Archive for August, 2008
A perfect start to Santorini holiday
It is beautiful. Not in the Green pastures type way, but in the rugged Mediterranean way. It’s like nothing I’ve seen before and that makes it beautiful to me. I checked into my hotel, and go for a walk. The hills of Fira, where I am staying, are covered mostly with white villas that ::More
Posted in Santorini by Greece Travel Blog
Vagonetto Theme Park in Fokida
Vagonetto is the one and only Theme Park in Greece, one of the most spectacular places to visit in all of Europe. Cutting edge technology amplified by the dramatic surrounding of an underground mine, reveals the process of extracting bauxite. And for those of you wondering what bauxite is and why ::More
Posted in Fokida by Greece Travel Blog
Amazing Crete
I cried so much yesterday! I had to leave Crete and all my new amazing friends- that made me feel like they were family. I truly made the BEST friends ever and had totally different and individual relationships with each. AMAZING Yesterday they all walked me down to the bus stop and waited with ::More
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John Barron, a lover and student of Greece
Professor John Barron, who has died aged 74, was an eminent Hellenist. His Silver Coins of Samos (1966) is still the standard work, and he continued to publish intermittently in this area. His Introduction to Greek Sculpture was published in 1965, with a second edition in 1981. Among his most ::More
Posted in Greece Abroad by Greece Travel Blog
Rhodes is my favorite old town in all of Europe
Greece. What vague, yet lucid dreams are those memories of waters from which the very essence of the color blue seemes to have originated from. Made all the more beautiful by the barren scorched specs of earth that sit a top of it… Our gate-way to Greece was Rhodes (or Rodos as the locals ::More
