Hotel Numbers Rise in Greece
(Travel Agent) Jun 30, 2009
A study, conducted by Athens-based tourism and hospitality consultant Dr. Dimitris Koutoulas, has shown the presence of well-known hotels in Greece has grown, with four percent of the properties, which control 19 percent of the total room capacity, being ...

Times of Malta
(New York Times) Jun 27, 2009
THE old men in skullcaps hiked up the cobblestone steps in the last bruised light of dusk. They passed Gypsy merchants draped in rugs that were for sale, engineering students on post-cafe strolls...

Striking traffic controllers to disrupt Greek flight for 4 hours Thursday
(Canada.com) Jun 24, 2009
Flights to and from Greece will be disrupted for four hours early on Thursday when air traffic controllers walk off the job in protest at air communication systems which they say pose a safety risk....

Athens and Thessaloniki: Greece's ideal short break cities
(Daily Mail) Jun 24, 2009
For a city so rich in history, Athens is surprisingly modern. While its most visible landmark is the fabulous Parthenon, which stands high on top of the Acropolis, the Greek capital is also a place buzzing with more contemporary...

Nafplion, Greece: My kind of town
(Telegraph.co.uk) Jun 23, 2009
The author James McCreet offers a guide to Nafplion, one of mainland Greece's most beautiful destinations....

Just back: waiting for Eric in Greece
(Telegraph.co.uk) Jun 12, 2009
This week's winner of our travel writing competition is Jane Smillie, for her account of waiting for a sea breeze in Lefkas, Greece....

Going swimmingly at beaches
(eKathimerini) Jun 09, 2009
Only Lithuania and Cyprus can boast cleaner beaches than Greece, according to the annual results of the European Commission and the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) report on the quality of bathing water in member states....

Thessaloniki: the Happening Place
(Quest Greek Islands) Jun 04, 2009
If you have bought a property, or live on one of the Greek Islands, why not make the most of it and take a short trip to the mainland to visit one of Greece's very best cities - Thessaloniki - the jewel of the north....

Sail away with Ulysses in the land of the Greek myth
(Daily Mail) Jun 04, 2009
Can there be a more wonderful place to explore by sea than Greece's fabulous Aegean? When the poet Homer recorded The Odyssey, about the ten-year voyage of the warrior Ulysses returning to Greece from the Trojan War...

Greek island villa prices cut
(Times Online) Jun 02, 2009
More properties on a delightful island are available at a discount this month. CV Travel , the luxury villa specialists, has cut the price of holiday homes on Cephalonia, the largest and most varied of the Ionian Islands, off the west coast of mainland Gr...

'I travel in Athens' guide
Jun 02, 2009
Transport and Communications Minister Evripidis Stylianidis presented a multilingual guide on Monday titled "I travel in Athens" that contains, among other things, the rights and obligations of passengers using public transport, as well as useful informat...

Greece: Taking the high Rhodes to culture and natural beauty
(Daily Mail) Jun 01, 2009
Four tabby kittens scampered among the fragments of stones and fallen columns, while their mother snoozed nearby in a Byzantine drain....

Chris Stewart: The start of the affair with Greece
(Telegraph.co.uk) May 31, 2009
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Chris Stewart tells how he fell in love with Greece - and became an accidental sailor....

425 Blue Flags for Greek beaches
May 28, 2009
Greece was awarded 'Blue Flags' for 425 beaches and eight marinas this year, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature announced on Wednesday....

Greek island-hopping by ferry
(Times Online) May 27, 2009
Once upon a time the best way was to island-hop by ferry. And guess what – it still is. Here are three classic routes...