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Go Fly a Kite! On Monday March 10 in Athens
Monday March 10 is Clean Monday (Kathara Deftera)
Bring your kite to Philopappou Hill and join in the fun and children of all ages continue the Greek tradition of kite flying on Clean Monday. Bands will perform traditional Greek music on a specially created stage throughout the day. Lagana (traditional bread), olives and halva will be [...]
Hellenic Festival Schedule 2008 (including the Athens Festival)
The organizers of the Hellenic Festival, which includes the Athens Festival, a program of live music and theater in Athens and in several outdoor venues throughout Greece has announced that they will be announcing the program for 2008 at a press conference on Tuesday March 4, 2008.
There is nothing that compares to a musical performance at [...]
Eating local in an Athens winter
If you’ve ever been to a Greek restaurant outside of Greece, you are certainly familiar with the ubiquitous “Greek Village Salad”, aka “Village Salad”.
The ingredients never vary, whether you are dining in Chicago’s Greektown, New York’s Astoria, or Paris’ St. Michel, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green peppers, feta topped with a few Kalamata olives. And of [...]
How to find your way beyond the Acropolis and off the beaten path in Athens
This blog is about exploring true Athens and real Greece. Oftentimes we’ll visit places that may in fact be located within the most commonly touristed areas, but they don’t appear in most guidebooks and on most tourist maps of Greece. This section will include various maps with directions to specific places mentioned in our blog [...]
Peloponesse journey
Just 2 hours by car from Athens is a world full of history, nature, mountain ranges that hide villages where life moves at a different pace, beaches only locals know and fishing ports untouched by time and tourism.
Ariston - Grab a bagful and have a pita party in Syntagma Square!
10 Voulis Street, Syntagma Square (closed Sunday)
From Syntagma Square, face McDonald’s and walk one block down Ermou, Ermou is the center street just to the left of McDonald’s. At the first street, which is Voulis, turn right. Go 1.5 blocks down and you’ll find the bakery on your left hand side, just after one of [...]
Zeidoron - Food is life’s gift at this Psirri eatery
10 Taki and Agion Anargiron 210 321-5368
We stumbled upon Zeidoron one sunny autumn afternoon while exploring Psirri when Carole’s parents were visiting from Chicago. Knowing that Psirri restaurants are often excuses to operate until the wee hours as a club, we had about given up on finding anything really surprising in the neighborhood (that doesn’t [...]
Alegro - Ag. Fanouriou 6 at Imittou, Pagrati
One might wonder how come all the restaurants we write about are great. The reason is that we go to many places that we spend alot of time eating at places that we don’t write about …
Our quest usually takes us to side streets and places that are not usually written about or visited [...]
Free live music for all - Cultural Organization of Athens Events 2008
The cultural organization of the city of Athens has announced the performance schedule for the first four months of 2008 for their new “multi-space” in Neos Kosmos. The new cultural venue opened in November and promises to be a must visit on the agenda of anyone visiting Athens. The Neos Kosmos Cultural Center, or “Multi-venue” as it is [...]