Being a Chicagoan who spends half her life in Athens means that I’ve become the defacto expert on everything Athens … friends, family, friends of friends and family of friends fill my email box with questions as they plan their Greek journeys. Their queries are many and varied, but by far the one which causes [...]

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1. A day in the old city, Plaka, Acropolis - wandering around Plaka you can visit the Folklore Museum as well, and of course, a visit to the Parliament, for the changing of the guard (Evzones — I never tire of seeing those tall, young handsome men in skirts :-).
2. A day trip to Delphi.
3. [...]

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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 [...]

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Ever since my first trip to Athens in 1989 I have been fascinated by outdoor street markets.  Back then large chain supermarkets were non-existent in Greece, so each neighborhood had it’s own outdoor market day.  And though today there are plenty of big supermarkets, Greek owned chains like A B Vasilopoulos and Veropoulos, and even [...]

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Today I visited the National Gallery of Art in Athens.  To my surprise, despite the tepid descriptions of this museum which I found in several guidebooks, I enjoyed a couple of hours there.  To begin with, the building is quite beautiful, airy and light. I think that I was expecting a museum that was filled with antiquities, [...]

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