Athens Festival: June performances under the Acropolis
I’ve said it before, and I am certain I will write it many times over … an evening at the Herodeon is magic, and promises to be a...
Dancing in the Roman Agora
Wow! An evening of dance performance beneath the Acropolis in the Roman Agora. This one is a new venue for summer performance in Athens, (for me at...
Athens Festival 2012
The Athens Festival 2012 program has been announced, and this year the lineup includes 4 performances of Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Herod...
Golden amber where the road ends
About 19 km from Tripoli, in the center of the Peloponnese, where the road ends, nestled in the steep slopes of Mount Mainalon, there is a magical...
Hotel alternatives Athens
Traveling as a family to Greece? Athens has a growing number of furnished short term vacation rental apartments within an easy walk of the historic...
Epidaurus Festival 2012
Athens Festival 2012 The show must go on! The Athens and Epidaurus Festival may be a bit shorter this year, but it also returns to its Greek...
The Double Decker, Hop-on Hop-off Athens Sightseeing Bus
Late in 2008 a new bus arrived in Athens. Bright, shiny and red, with an open air second story, the bus looked a bit like it took at wrong turn...
Free days for museum & site admission in Greece
Although I still believe that admission fees to archeological sites and public museums in Greece are amongst the lowest anywhere – 12e for...
Giant shrimp – not an oxymoron – harbor dining year ‘around
Restaurant, Botsaris Fish Taverna, Akti A. Koumoundourou, No. 30, Mikrolimano / Tourkolimano / Garidadika, Piraeus, Greece You’d think the...
Psirri, where yesterday, today and tomorrow meet in Athens
Psirri is a neighborhood that is difficult to describe. In most travel guides it is described as a great tourist attraction with excellent...
Is that a Greek bagel?
Koulouria, not bagels (the only bagel I’ve ever found in Athens was in the restaurant at the IKEA near the airport. Sadly they would not sell me a...
Underground Art and Archaeology
Have you found yourself in Athens on a holiday, and the sites are closed? Or perhaps it’s a rare rainy day and you’d like to find a way...
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Greece, land of sunshine, true. But every once in awhile there are a few days of rain. It can happen anytime....
A Coastal Christmas
It’s Christmas time in Athens and once again Flisvos Marina, Athens mega-yacht marina, is being transformed....
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Sometimes you may find yourself with a long layover at the Athens airport, or traveling from Athens to an island and...
Sample the flavors of Greece
As readers of this blog know, I love food, and it’s also one of my favorite things to bring back to friends and...
Myths & Money in Greece
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Christmas 2011 in Athens
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[Street] Art Shopping in Athens
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50 paintings from Mount Athos by Ethi...
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Dalaras, Art of Guitar & Rembeti...
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Marinella at Botanikos in Athens
She’s back! Greece’s “Great lady of song” is back on stage beginning November 11, 2011 at...
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Athens Best Kept Secret
A place of sorrow, but also an urban art gallery in tribute to many The Athens “First Cemetery”...
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