Greece is a very popular summer sun holiday destination, with many direct flights to the various islands as well as several inland destinations. Many package holidays to the North of Greece use the airport at Thessaloniki, with accommodation at the three-pronged peninsula of Halkidiki.
However, the area east of Thessaloniki stretching to the border with [...]

The snow continues to cover Stockholm and the temperature struggles to rise over freezing, so I thought it was time to revisit a trip I just took a few months ago to the sun – Hydra, one of the Greek islands closest to Athens. 
The trip took about an hour and a half on the back [...]

Part of enjoying your visit to any Greek town or city is to do as the Greeks do and sit with a coffee to watch the world go by. In the town square or by the harbour you’ll find the most popular cafés where both tourists and the trendy Greeks like to hang out. These [...]

This Christmas, in between the turkey and mince pies, I escaped to the gorgeous Greek island of Skopelos, by watching the recently released DVD of Mama Mia. The film is a frothy musical fantasy, with those catchy Abba tunes set against the idyllic Greek island setting. Of course this is the Greece we dream of, [...]

I read about Ionian weddings in a press release and was astounded by the excellent value for money weddings that they arrange in Greece. I wrote about the hiring your own Greek island for your wedding ceremony and a reception for 20 guests which costs 3800 euro in the Wandalust blog. I [...]

Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost their legal battle to restrict the use of the word Lesbian to residents of the Lesbos. Some local residents felt that the island was being brought into disrepute by the use of the term to describe gay women which originates from the love poetry of [...]

Greece has a new tourism minister, Aris Spiliotopoulos, who’d like to develop some less well known destinations in Greece. I think he must have been reading Europe a la Carte and decided to follow my lead. Top of his to do list is to market Thessaloniki in northern Greece as a hip city break [...]

Holidays in Europe specialise in bargain holidays to Europe with savings of up to 40% on High Street prices. Whether you are looking for a beach holiday or a city break they offer a value for money option backed up by their Price Match, where they will refund the difference, if you find the [...]

I’ve started a swicki, an intelligent search engine, for cultural and activity holidays in Europe. If you’re thinking of a themed holiday in Europe, whether it be walking, cycling, painting, horseriding, language, water sports, tennis or cooking, try searching in the swicki. If you find any great companies you add them to the swicki [...]

Charter flights from Stansted to Preveza will run from July 9 to September 2007. I visited the Preveza area, in the north western mainland of Greece, in May 2003. I thought it was a really beautiful area. I did visit Leftka but I spend more time exploring the mainland. I liked the Acheron [...]