Archive for November, 2008
In Santorini and Naxos just after the US elections
Our outlook on life improved once our boat landed and were picked up and taken to our hotel for three nights, Manos Villas. Our room was huge, with a nice balcony overlooking the pool. Since it was the low season, Kamari was a ghost town, but we lounged around for a little while and relaxed on ::More
Posted in Naxos, Santorini by Greece Travel Blog
A winter in Athens long ago
Our sitting-room fronted the south (with a view of the Acropolis and the Areopagus), and could be kept warm without more labor or expense than would be required for an entire dwelling at home. Our principal anxiety was, that the supply of fuel, at any price, might become exhausted. We burned the ::More
Posted in Athens by Greece Travel Blog
Lyravlos Free Concert of Ancient Greek Music in Athens
If you are still in Athens, perhaps you’d like to listen to some old music, as performed by Lyravlos Ensemble of Ancient Greek Music. The concert is free for all and is given at the Odeon of Philipos Nakas (41 Hippokratous street, Athens center, tel. 2103634000), November 19th, 8.30 pm. ::More
Posted in Athens, Events in Greece by Greece Travel Blog
Weekend greetings with the 5 o’clock song by D. Roussos
A friend of Greece Travel Blog sends us this message: “Have a nice weekend with an old song from Demis Roussos: It’s five o’clock and I walk through the empty streets thoughts fill my head but then still No one speaks to me My mind takes me back to the years that have passed me ::More
Posted in Greece by Greece Travel Blog
Greek islands is like a different world!
Ios seemed very quaint and villagey, and us 8 Americans may easily have been the only non-locals on the entire island. We heard that near our hostel was a huge marble amphitheater, so we decided to scout it out. We hiked up around the hill in search of it, and suddenly this little Greek man pops ::More
