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Greece by moonlight

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Wrote an interesting post today on livingingreece.grThe first paragraph is here:
Archaeological sites and museums all over Greece are open late each year on one hot August night to celebrate the largest and most luminous la luna. This year, that night is August 16.*
Whether you prefer to keep it low key and hum […]

Tags: Greece · Travel · Athens · free events Greece · traveling in Greece

Greek homes burglarized by takeaway scam

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Made an interesting post today on livingingreece.grThe first few lines are here:
Residents might want to think twice about how they order takeaway food as a way to safeguard their home, with the recent spike in burglaries coinciding with Greek cities going empty in August.
A number of homes in the northern and suburbs […]

Tags: Greece · Athens · Homes in Greece · food delivery Athens · food delivery Greece

Birthplace of what?

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Blogged something interesting today on livingingreece.grHere’s a snippet:
Do you know who Nino is? I actually like some of his music, so this is not a criticism of him, but two thoughts come to mind when I see things like this:
a) “Get some new material” — a popular saying from one of […]

Tags: music · Greece · Nicole Kidman · Nino

KTEL Buses of Greece

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Did an interesting post today on livingingreece.grHere’s a snippet:
KTEL, the long-distance bus network of Greece, is a vital part of traveling within the country since the terrain limits destinations reachable by train. With the rising price of fuel, even car travel can be cost prohibitive.
Below are some links to local KTEL […]

Tags: Greece · Public Transportation · KTEL

Unhappy urbanites, in and out of Athens

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Blogged something interesting today on livingingreece.grThe first few lines….
Residents of Ioannina, Volos, Larissa, Iraklion, Hania, Patras, Kavala, Serres, Thessaloniki and Piraeus
What is the biggest problem?
48 percent, traffic
15 percent, unemployment
15 percent, cleanliness
13 percent, pollution
General view of your city?
90 percent, parking is “a very big problem”
80 percent, life is too expensive
80 percent, ample […]

Tags: Greece · Athens

The nightbird

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Kat Blogged something interesting today on americaninathens.wordpress.comThe first bit is quoted here:
Our proximity to the mountains and open spaces with trees makes it possible to breathe clean air despite the main road nearby and enjoy sounds reminiscent of a village. I await nightfall and the sound of the nightbird.
I came to know […]

Tags: Greece · Personal

Your attention needed >

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

grhomeboy Wrote an interesting post today on grhomeboy.wordpress.comThe first paragraph….
> As we have announced, this blog has moved to its own domain name.
At our NEW blog you can still read all the latest news from Greece and Cyprus, just like we used to do it here, for the last two years.
Please update […]

Tags: Greece · Cyprus · news · Editorial · grhomeboy · homeboy · homeboy.gr · Homeboy Media News

Read us at our own brand NEW blog

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

grhomeboy Posted something interesting today on grhomeboy.wordpress.comThe first few lines….
As previously announced, this blog, Homeboy Media News [grhomeboy.wordpress.com], has moved to its own domain name and therefore no updates will be posted here.
On the contrary, all latest news from Greece and Cyprus, are being posted in our brand NEW blog and you […]

Tags: Greece · Cyprus · news · Editorial · grhomeboy · homeboy · homeboy.gr · Homeboy Media News

Agnes Baltsa reunites with Stavros Xarchakos

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

grhomeboy Blogged about a good topic today on grhomeboy.wordpress.comHere’s a quick excerpt:
Internationally renowned Agnes Baltsa is scheduled to interpret Greek songs at the Athens Concert Hall on Thursday.
“Songs of My Country” will be revived at the Athens Concert Hall this week, under the tutelage of the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa along […]

Tags: music · Greece · Athens · MusicLife Greek · Agnes Baltsa · Athens Concert Hall · Stavros Xarchakos

Exploring gender issues at Bios

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

grhomeboy Blogged about a good topic today on grhomeboy.wordpress.comThe first paragraph….
An intriguing festival organized by the Goethe institutes of Southeastern Europe comes to Athens > Berliner Joy Gutthardt’s performances explore stereotypes of the female gender. The artist is one of many German performers who will be coming to Athens for the Genderpop […]

Tags: Greece · Athens · arts · Culture · Arts EventsGreece · Arts ExhibitionsGreece · Events · exhibitions · Bios Venue · Gender Issues · Goethe Institute