The best fast food in Thessaloniki
The most famous fast food in Greece is: souvlaki (skewers), gyros, soutsukakis (greek kebabs) and burgers (patties).
A few criteria by which Greeks judge their fast food as good or bad are:
- the freshness of the meat and whether the skewers are homemade or not\,
- is the gyros homemade (made by hand) or is it ordered frozen (as it usually is in tourist places).
It is usually known in local circles which
What you need to know before ordering food in a Greek restaurant or tavern
A trip to Greece or any foreign country is an opportunity to get to know the local gastronomy. Greece has a really rich cuisine, and in taverns and restaurants you can try a variety of traditional and modern specialties.
In our opinion, a trip is not complete without trying the local specialties. And the best place to get to know the real Greece, to feel the flavors, atmosphere, culture, customs are
READ MOREWhere to try cakes and ice cream in Thessaloniki - the best pastry shops
Ugh, how do you decide when there are so many fantastic pastry shops!
While walking in Thessaloniki, you will be delighted by the decoration of cakes and pastries in the windows of pastry shops. Every cake is a real art, and the flavors are not far from that.
As big lovers of sweets (unfortunately), we tried almost everything we saw that looked good and everything we got recommendations for from our Thessaloniki
READ MOREWinter time in Greece – where to go?
Little is known that Greece is a fantastic winter destination and has much more to offer than beaches and the sea.
Actually Greece is a mountainous country, it has beautiful mountains and 22 ski centers on them, fantastic mountain villages where tourism is well developed, many mountain lakes and rivers, centuries-old forests. Everything you need for a great wintering.
You can view the list of ski centers in Greece with all the
Small producers of local products in Greece
Dearly beloved, we know that you like to buy and try homemade Greek products. We have made every effort to provide you with contacts from small manufacturers of the most sought-after local products.
The most common products in Greece are honey and olive oil products.
We will be updating the list and adding contacts on regular basis, so check it again before going for shopping.
For each manufacturer, we also provide you their Viber number
TAG for traveling through Greece, Serbia and North Macedonia - where to buy and how much it costs
The quickest option to get to the sea is if you use “toll passes” to pass the toll automatically, known as TAG**.** This will save you a lot of time, especially in the season when there are big lines at toll booths. We will write some of our experiences in this article, so we hope it will be helpful to you as well.
**Certainly, right from the beginning we urge you
READ MORECheap accommodation in Greece
In 2017, Greece had a record attendance of over 30 million tourists.
Greece is one of the most visited countries in Europe.
The largest number of tourists in Greece are Germans, followed by the English, and in recent years the number of tourists from Romania and Bulgaria has doubled.
As the demand for accommodation increases, the prices of accommodation are increasing from year to year.
With the crisis in Greece and high unemployment, an
READ MOREBeaches in Greece for people with disabilities
Many people in wheelchairs find organizing a vacation to be a true challenge because they have difficulty obtaining accurate information about accommodation and beaches adapted for people with disabilities.
The following text, taken from Marko Veličković’s blog Samo kolica i put, describes the organization of vacations from the personal experience of a person with disabilities and illustrates the difficulties that a person in a wheelchair faces when choosing a travel destination.
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