A Norwegian Who Explores Greece on Two Wheels

A Norwegian Who Explores Greece on Two Wheels

A few of his favourite biking routes Thessaloniki-Kozani-Ioannina-Patra-Aigio-Megara-Salamina-Piraeus-Volos-Skiathos-Volos-Larissa-Katerini-Thessaloniki Period: two weeks This was my first journey of 2023, in March. The outdated street from Kozani to Ioannina via the...
Vasilikos: A Farm Bistro in the Heart of Northern Greece

Vasilikos: A Farm Bistro in the Heart of Northern Greece

The cheeses are made by Nikos Katsamperis in neighboring Kariotissa. Vasilikos is on the coronary heart of a group of high quality purveyors, providing meats akin to pork from a local breed of pig (the ‘Ellinikos hoiros’ – Greek pig) raised on Makis Tapkos’s farm in...
Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

Modern Love: Couples Who Shaped the Culture of 20th-Century Greece

One Single and Everlasting Greece –Rallou Manou and Pavlos Mylonas “Δεν υπάρχει άρχαία και νεα Ελλάδα, αλλά μόνον Ελλάδα, αιώνια, ζωντανή και ωραία” (Ελληνικό Χορόδραμα 1950-1960 1961, p8)  “There isn’t any distinction between ‘historic’ Greece and ‘fashionable’...
THE BEST MUSEUMS IN GREECE

THE BEST MUSEUMS IN GREECE

Museums on the Greek Islands   Bouboulina’s Museum, Spetses Bouboulina was a hero in the course of the Greek Conflict of Independence when she was an Admiral within the Greek Military. Each her husbands had been sea captains and she or he took on the household legacy...