Photos from Greece

Is interesting sometimes to check out what Google returns as related images for some queries. I will start with the one that I most enjoy:

My Google query was: house in Greece, and the beautiful Joanna (I got the name from the source link of the photo) was the fourth image of the returned Google images. Well, I do not know how much related Joanna is with houses in Greece, but the image is bringing back to our memory all that young ladies and boys working at the holiday resorts of Greece. I am sure that as me, you thought that Joanna is relaxing due to the summer holidays. Well this is not true since Joanna is having a break after a long day at her workplace in Mykonos.

The next query was: holiday in Greece. The image came as the second most related one. Yes is true, google images somehow reflects what most probably you will meet in the Greek Beaches. But is interesting that even Google's algorithm relates Greek holidays with beatiful ladies:)



I tried a more general query: Greek, and I obtained that photo. Another evidence that Google's algorithm and its image selection relates Greece with ladies.




Well I hope that you enjoyed this post and that you still plan to visit Greece soon. My next post will be about books and bookstores in Greece. Suprisingly enough Athens especially is a real publishing center. I will post soon!

If you are still planning to view or buy some Greek Properties, please have a look here: Properties in Greece.

Events & Festivals!

Every May is taking place “The Homereia” in Ios island. Legend has it that the great poet Homer, (supposed author of The Iliad) is buried on the island.

To honour his memory, every year there are cultural and sporting events including folk dancing, painting, and running races as part of this vibrant cultural festival. Leading figures from the world of culture and the arts come here for the three-day arts extravaganza. Readers of the poet's epics may want to join in and make the most of this island while the early summer allows a quieter experience of Ios before August sees it over-run with drinking holidaymakers.

Every August Cyclades Islands are full of festivals.

In Tinos is the fish festival. The beach at Aliki hosts the annual Fish Festival, with traditional dance and song going on through the night to the early hours. There is plenty of sustenance on offer, including fried fish dishes and wine.

In Santorini is the Jazz Festival. Held in an open-air cinema in the town of Kamari, the Santorini Jazz Festival is an annual series of concerts from local and – increasingly –international jazz musicians. Founded in 1997 by the cinema's owner and an Athenian musician, the festival has since played host to most of Greece's leading jazz bands, along with groups from Poland, France, Austria and the USA. The programming is eclectic, taking in everything from bebop to funk, and the outdoor location makes for three enjoyable evenings of music.

Greek Media

In this post I would like to give you some information about the Greek TV channels. I am sure that for some of you visiting greece soon would be interesting to know what you should expect from the Greek Media.

Well, Greek media and especially TV stations are very popular in Greece. I am sure that at any small shop selling cokes or chips you will see a tv screen being tuned in a TV frequency. Yes!
Greeks are TV-addicted.

There are public and private broadcasts. By public we refer to channels owned by the government while private are TV stations owned by media companies, publishers and other organizations. Note that the are not really controlled by the government but mostly managed. Off course the governments influence to the public channels is strong, but not much as in other countries.

The channels are:

• Mega Channel: http://www.megatv.com/ Quite popular for news and shows.
• Antenna Channel: http://www.antenna.gr/ A big competitor of the first one.
• Alpha TV: http://www.alphatv.gr/
• Star Channel: http://www.star.gr Mostly for American influenced entertainment. Plays mostly American Movies and TV productions.
• SKAI TV: http://www.skai.gr/ A decent TV station with clear focus on Global and Domestic News, Sports and Culture. There is also an available Live section on the website.
• ALTER TV: http://www.alter.gr/ Watch it if you want to learn how a typical Greek Station might look like....
  

All the mentioned channels are private ones and the public
channels are:

• ET1-First Public program
• NET-second Public program
• ET3- The public TV channel of North Greece with headquarters at Thessaloniki.
  

Their links are available by: http://www.ert.gr/en/ You will find a quite well developed English section, with frequent updates.

I was planning to write many things, but I will keep this post more informative and short. Thus whenever you are visiting Athens, Mykonos, Syros, Santorini, Tinos or any other Greek Island, and you want to use the available screen of your room, please watch one of the channels above.

There are so many things that you could write about the Greek Tv and I am leaving it for later...
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Travel tips!

Hello!!

For the next few days I will post information about how to access the Cyclades islands.

Let's start with Santorini. Santorini is one of the most famous Cyclades island.

An important reason is the easy access that has. You can visit it by air or by sea. Everyday there are scheduled ship trips from Piraeus port, especially during the summer period. Many normal ferries and hydrofoils make daily trips to connect Santorini to the mainland Greece.

A classical ferry that departs from Piraeus needs about eight hours to reach the port of Santorini while more modern ferries need about seven hours. Santorini is also conencted to Thessaloniki (the trip takes about 20 hours) and Heraklion, Crete (4 hours by normal ferry). It is also linked with other Aegean islands, so you can combine your holidays.

Apart from normal ferries, there are also many hydrofoil itineraries to connect Santorini with other Aegean islands.

Using the plane you can choose among the everyday - scheduled flights from Athens International Airport (Eleftherios Venizelos) or using one of the thousands charter fights during the summer season. The National Airport of Santorini is connected to most international airports.

The flight time from Athens to Santorini is about 45 minutes and from Thessaloniki to Santorini about 1 hour and a half

Stay tuned,
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Summary

I am starting with wishing you a restful Easter.

In this post we give a summary of the houses for sale in Cyclades promoted by Properties in Greece. I hope that the following links will help you to search for your houes in Greece.

At this moment the Properties in Greece is hosting 55 property offers in Cyclades. In more detail:

• 11 properties for sale in Mykonos.
  
• 8 houses for sale in Tinos.
• 4 houses for sale in Milos
• 7 beautiful houses and villas in Syros.
  
• 12 houses for sale in Santorini.
• 9 houses for sale in Paros.
• 1 houses for sale in Naxos.
• 3 houses for sale in Kea.

From these 55 carefully selected houses, I would like to point some price distribution:

• 9 properties are up to € 100.000 .
• 8 houses with prices ranging from € 100.000 to € 200.00.
• 14 houses with prices from €200.000 up to € 300.000.
• 11 villas with prices ranging from €300.00 to € 500.000.

The last days we are looking to collect some interesting and quality property offers with prices around € 150.000 for helping our customers to choose from a variety of houses and prices.

Soon we will update you with more information of our research. If you are looking for a house in Greece and particularly in Cyclades, please contact us: Properties for sale in Greece and we will more than happy to support your searching.

Greek Posts

Lusso magazine is a relatively new magazine and as its title indicates is a magazine about Luxury. It was quite interesting to read some posts about Greece and I found them quite well posted.

The first article is about Thessaloniki, the second biggest city of Greece and the marketing center of North Greece and Balkans. Indeed Thessaloniki is a charmy town with great combination of history and modern architecture. Thessaloniki is full with historical places of modern and ancient times, with well operated musuems and excellent quality restaurants. Actually is a town for all tastes, and I can not imagine you not finding something to like there.

For those expecting to see Thessaloniki being similar to Athens will realize soon that Thessaloniki is so different from Athens. Off course both suffer from the same traffic problems and have apparent poor urban planning and etc. But this does not mean that Thessaloniki is not developing, and whatever the article states is far true: Thessaloniki Life

Regarding properties and houses in Thessaloniki, please note that Thessaloniki is very near to Halkidiki, thus combines the life of a big city with an easily accessible holiday resort like Halkidiki. The last years there is an increased interest for buying Properties in Thessaloniki. We will post more about property opportunities in Thessaloniki.

The second article is about the holiday resorts near Athens: Resorts in Athens. Indeed Lagonisi or Lagonissi is not only a great place for having luxury holidays in Athens, but a great place for buying properties in Greece. Read the post: Resorts in Athens and you will definitely understand to what I am referring to.

Thanks for reading,
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