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Egnatia Odos - between East and West

Egnatia Odos is a famous Greek highway that we all take on our way to popular resorts. This road once connected the Eastern and Western Roman Empires.

Via Egnatia was built in the 2nd century BC, beginning in Durres, Albania and ending in Byzantium on the Bosphorus. It passed by famous cities: Durres - Ohrid - Edessa - Thessaloniki - Kavala - Alexandroupolis - Istanbul.

Via Egnatia, is actually part of the

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Santorini - magical volcanic island

Santorini is located in the Aegean Sea and it's the southernmost island of the Cyclades island group. The island covers an area of ​​76km2 and it's one of the largest marine extinct volcanoes in the world. On this most romantic Greek island, you will enjoy in this exquisitely clear water while perched on the rim of a massive active volcano in the middle of the sea, as well as the

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Ierissos

Christos Karastergios is an active member of Facebook group Live from Greece and his comments and posts make a good contribution to the group.

Christos lives in Ierissos, and since there is little information about Ierissos and Athos on the Internet, we will try to change that.

What's interesting is that Ierissos is the only place on Athos where native Greeks live, while in other places people from Asia settled in.

Christos is

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Chios - the island of wild tulips and orchids

Chios belongs to a group of islands called Cyclades, located in the Aegean Sea, very close to Turkey.

Except for the mastic, Chios is famous for its untouched nature and its rich flora.

Staying in Chios in May is a real pleasure because of the beautiful nature.

The autochthonous species of Tulip grow in Chios, that the islanders call "lalades". In March wild fields and meadows are covered with these beautiful plants.

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Tolls

One new toll booth was planned to be set in Egnatia Odos, nearby Asprovalta.

In April started the construction of one more on the way Thessaloniki - Seres - Promahonas, so the travellers from Bulgaria to Greece will have some extra costs in the future.

The third toll road will be set on the road Thessaloniki Oreokastro, and will wait all tourists who take a detour around Thessaloniki to the Chalkidiki and

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Farmacy

Author of the text: Ivan Milicnic

We have already talked about the travel insurance and how it is one of the things that you should definitely have with you while traveling. The medications that doctors prescribe you while you are on holiday are usually covered by the insurance. When you buy them you should pay for them and when you get back to Serbia apply for the refund. There is also

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Memory of childhood and beautiful Greece

Author of the text: Darko Antić

Ever since in 1976, me and my sister Aleksandra, my father and mother put into the newly-acquired deep yellow car (Zastava 101) along with the huge brown leather case, over-filled and barely closed orange portable fridge and told us in the dawn, that we were going to go to the sea in one foreign and beautiful country, called Greece, and in the place Stavros, and

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Record In Greece

For the last three years the number of tourists in Greece has increased by 2 million per year.

Last year it was visited by 30 million, and this year it was expected to be visited by 32 million tourists.
It is a great success for the country that was before bankruptcy and exit from the EU.

Many doubted that Greece will reach the projected 32 million this year, but it seems is's going

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