The Hyatt Regency, Thessaloniki is offering special rates over the winter holiday period. While Thessaloniki is more than worth a special trip, gamers may enjoy visiting the adjacent Regency Casino ... Read More

While Paris Hilton may or may not ever get a Greek to the altar (see below), one famous Greek heiress is about to take the marital plunge on the lovely ... Read More

The "New Athens" is filled with thriving artistic neighborhoods. One of these is Psirri, packed with restaurants, art galleries, movie theaters, and shops. Did you bring your gramophone to Greece? ... Read More

Not since Helen of Troy have the words "Paris", "Greeks", and "Fighting" been paired so regularly in the press. But it seems that Paris Hilton, having broken up with ... Read More

The Olympic Torch for the 2006 Winter Games in Turin was lit Sunday in a glade in Greece where the buried heart of the modern Olympic Games founder Baron Pierre ... Read More

It's the holiday season in Greece, a time filled with joyous gatherings. And in Greece, at least until recently, happy occasions were always accompanied with the deliberate breaking of plates. ... Read More

If you're reading this page, you probably qualify as a hellenophile - one who likes all things hellenic and treasures Hellas, which is what the Greeks call Greece. The Hellenophile ... Read More

It's official - Olympic Airlines, previously Olympic Airways, will soon have a similar new name. Is Greece about to lose the Big O? Not likely. The slight name change ... Read More

Lefteris Theodossiadis at the The Rhodes News blog picked up a tale of Tom Conti, co-star of the movie "Shirley Valentine", considered by many to be the best thing that ... Read More

High on design, reasonable on prices, the trendy new Fresh Hotel is located near Psirri a few blocks off of Omonia Square. Popular with the young and upscale Greek business ... Read More

The controversial artifacts of Constantine II, King of Greece will become a tourist attraction after decades of mildew and rat infestations have taken their toll on the palace at Tatoi ... Read More

This Thursday, November 17th, is much more than just the day between November 16th and November 18th. The holiday commemorates a tragic day in 1973 when protesting students were gunned ... Read More

Caves make great breaks from the usual round of museums and archaeological sites. Saint Sophia's Cave south of Chania is easy to drive to, has a great café, and is ... Read More

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Unless last-minute government negotiations can stop a strike by air traffic controllers and other civil servants throughout Greece, all flights to, from, and around Greece will be cancelled for Thursday, ... Read More

Interested in new developments in the art and museum world? This regularly-updated blog is devoted to chronicling "Elginism" - the misappropriation of artifacts. While it is most interested in the ... Read More

This past weekend in Greece, runners from around the world participated in two races inspired by the famous ancient Greek runner Phidippides - the Athens Marathon and the Spartathalon. While ... Read More

While the near future of financially-challenged Olympic Airlines probably involves a name change and restructuring, it's business as usual for the time being. Airlines with difficulties often start tightening up ... Read More

Visitors to the quiet, remote island of Gavdos this week got a big surprise - a joint operation combining over a 1,000 Greek, Israeli, Egyptian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Algerian, and ... Read More

Ready for an escape? Why not discover the pleasures of Greece in November? The temperatures are cool, airfares and other prices are low, the monuments are light on crowds, and ... Read More