Thassos from the air
I got some nice photos from the owner of the villa Kastanies in the village of Kazaviti, near Prinos.
See places on this island from a different angle. I think you'll get a better idea of the size and layout of the island.
When I have time, I will mark a certain villa in these pictures, to help you comprehend their distance from the beach and town.
Kekes Beach, Thassos Island
One of the beauty of Thassos is in the variety of beaches.
There are plenty of them for everyone's taste.
If you are not one of those who like a monotonous sandy beach with a long shallow, you might like Kekes beach because everything is the opposite of that.
In fact, everyone likes Kekes, even those who love sand.
Well hidden in a pine forest, this beach is different from others.
It has two bays,
Easter on Thasos
The best time on Thasos is the time around Easter. It is because of the beautiful weather, holiday atmosphere and the arrival of the first tourists. Somehow everything seems merrier, the sea is “more blue”, the people are happier...
This year, an unusually great number of tourists came to Thasos for Easter. Most of them were Greek and Romanian. All of the cafés and restaurants were open, even the ones that
Parga by Milica
When I first got out of the tourist bus and stepped the Parga ground, I can freely say that I fell in love immediately. I knew from before that Greece was beautiful and had many beautiful landscapes, beaches, bays, many beautiful islands that need to be seen, but I will never forget the feeling that I have in Parga, nor can it be measured with something else.
Simple fascination with narrow
A record number of tornadoes and leeches in Greece
Last year, (2017), Greece recorded a record number of smaller tornadoes and water leechers, a total of 145. These data were published by the National Observatory in Athens.
There were exactly 136 aquatic leeches and 9 tornadoes, of which the 5 strongest in Corfu and Paxos caused more material damage.
This is the largest number of ever recorded water leeches in Greece. In Europe, last year there were a total of 616.
The average temperatures of the sea in Greece
Inspired by the many questions you are sending to us in relation to the sea temperatures in some regions in Greece which we present on our website, we decided to collect and present data on the average maximum and minimum temperatures by months during the summer season.
By clicking each individual place on the map will take you to a diagram with more data.
Diagrams we have separated show the average of
Museums in Athens and Thessaloniki
Greece is a country with one of the oldest histories in the worls and it is considered to pbe the cradel of the civilisation. There are almost 18 localities on the Unesco World Heritage list. You can find the remainings in each part of the country and that is why the archeological diggings never stop. Every day new informations and things are beeing found and they are helping us understand
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Up until a few years ago the leader in the carnival organization was Panagia. That lead is slowly but surely being overtaken by Limenaria. ʺPure Mondayʺ is the first day of the Easter fast. On that day the carnival parade passes through Limenaria. The carnival is designed in a way that there are groups of people wearing theme masks, individuals representing the most popular people from show business and politics,
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