Monday, May 1, 2023

Travel Info

Get an Athens City Pass that is good for one or more days and allows entrance to sites - skipping the line of popular sites like the Acropolis, and the hop-on, hop-off bus. Get the TurboPass (also available for Rome, Florence and Venice).

A must see is the great theatre of Epidauros. Key Tours has guided day trips from Athens to Epidauros and the neighbouring site of Mycenae from £77 per person. They also have a 3-day tour of Epidaurus, Mycenae, Olympia and Delphi from Athens for $469 (3* hotel*) or $553 (4* hotel), and 4-day tour of Epidaurus, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi, Meteora from €482.

Visit Olympia & its museum with its statue of Hermes by Praxatilies! My Tours offers full-day tours from Athens from £62 per person.

On Crete, visit Knossos and the Archealogical Museum of Heraklion; Visit Knossos offers combined tours of Knossos Palace and Heraklion archaeological museum from £37 per person, transport included.

Take a short ferry ride to uninhabited sacred island of Delos with DelosTours

While visiting Rhodes stay at the Ottoman-era boutique hotel Marco Polo Mansion, Agiou Fanouriou 40-42, Rhodes (Old Town). Doubles from £75, breakfast included.

Lesbos has more than a dozen wineries, but Methymneos Wines – which was the first to revive the chidiriotiko grape on lava-rich soils from Lesbos’s petrified forest – is a leading light. Methymneos Wines offers free wine-tasting tours from August 1 to September 20, between 10:00 and 14:00.

From the Telegraph article The 30 Greatest Holidays in Greece.

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