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• Famous Greeks [11]: Odysseas Elytis

  
  Odysseas Elytis 1911 - 1996Poet and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Odysseas Elytis is the quintessential Greek artist of yore; educated, worldly, passionate and utterly in love with homeland....

• Famous Greeks [3]: Georgios Papanikolaou

  
  Georgios Papanikolaou (1883-1962)Georgios Papanikolaou is the doctor who discovered the revolutionary ‘Pap’ smear test used to this day regularly by hundreds of millions of women as a means of early detection of cervical cancer....

• Open air cinemas

  Do not miss the opportunity to spend an evening in true summer Athenian style in one of the numerous summer open-air cinemas....

• Sailing & Yachting

   Second only to Norway in length of coastline in Europe and tenth in the entire world, Greece has always had a close relationship with the sea....

• 24h kiosks

  Run out of cigarettes, feel like reading a newspaper, craving for a chocolate, need a condom, or worst of all, someone stole your In Your Pocket guide at 5 in the morning? No worries, here is where you can find 24-hour kiosks:Kolonaki Sq....

• Athens Portraits [2]: Laiki man

  
  If you really want to get a taste of a country, you have to head for its outdoor markets. And in Greece that means the local weekly laiki (common) market....

• Athens Portraits [7]:The (Loud) Voice of the People

  
  In case you haven’t already heard it several times since arriving in Athens, this is where Democracy was born....

• A day at the beach

  There are dozens of beaches lining Athens’ southern suburbs, from Alimos all the way down to cape Vouliagmeni (Vouliagmeni Beach and Vouliagmeni Lake) and, should you wish to venture beyond, even further up to picturesque cape Sounion with its imposing ancient temple of Poseidon standing guard over the Saronic Gulf....

• Famous Greeks [10]: Yannis Tsarouchis

  
  Yannis Tsarouchis 1910 - 1989Widely-regarded as one of the most important 20th Century Greek painters, Yannis Tsarouchis followed two main approaches to his artistic career; the incorporation of the ancient Greek ideal as expressed by the Renaissance and the Baroque movements, and simultaneously rejecting these ideals....

• Athens Portraits [3]: Angling for business

  
  He’s lying in wait for you as you amble down the streets of Plaka. Lurking behind the colourful displays of souvenirs in the countless tourist shops or basking in the shadows of the many cafeterias and tavernas, he’s just waiting for you to slow your pace so he can pounce on you with a friendly smile and an eager “Yes pliz”....

• Day trip [1]: Delphi

  
  If you can’t get enough of ancient ruins during your stay in Athens, you should take a day off your sightseeing and head to Delphi, one of the most important archaeological sites in Greece and a hugely popular day trip among Athens visitors....

• Athens Portraits [10]: Pavement Entrepreneurs

  
  Got an appetite for a luxury brand, but the finances of a strapped-for-cash student? Fear not....

• CHRISTMAS IN ATHENS

  
  Athens gets less excited about Christmas and New Year than most of its northern European counterparts....

• BOOK PICKS - Greece in Print

  Fiction Zorba the Greek. Nikos Kazantzakis, Faber Fiction A young English writer (the narrator) inherits a mine on the island of Crete and travels there taking with him Alex Zorba, a middle aged man as an aide to run the mine....