On this coming Saturday, March 28, between 20:30 and 21:30, lights will be turned off around the world for an hour to mark ‘Earth Hour’. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to raise awareness of the environmental issues facing our planet. Earth Hour is one of the world’s […]
March 25 each year is Greek Independence Day, a national holiday celebrated annually to commemorate the start of the War of Greek Independence in 1821. This year, the 25th falls on Wednesday. In celebration of Greek Independence Day, towns and villages throughout Greece hold a school flag parade, during which schoolchildren march, some in traditional […]
The war in the Middle East has started to hit flight bookings, with airlines saying that the soaring price of oil would probably mean a rise in air fares by the end of the summer. easyJet’s chief executive, Kenton Jarvis, said that while the airline had hedged much of its fuel into next year, avoiding […]
Hidden holiday costs from card charges while abroad, to extra luggage and seat reservation fees, are making it harder to find cheap deals and budget while abroad. Here, Georgie Frost from ‘The Times’ newspaper, explains the most sneaky costs and how you can avoid them. The average price of an all-inclusive package holiday to some […]
This coming Sunday, March 29, at 03:00 in Greece (01:00 in the UK), clocks go forward one hour. The bad news is we will lose an hour of sleep, but the good news is the evening daylight will extend by an hour. British Summer Time was first established by the ‘Summer Time Act of 1916’, […]
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One of the most endearing and ancient Greek traditions and explicitly a way of life is ‘philoxenia’, which to this day sets Greece apart as a very special country to visit. Philoxenia is the value of hospitality, literally meaning ‘friend to a stranger’. There is much more to philoxenia than mere hospitality. Over the millennia […]
In recent years, the Greek islands have seen an ever-increasing number of ‘all-inclusive holidays’ being offered by the major tour operators. Whilst I understand the attraction of this format of holiday for some, such as families with young children, or those on a tight budget, they are sadly having a detrimental and irreversible effect on […]
As holiday companies endeavour to repatriate their customers caught up in the Middle East conflict, they are also cancelling March departures to Dubai, Qatar, Egypt (including Nile cruises) and Jordan, with summer flights dependent on the future situation in the Middle East. Concerning cruise companies such as MSC Cruises, Celestyal and TUI, they are also […]
We endeavour and usually succeed in bringing you information well in advance of forthcoming tourist events on Santorini. However, official bodies and organisations in Greece are habitually late in advertising their forthcoming programmes, often only days before they happen. Some don’t even bother to advertise at all, other than by word of mouth, or ‘flyers’. […]
