150x102.jpg 150w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV-768x521.jpg 768w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV-696x472.jpg 696w, https://greece.greekreporter.com/files/EePD25eWoAEajzV-620x420.jpg 620w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 696px;" width="1006" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-617589" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 17px; margin: 6px 0px 26px; text-align: left;">Mediterranean Monk Seal resting on the beach. Credit: AlexiaGk/Twitter</figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In order to preserve the rapidly decreasing population of this majestic seal, the National Marine Park of Alonnisos and the Northern Sporades, the largest marine protected area in Europe, was created in 1992.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Located near the protected waters of Alonissos is the famed underwater archaeological site at <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/07/10/diving-into-greeces-heritage-experience-of-a-lifetime-at-ancient-wreck/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Peristera</a>, a tiny islet just off the main island, featuring a preserved shipwreck that has been called “the Parthenon of shipwrecks.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The site has thankfully remained perfectly preserved since its discovery by a fisherman in 1985, primarily due to the Marine Park’s protected status.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="392" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSpEFwSY78Y?feature=oembed" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 391.5px; max-width: 100%;" title="Alonissos_Peristera_1_Copyrights_ΥΠΠΟ-ΕΕΑ, βίντεο Matteo Collina, Univerità della Calabria–DIMEG." width="100%"></iframe></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">A large merchant ship from 425 BC, possibly originating from Athens, capsized as it was carrying a shipment of wine in amphorae from the city of Mendi, located in Chalkidiki, which was known for its wine in antiquity.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Amazingly, visiting divers can still make out the contours of the massive ship, thought to be one of the most important ancient wrecks currently known, through the thousands of amphorae that cover the sea floor at the site.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If visitors want to learn to dive in order to explore the site of Peristera or the protected waters of Alonissos, there are many dive centers that offer courses from the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), even at the beginner level.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Access to the site is not limited to those who know how to scuba dive, however, as visitors are able to explore the shipwreck in the sea’s depths through virtual reality in the island’s main town.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The natural beauty and cultural heritage of the island have remained pristine and preserved, and although it has so much to offer, Alonissos is relatively unknown outside of Greece, especially compared to islands such as Santorini or Mykonos. This makes it perfect for travelers who are looking for a traditional, low-key experience during their holiday in Greece.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>SOURCE :GREECE</b></span></p></div></article></div></div></div></div></div>
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<p> <span face="Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #002f5c; font-size: 1.538em; font-weight: 700;">Incredible beauty</span></p><div class="entry-excerpt-in" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #002f5c; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.538em; margin-bottom: 24.3906px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;">Greece has been blessed to be sprinkled with hundreds of islands around its shores, with each offering visitors something unique.</div><div script="" type="text/javascript"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" height="479" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5SkkidCGOw/X6q2h0rXYpI/AAAAAAAAbdg/FU2vo0lDfc4RFCi0MSa47Rio4r7SrwxSgCLcBGAsYHQ/w800-h479/%25CE%25A3%25CE%25AF%25CF%2586%25CE%25BD%25CE%25BF%25CF%2582.jpg" width="800" /></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Some are known for their breathtaking landscape and natural beauty, others for their rich culture and history leaving tourists impressed and wanting more.</span></div><div class="entry-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Located in the C<span style="background-color: transparent;">yclades, Sifnos is famous for its 235 churches. It is one of the most beautiful and characteristic islands of the Cycladic complex.</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It offers a typical Cycladic landscape, with mountainous settlements adorned with whitewashed houses with traditional Cycladic architecture. A barren nature that looks like strewn with golden leaves under the summer sun. Its beaches, wide, sandy, with calm and shallow waters, small bays, with pebbles shining under each wave are sublime. What makes Sifnos special, of course, is its many churches.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">It has a total of 235 churches (some say there are more) scattered throughout the island. Like the churches, the monasteries are closely connected with the history and tradition of Greece. Some of the churches and monasteries of Sifnos that have been characterised as historical monuments are: Panagia Aggeloktisti in Katavati, Monastery of the Prophet Elias of Psilo, Monastery of Chrysostom in Kato Petali., Panagia ta Gournia in Pano Petapali, Agios An. Petali, Agios Konstantinos in Artemonas, Panagia tis Ammou and Panagia Kohgi in Artemonas, Panagia Eleousa in the castle, Panagia Poulatis Monastery, Panagia tou Vouno, Chrysopigi Monastery Monastery.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Afternoons on the island accentuate its captivating Cycladic beauty. You will stroll through the labyrinthine cobbled streets and enjoy a unique view of the sunset. What will also impress you on this small Greek island, apart from the churches, are the many ancient towers you will come across. They were built from the 6th to the 3rd century BC for reasons of communication of the ancient citadels.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Of these, Aspros Pyrgos is the one most well-preserved, which you will see heading to the settlement of Platy Gialos. You should also definitely make a stop at the settlement of Artemonas, famous for its old mansions with stone fences and impressive flowers. There, it is definitely worth taking a stroll in the cobbled streets where you will see the largest windmill on the island, which is well maintained. The view of the Aegean from there is unbelievable.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Sifnos is for those who want to go off the trodden path, an island ideal for alternative holidays that offer you the peace you want without missing anything in beauty and facilities…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Video courtesy of Icarus Aerial Filming YouTube channel</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x03ezemZgUY" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="560"></iframe></p><div class="entry-tags" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b>source :proto thema</b></div><script src="//go.linkwi.se/delivery/js/crl.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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Here are some tips on how to prep for future travel from home: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Tip 1</b></span>: Empower positive thinking
This will end. You won’t be stuck at home forever. So use some of your energy to plan for the future – and think about your ultimate vacation. Relaxing on sunny shores? Striking out on your own to a new city? A non-stop culinary quest? Lay all your dreams out there and see what sticks. </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 2: Learn a language
Use the time you have now to enrich yourself in preparation for that future vacation. Apps that offer free ways to learn a new language can help. Got kids? Find videos like this one that help them learn key phrases with song. </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 3: Refresh your skills
Treat it like training. In order to stay fresh for that epic future vacation, find classes on Skillshare that cover things like packing light for a long trip and how to make exciting travel videos. </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 4: Prep your budget
For those whose livelihoods have been deeply affected by the pandemic, we understand the real-life anxieties that come with uncertainty. If you’re able, now’s a good time to use free apps that allow you to track monthly bills and spending, so you can determine for yourself the best way to save for the future. </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 5: Watch prices
While we’re not sure what the world will look like in the near future, we are sure that there is a future where you confidently step on a plane to a place you’ve always dreamed of visiting. Whatever that destination may be, set a Price Alert (here’s how) to track prices for that far-away, but hopefully not too far off trip. </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 6: Explore through sound
Some of our favorite podcasts take us to new and exciting places, while we’re doing everyday tasks (like folding clothes or brushing the cat). Top of our list are: Travel with Rick Steves (for expert insights and advice), the Skift Podcast (for industry friends) and Parklandia (for the national parks enthusiast in all of us). </div><div><br /></div><div> Tip 7: Escape into imaginary worlds
Many libraries include a Hoopla subscription, which lets you download audiobooks, ebooks, movies and more using your library card. Or, if you’re able, support local bookstores by ordering from Bookshop – an online bookselling service powered by local, independent bookstores – perhaps by purchasing a travel guide for that future trip? </div><div> Because we’re travelers, we know that in these unprecedented times, it’s easy to focus on all the things we wish we were doing. </div><div>But, also as travelers, we know how important it is to seize every opportunity to experience the world, even if it’s from the comfort of our homes, so when the time comes to travel again, we’re ready for it. </div><div> This page provides links or references to other third party websites. Cheapflights has no control over such third party websites, and Cheapflights is not responsible for, nor does Cheapflights endorse, sponsor, or have an affiliation with such third party websites. </div><div>You acknowledge and agree that you will be bound by the terms of service or terms of use of the third party websites when redirected to the third party websites.<div><br /></div><div>Author: jackadams </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900633752764435325.post-83926298771065162492020-08-28T10:35:00.000-07:002020-08-28T10:36:33.272-07:00Greece Becomes Magnet for Mega-Yachts in Summer 2020<script type="text/javascript" src="//go.linkwi.se/delivery/js/crl.js"></script>
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Greece has hosted a record number of mega-yachts, or yachts measuring over 40 meters (130 ft), along its shores in the summer of 2020, according to recently released data.</div>
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Enticed by Greece’s stunning beaches and low cases of Covid-19, owners of these super-yachts have gathered in the country’s world-renowned seas in droves.</div>
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Among the 145 mega-yachts docked in Greece’s shores in August are two vessels measuring over 30 meters (300 ft), as stated by Bloomberg. Although it is not the first time that mega-yachts have been spotted along Greece’s coast, this is a noted increase compared to the country’s 132 mega-yachts in August 2019, and to the 135 seen in Greece in July 2020.</div>
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Destinations in the Western Mediterranean, such as Spain and France, once hubs for such luxurious vessels, have seen some of their lowest numbers of mega-yachts in recent years. This may be due to surges of Covid-19 cases in these countries, while Greece’s coronavirus numbers have remained relatively low.</div>
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Many countries have restricted and regulated tourism in hopes of curbing Covid-19 cases, leading to great economic losses. This increase of mega-yacht tourism, also noted in Croatia and Turkey, may bring much needed financial activity to such countries, helping to remedy the economic consequences of coronavirus restrictions.</div>
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With a spectacularly steady rise in the number of international visitors since 2009 and a record 30 million tourists each year in 2018 and 2019 — equivalent to three times the country’s population — Greece has been cementing its position as the indisputable summer capital of the world even amidst the harshest of circumstances, and not without good reason.</div>
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Its unique mix of natural beauty and cultural amenities have established the eastern Mediterranean country as a first-class destination for any traveler wishing to experience a feel-good and carefree vacation in a land of true hospitality.</div>
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As you probably already know, sunlight is not only essential for the creation of vitamin D in our bodies, but it is also a known natural mood enhancer. It makes people feel better and have more energy, since it increases the levels of serotonin in the brain, therefore guaranteeing happier times (so long as you don’t forget your sunscreen, that is!).</div>
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Greece has been a popular destination for beach vacations since the 1950s, when some of the country’s best-known modern-day vacation hotspots started to gain international acclaim — most notably the picturesque islands of Mykonos and Santorini in the Cyclades, as well as the vast and varied island of Crete.</div>
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Spread across 2,500 islands, of which approximately 227 are inhabited, Greece is the country with the largest coastline in the Mediterranean Basin, according to the CIA World Factbook.</div>
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With 13,676 kilometers (8,498 miles) of coastline, you can simply never run out of options where to take a dive or lay out your sunbathing towel.</div>
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The Blue Flag eco-labels program can make choosing your swimming site a bit easier -though only a tiny bit, as there are 497 Blue Flag-awarded beaches across Greece. These should probably do for the average tourist’s beach vacations for an entire lifetime.</div>
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The birthplace of democracy, philosophy, drama, and the Olympic Games, Greece has made unsurpassed contributions to world culture, a fact that is quite obvious even on your first visit to the country.</div>
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From the Acropolis of Athens to the Pythagoreion in Samos, Greece boasts 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites — among the most in the world. Another fourteen landmarks of unique cultural or natural value across the country are currently placed on UNESCO’s tentative World Heritage list.</div>
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On top of this invaluable heritage, Greece remains a place that simply loves and appreciates the arts. Its people continue to actively enjoy them, encouraging every form of cultural dialogue.</div>
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During the summer months, this tradition escapes enclosed spaces and heads to the outdoors. A kaleidoscope of performing arts festivals are available to all audiences, the most prestigious of which is the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.</div>
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The selection of shows features high-profile performances by either Greek or international artists, often instilled with cutting-edge and controversial creative approaches.</div>
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The visitor can also experience colorful folk festivals with traditional dancing all across the country, especially on the islands and inland villages, throughout the months of July and August.</div>
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For the avid learner, most Greek museums also offer interactive walks, talks, and educational activities. They serve a vast variety of interests, ranging from archaeology and natural history to modern art and science.</div>
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The new Acropolis Museum has won numerous international awards since its launch in 2010, while new, completely original museums keep opening their doors across the country, such as the Maria Callas Museum or the Museum of Illusions, also in Athens. Specially designed activities for children are easy to find as well.</div>
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Thanks to its unique geography, Greece is a remarkably versatile country with an impressively wide range of landscapes, both natural and man-made.</div>
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Although best-known for its beautiful beaches, turquoise blue and emerald green waters, Greece is actually one of the most mountainous countries in Europe. Areas such as Pelion in Thessaly, Monemvasia in the Peloponnese, and even Crete, combine sandy seashores and mountains within as short a distance as a 30-minute drive.</div>
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Likewise, urban landscapes vary greatly in Greece because different regions have been influenced by contrasting cultures over different time periods during its turbulent history; Venetian and Ottoman monuments and architecture are present in several historic cities on the islands and inland, alongside Byzantine churches and ancient Greek temples.</div>
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As a tourist destination, Greece is a place that can accommodate literally any budget. From free or commercial camping sites and traditional pension-style or agro-touristic accommodation to luxurious villas and architecturally sophisticated boutique hotels or spa resorts, every visitor is sure to find an ideal match to their budget, lifestyle, and aesthetic.</div>
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Greece is famous for its cuisine and delicious local dishes, which are based on top quality ingredients such as fresh vegetables and the seafood catch of the day, always enhanced with extra virgin olive oil for that added flavor.</div>
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Aside from their strong regional character, traditional Greek recipes are often infused with sophisticated blends of Eastern herbs and spices that make them stand out from similar cuisines from other European countries on the Mediterranean.</div>
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Make sure to try the local cheese products, “spoon sweets” and meat or fish stews, usually typical to one particular area. Likewise for the many Greek wines, like Robola in Kefalonia, and other spirits such as Ouzo and Tsipouro, or the less known mastic and fruit liquors.</div>
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Share your tasting selection either with family, a loud group of friends or your better half and you shall surely feel like you are in seventh heaven – whether sitting down at an old-fashioned tavern or a high-end restaurant.</div>
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The Greek countryside and isolated islands — primarily Ikaria in the Cyclades — are known for the high rates of longevity of their residents, attributed to the combination of a balanced diet and low-stress way of life. The latter is easily passed on to summer visitors, either domestic or international, and is among the most invigorating elements of a Greek vacation.</div>
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Either by the sea or in the countryside on the mainland, the Greek summer is forever linked to peace of mind, open-heartedness, limitless leisure and party time as you take life at a slow pace and empty your mind from worry.</div>
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Last but not least, there is this one purely cultural characteristic that can make the Greek vacation experience truly unforgettable and distinguish it from anything that the visitor has ever felt before in a foreign land.</div>
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The modern-day visitor can experience Greek philoxenia as it extends beyond a warm welcome into a genuine expression of generosity, courtesy, and heartfelt hospitality in this stunningly beautiful land.</div>
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Flying to Greece from the United States in the Summer of 2020 during the Covid-19 era may sound like a frightening and unsettling Odyssey, much like the original trip undertaken in ancient Greece, but the breathtaking beauty of the final destination will be more than enough compensation.</div>
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Still, as<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Greek Reporter’s</em> Anastasios Papapostolou discovered while flying last week from Newark’s Liberty International Airport to Athens via Switzerland, the overall traveling experience might be more tiresome or difficult than before, but if you are not in a high-risk group it may be worth it.</div>
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A mother of two from New York said her family is relocating to Greece for the near future. “Given that the situation in New York is bad and because we think it will not change much in the near future, we decided to make the move,” she tells <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greek Reporter</em>.</div>
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Another passenger, a mother of a Greek teacher in New York City who went to visit her daughter in March, and was stranded there because of travel cancellations, said “I hope to reach Greece by tomorrow, as my previous two flights were canceled.”</div>
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Most shops were shuttered at the Newark airport. “All restaurants, coffee shops and duty-free outlets are closed,” another Greek passenger, a resident of NYC, complained.</div>
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All passengers were making liberal use of hand sanitizer and were wearing masks and there was minimal contact with airport staff at the departing gate.</div>
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During the overnight flight, before they landed at Zurich International Airport, passengers were handed out a form to fill in where they were asked questions regarding their health history and whether or not they had been infected by Covid-19.</div>
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After changing aircraft, they then began their flight to their final destination of Athens — and new forms were handed out to passengers to be filled in before they landed in the Greek capital.</div>
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Upon landing and entering the main terminal building, passengers underwent Covid-19 testing. The testing process, which takes less than twenty minutes, requires a saliva sample taken from the traveler.</div>
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The next day, when everyone hopefully receives their negative results, they are free to enjoy Greece.</div>
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The following is the most recently released list of rules for air passengers, as determined by Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:</div>
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International flights are allowed into Athens and Thessaloniki airports (however, there will be a continuation of the ban on flights from the United Kingdom and Turkey).</div>
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Arrivals to Athens Airport: If you originate from an EU + airport on the EASA affected area list or from Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Albania and North Macedonia, then you will be tested upon arrival.</div>
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An overnight stay, either at a designated hotel or at a hotel/residence of choice in Athens is then required. If the test is negative, the visitor is then free to travel to their final destination. If the test is positive, the visitor is quarantined under supervision for 14 days.</div>
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If your travel originated from all other airports, then you are only subject to random testing upon arrival.</div>
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Upon being tested, those visitors are free to travel to their final destination. If the test is positive, however, the visitor will then be quarantined under supervision for 14 days.</div>
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Arrivals to Thessaloniki Airport: All visitors will be tested upon arrival. An overnight stay either at a designated hotel or at a hotel/residence of choice in Thessaloniki is required.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Editor’s Note</span>: The guidelines on who and when can travel to Greece have been changed and are described in detail here: <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/06/01/greece-opens-to-all-tourists-regardless-of-nationality-on-june-15/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Greece Opens to All Tourists Regardless of Nationality on June 15</span></a></em></blockquote>
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Greece’s ministry of Tourism announced on Friday a list of 29 countries which it claims are relatively safe from the coronavirus and can send tourists to Greece starting on June 15.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;">Lebanon</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;">Lithuania</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;">Malta</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-left: 21px;">New Zealand</li>
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The Greek government will consider lifting the ban on citizens of other countries based on what it considers the success of pandemic control in each nation. Authorities say that the list of 29 countries will be expanded on or after July 1.</div>
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Currently, flights from the USA, UK, Russia, Italy, Spain, France and Brazil into Greece are banned.</div>
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ATHENS – Still hoping to salvage a summer season with the gradual lifting of the COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set a target date of July 1 for tourism to start.</blockquote>
<br /><br />That depends on whether there's any resurgence of the virus and how other countries deal with the easing of the pandemic, Mitsotakis having said while Greece will have strict health protocols that visitors should be checked before departures.<br /><br />Speaking to some 500 executives and analysts of the Boston Consulting Group, via teleconference, Mitsotakis said the challenge for the tourism sector in Greece during the current, pandemic-battered year, is to acquire a bigger share of a much smaller "market pie” this year, said Kathimerini.<br /><br />He also promised that a privatization program will go on and said there's more than ever a need for more investment in a "green economy" although critics said his New Democracy government wants to allow more development.<br /><br />Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said letting organized beaches to reopen May 16 when a heatwave predicted to bring temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit will be an “important test” as to whether social distancing requirements will be followed.<br /><br />“Everyone is watching Greece because, so far, it has shown an exemplary response to the pandemic. Now we are called upon to demonstrate that, with rules and maturity, we can enjoy the beauty of our country safe during this summer,” he said.<br /><br />This will be the best way to restarting domestic, but also foreign tourism, he added as beach clubs that violate the requirements to keep umbrellas and chaise lounges at least four meters (13.12 feet) apart will face heavy fines and could be closed. <br /><br />A government plan on transportation, including for airlines, is due to be released on May 15 and will detail health protocols required for air, shipping and road transport, so that both travelers and businesses know the new rules, he said.<br /><br />Tourism is the country's biggest revenue engine and brings in as much as 18-20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 185.29 billion euros ($200.3 billion,) needed more than ever this year.<br /><br /><br />Read more at <a href="https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_politics/arthro/greece_sets_sights_on_july_1_post_covid_19_tourism_kickstart-309350/">thenationalherald.com</a></div>
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Gerard Butler, the actor who famously portrayed King Leonidas in the Hollywood blockbuster “300,” embraced his real-life ties to the ancient Greek city of Sparta on Thursday night, when he was honored by the municipality at a special gala dinner.</div>
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The Scottish actor was seen getting animated on the dance floor as he celebrated with a number of well-heeled guests, just a day before running as a torchbearer for Sparta during Friday’s Olympic Torch relay through the region.</div>
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Butler was joined at the gala dinner by fellow actor Billy Zane, 54, who will also serve as a torchbearer. Zane is of Greek heritage; his family name of Zanetakos was anglicized to Zane by his parents.</div>
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The Scottish thespian was invited to take part in the relay as part of the celebrations for the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, on which his film was based.</div>
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The Hollywood star will forever be associated with the fierce battle cry “This is Sparta!” – a line which has become one of the more iconic in all of film history.</div>
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Speaking to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greek Reporter</em> recently, Butler described “300” as the “most intense and enjoyable movie I ever made,” adding “It made me feel Greek!”</div>
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The northern Greek city of <a href="https://usa.greekreporter.com/?s=Thessaloniki" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Thessaloniki</a> will celebrate the new Chinese “Year of the Rat” on January 6th with a performance by one of China’s major dance companies – the Chongqing Liangjiang Art Troupe – at the city’s Royal Theater.</div>
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The evening will feature amazingly-talented <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/?s=Chinese" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Chinese</a> acrobats and jugglers as well as a ballet and works from the Beijing Opera which will transport the audience to the splendor of the Orient by immersing them into a new world of color, motion and music.</div>
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This show, called “Happy Chinese New Year,” will mark the fourth time that the noted dance company has visited Greece’s second-largest city.</div>
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The show representing Beijing constitutes an example of the depth of the cultural interaction between Greece and China in the context of Greek-Chinese cultural exchange in recent years.</div>
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As part of their New Year traditions, Chinese people wear new clothes on that day to symbolize a new start and fresh hopes for the coming year. Their lucky color is red, which represents optimism and a festive attitude, according to ancient tradition.</div>
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Chinese New Year celebrations always include the famous dragon and lion dances, which are thought to be a form of prayer for good luck in order to dispel any evil spirits which may be lurking around.</div>
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The Thessaloniki event will be held under the auspices of the Municipality of Beijing and the Chinese Embassy in Athens, with the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization as the official host for the celebration.</div>
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The show will commence at 8 o’clock in the evening local time and admission is free of charge on presentation of a voucher, which can be obtained either from the Royal Theater’s box office or its website.</div>
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Greek athletes Giannis Antetokounmpo and Stefanos Tsitsipas were included on the list of the top 20 European athletes for 2019, as compiled by sportswriters from the European press agencies.</div>
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The winner of the award for the best European sportsman/sportswoman for 2019 is Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton from Great Britain. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal took second place, and Austrian alpine ski racer Marcel Hirscher came in third.</div>
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The Greek Freak took ninth place, with 46 votes, while young tennis sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas came in twentieth, with 17 nods.</div>
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A total of twenty-six press agencies took part in the poll, including AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE (France), AGERPRES (Romania), ANADOLU AJANSI (Turkey), ANP (Netherlands), ANSA (Italy), APA (Austria), ATHENS NEWS AGENCY (Greece), BELGA (Belgium), BTA (Bulgaria), CTK (Czech Republic), DPA (Germany), EFE (Spain), ELTA (Lithuania), HINA (Croatia), LUSA (Portugal), MNA (Malta), MOLDPRES (Moldova), MTI (Hungary), SID (Germany), STA (Slovenia), STT (Finland), TANJUG (Serbia), TASR (Slovakia), TASS (Russia), UKRINFORM (Ukraine) and PAP (Poland).</div>
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The list of the top 20 European athletes for 2019 is as follows:</div>
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1. Lewis Hamilton (Great Britain) – Formula 1, 151 points.<br />
2. Rafael Nadal (Spain) – tennis, 140<br />
3. Marcel Hirscher (Austria) – alpine skiing, 76<br />
4. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) – tennis, 71<br />
5. Sifan Hassan (Holland) – track and field, 69<br />
6. Virgil van Dijk (Holland) – football, 61<br />
7. Karsten Warholm (Norway) – track and field, 47<br />
– Marc Marquez (Spain) – motoGP, 47<br />
9. Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece) – basketball, 46<br />
10. Johannes Tingnes Boe (Norway) – biathlon, 44<br />
11. Therese Johaug (Norway) – Nordic skiing, 43<br />
12. Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain) – track and field, 32<br />
13. Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) – swimming, 31<br />
14. Mariya Lasickiene (Russia) – track and field, 27<br />
15. (Tie) Adam Peaty (Great Britain) – swimming, 22<br />
– Luka Doncic (Slovenia) – basketball, 22<br />
– Johannes Klaebo (Norway) – Nordic skiing, 22<br />
18. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) – football, 19<br />
19. Niklas Kaul (Germany) – track and field, 18<br />
20. Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) – tennis, 17<br />
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Nymphaio is a beautiful village located just outside Florina in West Macedonia, Greece. It has been often included on lists of the “Ten Most Beautiful Villages of Europe” in travel guides. It has also won UNESCO’s “Melina Mercouri International Prize” for its excellent management of the area’s cultural heritage and the surrounding natural environment.<br />
Nymphaio, which lies at an altitude of 1,360 meters (4,462 feet) is nestled along the slopes of Mt. Verno (also known as Mt. Vitsi), surrounded by dense forests.</div>
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Its unique architecture, impressive mansions made of stone, stone-paved streets and the incredible natural beauty of the surrounding area captivate all visitors to Nymphaio. The village has thankfully been able to maintain its original character, as all new buildings must strictly follow traditional forms of architecture.</div>
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Vlach nomads were the first people recorded to have settled here, in the early 1300s, and the town was formerly known as Niviesta or Nevesta all the way up to 1929. Beginning in the late 17th century, the town became one of the largest silversmithing centers in the Balkans, and it remained dominant in that industry for almost three centuries.</div>
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The glory days of Nymphaio are reflected in the impressive stone built mansions located all around the village. Although Nymphaio was affected by outmigration in the 1950’s and 1960’s, it has been revived today by the return of its people who wanted to come back to their roots in this ancient and beautiful mountain village.</div>
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The nearby village of Zazari and Cheimaditida Lake delimit an area of exceptional natural beauty in Florina. Nymphaio is a beautiful and vibrant place which offers visitors unique experiences, but at the very same time, it is a great example of the deliberate, careful type of tourism development which has taken place in the last two decades.<br />
The two nearby natural lakes, two of the largest in <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/?s=florina&submit=" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec;">Florina,</a> are worth visiting as they are home to hundreds of species of birds, mammals and fish as well as the ferruginous duck, which is protected as an endangered species.</div>
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Apart from its charming architecture and natural landscape, Nymphaio offers many activities for those who are lucky enough to visit. The <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/12/25/nymphaio-a-magical-winter-destination-in-greece/ARCTUROS" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">ARCTUROS </a>shelter, constructed by this non-governmental organization which protects brown bears, is located in a natural beech forest and is home to ten bears who formerly lived in captivity.<br />
Another interesting place to visit is the village’s picturesque Goldsmith, Folklore and History Museum, which includes authentic local furniture, traditional tools for jewelry making, and, of course, an array of jewels.</div>
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The Greek government intends to bring forward the deadlines for completing work on the <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/tag/amphipolis-tomb/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Kasta Hill Tomb in Amphipolis</a>, Serres so that the site can have visitors from early 2022 on, Culture Minister <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/tag/lina-mendoni/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Lina Mendoni</a> announced on Saturday.</div>
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During a tour of the site along with Central Macedonia Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the culture minister noted that due to the size and layout of the tomb the monument could receive groups of five to six visitors at a time.</div>
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After the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) unanimously approved the study for restoring the tomb and its surroundings on December 17, Mendoni noted that the first phase of the work can be completed six months earlier than the original deadline, in June 2021 instead of early 2022.</div>
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The minister also underlined her determination to work tirelessly to ensure that the deadlines can be brought forward, saying that everything was ready for the work to continue without obstruction after the completion of the first phase.</div>
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Asked when the monument could open for the general public, Mendoni said that there is much that needs to be done and pointed out that it had taken 20 years for the tomb of Philip in Vergina to open to the public, though modern means can make it possible to take less time to complete necessary works at the Amphipolis site.</div>
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“I live for the day the <a href="https://greece.greekreporter.com/tag/lion-of-amphipolis/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4db2ec; text-decoration-line: none;">Lion of Amphipolis</a> will be transferred to the Kasta tomb,” the regional governor said. “That will happen too,” was the culture minister’s answer.</div>
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Architect Michalis Lefantzis, who guided the minister and the regional governor around the site, noted that 330 large slabs of marble that were structural elements of the enclosure around the Kasta hill tomb had been transferred back there from the site of the Lion of Amphipolis, where they had been stacked in order to facilitate the excavation.</div>
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The slabs have now been placed next to each other like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, waiting for their precise position in the original structure of the enclosure to be determined.</div>
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After a meeting with the excavation staff, the culture minister appeared optimistic about the rate of progress but asked them to have a university team to resume the stalled examination of the bones found on the site.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Greek ultramarathon runner Yiannis Kouros has been called many things by his peers, running experts and the public: “The Running God,” “The Golden Greek,” “Modern Pheidippides,” “The Master of Pain,” “Unstoppable” and many others. And all these epithets are more than well-deserved.</span></div>
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Ultrarunning experts have also calculated the miles the 63-year-old Greek runner has run since high school and came to the conclusion that Kouros has covered the distance from the earth to the moon.</div>
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According to the website “Ultrarunning History,” the seasoned Greek athlete is the greatest ultrarunner of all time.</div>
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Kouros has broken more than 160 world records up to now — and perhaps most astoundingly, all of these remain unbroken. One of his peers, Canadian Trishal Cherns, has said, “There’s the elite, the world class, then there’s Yiannis.”</div>
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Kouros was born in Tripolis, Arkadia, Greece on February 13, 1956. Born into a poor, hard-disciplined family, he experienced a very tough childhood. He was only five when he was forced to perform manual labor to help the family economically.</div>
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He began running in a systematic manner at the age of 16 and soon devoted himself to long distance running, after his coach told him he was “too slow.” The hardships he had suffered as a child made Kouros a naturally tough, disciplined person who excelled in the punishing pursuit known as ultrarunning.</div>
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However, young Kouros had other interests and talents, too. He wrote 1,000 poems and became involved with music as well. He studied Byzantine and European music as well as singing.</div>
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He has released four records (two instrumental and two with vocals), writing all the lyrics and music himself. His poetry and music were inspired by Greek heroes such as King Leonidas and Greek Revolution fighter Theodoros Kolokotronis.</div>
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But Kouros’ true calling is undeniably ultramarathon running. He ran his first marathon at the age of 21 in 1977, clocking the very respectable time of 2:43:15. His times continued to improve, down to 2:25 in 1981.</div>
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He won the Athens Marathon in 1981. By 1983, the Greek runner had finished 25 marathons. He discovered soon, however, that he excelled far more at ultra distances, even longer than the traditional marathon.</div>
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It was that year that the Spartathlon started. The first such race – the distance from Marathon to Sparta, or 156 miles (251 km) – was run on September 30, 1983 with 45 starters. This was Kouros’ very first ultra-distance race. Event officials had estimated that the winner would arrive at Sparta in approximately 27 hours.</div>
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Kouros won with an official time of 21:53:42.</div>
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The Greek runner said that the English event sponsors refused to give him the cup, since they thought it was humanly impossible that a distance of 250 km could be covered in 21:50. However, as ultrarunning pioneer Dan Brannen declared, “He is the only runner for whom an accusation of cheating eventually became an honor.”</div>
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Kouros definitively proved that he had not cheated by returning to the race the next year, when he ran even faster, finishing in 20:25 — which has stood as a course record through to the present day.</div>
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In 1983 he also ran a three-day Ultramarathon in Austria and in 1984 he ran a six-day race in New York, covering a punishing 635 miles (1,030 km).</div>
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The Greek runner wrote about his experience in the New York race in his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Six-Day Run of the Century. </em><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</i>I had a fear of remaining a vegetable for the rest of my days, as after 24 hours, I felt my body no longer operating and I was carrying it without its consent.</div>
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“I thought I would not be able to walk again, though I made a conscious decision to write history. To expiate myself, I saw it as a sacrifice in an ancient drama. I knew I was leaving something behind me,” he explained.</div>
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He then wrote about finishing the effort: “I was running very fast, and because my toes were bleeding very much, many believed I would have to drop out. There I experienced how important the mental attitude is.</div>
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“I come to a point where my body is almost dead. My mind has to take leadership… I reached the stage to look at my body from above, from outwards, I mean like an out-of-body experience. I mean that your body has surrendered and you see yourself from above and behind and you somehow guide your body ahead. I am talking about incredible moments,” the ultra marathoner says.</div>
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In November 1984, he went all the way to Australia to run a six-day race in the city of Colac and finished first there. He repeated his victory by winning the <span class="nowrap" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1987, 1989 and 1990. </span></div>
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By 1990 Kouros had run in almost every ultramarathon held around the world. It was in that year that, because of the Greek state’s unwillingness to support his athletic endeavors, he was forced to emigrate to Australia, where he lived for ten years.</div>
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The ultrarunner returned to Greece to live in 2000 and continued running with great success, in Greece and abroad. It is indeed remarkable that in 2005, at the age of 49 in Australia’s “Cliff Young” six-day race he broke his own world record made fully 21 years earlier.</div>
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“In ultrarunning there are no real limits. One can go on and on,” Kouros has explained to interviewers. “I try to achieve something special in each race… What Pheidippides did, going to Sparta just for a message and bring back a message to the Athenians, I’d like to think of myself as a messenger.</div>
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The iconic Greek runner adds “I want to inspire, to give the message that something is doable. Everything is possible as far as I am concerned as long as you go for it.”</div>
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