World Media on Greece: Travel - 2007 Archive
Athens travel guide (The Daily Telegraph, 06.12.2007)
According to the article, the top-5 sites to see in Athens, are: Acropolis, the Ancient Agora, the National Archaeological Museum, the Benaki Museum and Mount Lycabettus. The article includes also lists of the top 5 hotels, restaurants and shops in Athens. Read more... |
Jane Foster's essential guide on Athens, refers to the newly-inaugurated
Between heaven and earth (Marlborough Express, 10.12 2007)
All monasteries are impeccably maintained, not surprising now that they receive healthy grants from the EU now they are recognised as a World Heritage Site. |
The magnificent mountain top monastries of 
The real Greek: The Aegean island of Evia (The Sunday Times, 25.11.2007)
A small but enthusiastic bunch of Britons has begun buying, attracted not just by Evia’s 400 miles of coastline and mountains rising to almost 6,000ft, but by the ease of access and the fact that unlike, say, Cephalonia or Crete, it is open for business all year round. Read more... |
Peter Conradi reports on the growing prospects of the property market in
My big fat greek holiday (Sunday Morning Herald, 10.11.2007)
Helen Anderson embraces the rich culinary heritage of old Greece on a trio of northern Aegean islands. According to the article, in these islands, "life is paced around ripening olives, wheat and grapes, rather than the European holiday season. If the tourists stopped coming tomorrow, these neighbours - Lemnos, Lesvos and Chios - would continue growing Greece's finest produce and island life would remain centred on the seasons, the farms, the church and the long lunch". Read more...
On a Greek Isle, Preserving Tradition (New York Times, 7.11.2007)
Emily Badger repots on the story of a couple, both originally from Greece and now American citizens and professors, who bought an 1800s two-story residential-commercial property in Poros and decided they wanted to keep “the life of the place”, turning the ground floor into an art gallery, the island’s first.
The gallery is open three months every summer and has three or four exhibitions during that time, chosen by Ms. Spinari to showcase both Greek art and international influences. This past summer she showcased the artist Stephen Antonakos, whose signature neon pieces have been a draw in New York for 50 years. Read more...
Greek and unique (12.10.2007, Financial Times)
The Nea Pentely Phytorio is a remarkable nursery on the slopes of the Penteli Mountain, brimming with scents of rosemary, lavender, wild cyclamen and other plants and herbs from the rich Greek countryside. Read more... |
English academic, historian and weekly gardening correspondent for the Financial Times, Robin Lane Fox has discovered a a "classical plant nursery in the most classical country".
Mediterranean Escape (Newsweek, 8.10.2007)
Newsweek’s Jessica Au chooses her favorite spots to eat, sleep, sightsee and relax in Athens and throughout Greek Isles Pano Koufonissi, Mykonos and Santorini. Read the entire article here.
Athens Riviera - The New Sleek Getaway (The Sunday Times, 23.09.2007)
According to Facaros: “the coastline is pronged with peninsulas and scalloped with coves. Its beaches stretch languidly along the sheltered Saronic Gulf, where the water stays warm enough for swimming well into October. And its resorts are hip, happening and full of beautiful people.” Facaros makes mention of almost all the beaches in southern Attica, from Glyfada, Voula, Kavouri and Vouliagmeni, down to Sounio and Anavyssos and gives a quick guide to the resorts and facilities they offer. |
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Kathimerini, 31.05.2007
Greece through the eyes of Matt Barrett
Travel Reviews on Greece from Travel Intelligence
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Walk through the heart of Crete (Telegraph, 21.07.2007)
Christopher Somerville, one of the UK's most respected freelance travel writers (telegraph.co.uk: Walk of the month), sets out for Crete on the eve of his 50th birthday. His plan is to walk from the east coast to the west on Crete, a journey of some 300 miles, achieved without the spurious technology - GPS, mobile phone, etc - that seems to be indispensable to today's walkers. Up then, along the old cobbled paths of rural Crete, across that incomparable landscape of rugged mountains and deep green valleys, with its tough little villages and fierce, friendly people. It's not easy going. Overcoming everyday adversity becomes the theme of the book. Somerville climbs Mt Psiloritis, birthplace of Zeus. He encounters monks and hippies, ancient shepherds and successful businessmen. His writing makes use of everything from ancient history to his own well-crafted poetry, and he has an eye for observation. By the time we reach his birthday and the coast, the "fear-strung ditherer" of the early pages has been replaced by a well-grounded traveller. Christopher Somerville, The Golden Step: A Walk Through the Heart of Crete, Haus Publishing, 2007 |
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