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09 Dec
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Fly & Drive: The best of Peloponnese (9 days)

  • December 9, 2021
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On our 9-day trip we will explore the finest of Peloponnese, Arcadia, Mani, Monemvasia, Nafplio, and Argolida.

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03 Dec
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Fly & Drive: The best of Peloponnese (9 days)

  • December 3, 2021
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On our 9-day trip we will explore the finest of Peloponnese, Arcadia, Mani, Monemvasia, Nafplio, and Argolida.

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15 Nov
Blog, Greece

Ancient Olympia comes to life with artificial intelligence

  • November 15, 2021
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Thanks to a new digital reactivation project launched this week by the Greek Ministry of Culture and Microsoft

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24 Jun
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Greece ends mandatory face mask-wearing in public

  • June 25, 2021
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While the vaccination process continues normally.

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01 Jun
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Discovering Athens – Walking Tour

  • December 13, 2021
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from 45€

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04 May
Blog, News

Welcome to Greece!

  • November 15, 2021
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Welcome to Greece! Greece is opening its borders gradually, in a safe and doable manner. The first stage, from the 19th of ...

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29 Mar
Fly & Drive, Trips

Fly & Drive: Athens, Kythira, Peloponnese, Delphi and Meteora (15 days)

  • November 16, 2021
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TRIPS TO GREECE FLY & DRIVE ...

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25 Mar
Blog, Greece

1821-2021 Greek Revolution: 6 emblematic places

  • March 25, 2021
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On March 25, 1821, the Greek Revolution broke out for their freedom from the Turkish empire. An armed confrontation which led to the formation of the modern Greek state.

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11 Mar
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All you want is Greece – Greece announces 2021 touristic plan

  • March 11, 2021
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On May 14th, Greece plans to open its doors to receive tourists. And everyone is welcome because “all you want is Greece”!

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04 Mar
Blog, Trivia

Tsiknopempti and Kathara Deftera: the celebrations leading up to Greek Easter

  • March 4, 2021
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Among the many occasions to celebrate, we highlight Tsiknopempti and Kathara Deftera. But what are these about? Let us explain.

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Tsiknopempti y Kathara Deftera: los festejos antes de la Pascua griega

In the Orthodox religion, Easter is a celebration of great importance that is prepared with the “Opening of the Triodion”, the religious book that contains the subjects corresponding to the fasting period before Easter and during the weeks prior to it.

One of the highlights of this period is “Tsiknopempti“, the “Thursday that smells of meat“. Similar to Fat Thursday, friends and family gather and have great barbecue parties and masked dances. If you walk around the streets during Tsiknopempti, almost all butcher shops and souvlaki shops have barbecues offering tapas to passers-by.

Do not miss the opportunity to go to a traditional tavern, enjoying music, Greek wine and many meat “mezedes”!

Eleven days after Tsiknopempti, it is celebrated on Clean Monday, or “Kathara Deftera“, “Kuluma”, just as Catholic countries celebrate Ash Monday. Its celebration marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent.

This celebration has a great family value and people usually celebrate it by making excursions to nearby fields or mountains to have “direct contact” with nature. Those who stay in Athens combine nature and culture, visiting the various hills and often the Filopapos.

Of course, kites are the highlight for children! You can buy them from sellers in all parts of the country and with different printings, but still, some families still do them themselves. The trick to making them fly is secret and always depends on the wind, but it’s worth trying!

If you cannot make your kite fly, do not worry, you’ll have a festive lunch waiting for you! 

The 40-day Lent means practically, among others, a great change in diet. The consumption of meat, eggs and “dairy products” is out of the diet until Easter Sunday.

On this day they eat mainly vegetable dishes, legumes, seafood, squid, shells, octopus and cuttlefish, ointments and olives. All accompanied by wine, tsipouro and ouzo. However, you shouldn’t miss the “taramosalata“, a typical dish with tarama that is salted roe and cured of carp and the “lagana“, the unleavened bread, traditionally made only on “Clean Monday”.

The most common dessert that you will try during Lent is the typical Greek sweet called “halva” a semolina pudding (and it’s delicious!). In addition to the halva, try the traditional spoon sweets -called like that as it is necessary to eat them with a spoon- and these are figs, walnuts, rose petals, etc., all with a kind of syrup.

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