Ask any Greek and we’ll tell you philosophy started with Thales in 624BCE (just about predating Confucius and Buddha). It’s important to have a philosophy

We love September in Greece. Most of the world is back to work, and the families and crowds that cause long queues at our World

Today sees the start of the Olympic Games, a festival of hundreds of events across 32 sports in Paris. Interestingly we’re back where the modern

IF YOU NEED A HOLIDAY MUSE, NOWHERE IS MORE INSPIRING THAN GREECE Creative people often talk about needing a ‘muse’ to get their best ideas

In most of the world we’re coming up to Easter, the most important religious festival in the Christian calendar. Actually that’s not the case here

IT’S THE RACE ON EVERY MARATHON RUNNER’S BUCKET LIST – DON’T MISS OUT The Athens Marathon is a world classic, run largely along the route taken

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING GREEK We have a great tradition in Greece when we sit down to welcome friends to a meal – we

SUMMER 2024 ALL CRUISES ARE ROMANTIC – THIS ONE ESPECIALLY SO Few things in the world of travel are more romantic than hoisting sail and

SUMMER 2024 STARTS HERE Typically, the tourist season starts in Greece at Easter. Well, Greek Orthodox Easter anyway. Here in Greece we work to the

EXPLORE GREECE JOINS USTOA It was 2493 years ago this week that news reached Athens that a Greek army of 10,000, under the generalship of

…NOT TO FORGET EUCLID We Greeks know a thing or two about angles. After all, in Pythagoras and Euclid we have the originators of modern

AN ODYSSEY OF SUSTAINABILITY We Greeks lay claim to a lot of things. We think that’s fair enough – we’ve been making an impact on

People instantly associate Athens with the Acropolis. Actually the word ‘acropolis’ literally means ‘high city’ – so, something built on a hill. There are many

Fifty years ago the way to explore Greek history and the islands was by ferry, with a back-pack, sleeping on the beaches, staying where you

The Athens Marathon, which is run largely along the route taken by the Greek soldier Pheippides when racing to announce victory over the Persians in 490 BCE, is

Back in the 1960’s Mykonos, among the jewels of the Cycladic chain, was one of the original stopping-off-spots on the island-hopping ‘Hippy Trail’. No surprises really, there are

Athens was at the centre of all things classical about Greece. Nothing has changed – but what most people don’t realise is that some of

Crete is the largest island in Greece. It’s 5th biggest in the Mediterranean and, perhaps surprisingly, is 88th in the world in terms of size.

Everybody knows what a meteor is – a piece of space rock that burns up as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere and becomes a ‘shooting

While Greece is famous for her islands and some of the wonderful sites and sights they offer, there’s a whole lot more to see on

The Marathon season has moved to autumn. October 2nd sees the London Marathon, November the 6th brings the New York equivalent. Both are run on

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Most of us go on holiday hoping to find some amusement along the way. Nowhere are you better placed to do that than in Greece,