Destination: Greece

Day 2

Sun, 5 Jun 2011 | By oulupulu | Views [210]

What do first time visitors to Athens always do...? So, realising that time in the morning was pinched, to say the least, we checked out of the hotel, took a taxi to the Acropolis, and then went up to check it out. A pile of crap.... Read more >

Photos: Crete - First Impressions

Sat, 4 Jun 2011 | By elishacurcio | Photo Gallery

Day 1

Sat, 4 Jun 2011 | By oulupulu | Views [203]

It was raining when we landed at Athens airport. We had left Oulu at 6:30 for an unhurried journey to the airport, getting there in plenty of time. The AirBaltic flight left on time but landed 27 minutes late, giving us 3 minutes to get to the next ... Read more >

Greece... Ancient Ruins, Olives, Feta, Pistachios & Sun!

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Views [1030]

Day One After landing in Athens I made my way to the hostel, which involved a myriad of public transport in true Greek style… on the way from the airport the bus managed to clip the back of a car because it was partly in our lane! The car ... Read more >

Tags: athens, corinth, delphi, epidaurus, greek islands, kalambaka, meteora, thessaloniki

Photos: Thessaloniki

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Photo Gallery

Tags: northern greece, thessaloniki

Photos: Greek Islands

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Photo Gallery

Photos: Northern Greece

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Photo Gallery

Photos: Peloponnese (Southern Greece)

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Photo Gallery

Photos: Athens - Land of the Gods

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 | By cokeeffe | Photo Gallery

The Perfect Sunday on Paxos

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 | By ailsa | Views [864]

The afternoon is fading as I wander through Corfu town’s tired alleyways. Past shop owners puffing on cigarettes and hot air, the shelves behind them crumbling with unwanted souvenirs. And restless in a country where every day feels like Sunday, we sail ... Read more >

My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By travelogue | Views [331] | Scholarship Entry

The world is a mysterious place.Traveling from one place to another brings us closer to the principles of nature, to the way that people function in another culture, thir values,beliefs,customes and attitudes and enriches us with new lifelong experience.... Read more >

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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 | By greeklish | Views [236] | Scholarship Entry

The Athenians are like all city-dwelling Greeks: they make an art out of arguments, they revel in being loud and they relish their polemics. But the joy of being in Greece is that you will never be left in doubt about what they are thinking. The ... Read more >

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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - My Big Adventure

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 | By raniamania | Views [443] | Scholarship Entry

Cold sea versus challenging gorge “Nobody ever mentioned that the final reward of the hike would be entering a fridge” I thought to myself. We were a mosaic-group of 16 people coming all over the world, sharing the same goal on this Saturday dawn: to ... Read more >

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My Travel Writing Scholarship 2011 entry - Journey in an Unknown Culture

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 | By smannering | Views [372] | Scholarship Entry

The Jewel of the Isle The waters of the Aegean are so blue in early July they seem violet. The cliffs of Santorini, stark and rust red as they rise from the sea, turn almost black in the hot afternoon sun. Standing at the bow of the huge ferry, my ... Read more >

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3 weeks in Greece

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 | By hellas | Views [492] | Scholarship Entry

Travelling is like dreaming: an open dimension, paradoxical and confused. For us it became a kind of “adventure inside adventure”, discovering away the beauty of our relationship. With you I loved the Greece magnetic and pure, piece of earth pounding ... Read more >

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