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12-Day Pylos Guide – History, Myth, Beaches, Culture
This 12-day Pylos guide is designed for travellers who want to explore the Western Peloponnese slowly and intelligently. Based in and around Pylos, Messinia, it combines mythology, archaeology, beaches, walking, sport, food, and living culture – with enough breathing room to…
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In search of Odysseus – From Hollywood to Ithaca
Five Star Greece’s insider guide to the Odyssey “Sing, oh muse of the cunning hero, the wanderer, blown off course…” Let us blow you off course and help you discover your Ithaca. Where was Nolan’s The Odyssey filmed in Greece? While we Greeks, and especially we Ithacisians, are…
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Discovering Tinos
A Guide to the Island’s Most Beautiful Villages Let me begin by saying that the thing which best illuminates the special character of Tinos is that its bus stops are carved from marble. Not commissioned-by-a-hotel-group marble. Just marble, carved by local hands, because on…
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What to Do in Aegina in 10 days – from Five Star Greece
Aegina is one of the most rewarding Greek islands to explore slowly. Just 30–40 minutes from Athens by ferry, it offers a rare combination of ancient archaeology, living island traditions, pine-covered hills, pilgrimage sites, walkable villages, and a world-famous pistachio…
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Hiding away in Halkidiki
Sometimes one just wants to stay home, not see anyone, and pretend the outside world doesn’t exist. If only home were seamless luxury, lapped by pale blue waters, fringed with a sandy beach, nestled in a fragrant pine forest, gazing over endless peaceful sea views, and staffed…
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The 8 Best Beaches in Paros
So, you have done your homework on the islands in Greece, chosen a villa on Paros, you have sussed out the prettiest villages, the coolest bars, where to eat, the cutest boutiques and where your friends are staying, you have even got the day trips by boat arranged. That just…
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Mykonos- back to its roots
My father’s family were an old and not very ambitious Greek shipowning family- hence my working for a living. His generation though knew how to live well, and was the generation which “discovered” Mykonos, fell for its gorgeous little port with its maze of alleys, its hillside…
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Brigands, revolutionaries, heroes, poets, romantics and dreamers –
200 years ago, it was agreed by all except the Ottomans, that what the world really really wanted, was… Greece. How could there be a Europe without it? This year is the bicentenary of the War of Independence where poets, peasants, priests, and princes joined the trickle that…
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Five Star Greece takes you on a musical adventure – Introduction
We are blessed with a fabulous network of friends and contacts, and Pavlos Carvalho has thrilled us all by agreeing to make a series of videos to show some of the secrets behind Greek music – the history, the rhythms, the voices, the instruments, the passion, so that we can…
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Angelina cooks…. Part 2 – Giouverlakia with Avgolemono sauce
That is meatballs in egg and lemon sauce to you… This is a unique Greek combination of flavours and for us, the most delicate and evocative taste sensation in Greek cooking. Greek mothers make chicken broth with avgolemono sauce and rice for any ailment from a broken leg to a…