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Monday, August 14, 2017

Serifos: Charming, elegant…Greek!

Apart from having a laid back & relaxed holiday, you will enjoy your outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, mountain biking & diving!


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Hot Katerina Stikoudi: Every man’s dream! (Sizzling PHOTOS)

The Greek model that drives men crazy!


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Healthy Banana Breakfast Bars with Cinnamon and Honey Greek Yogurt

This easy and healthy banana breakfast bars recipe with cinnamon and honey Greek yogurt is a hit in my household, full of the protein, fresh fruit, and whole grains you need to start the day! You know how they say that breakfast is the most important meal ...


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Greece: "We export 45 million kilos of peaches to the rest of Europe"

Peaches are one of the most cultivated fruits in Greece and have a notable presence on the European continent. "In our case, we export to different markets with different peculiarities," explains Lagios. In fact, this Greek company ships its peaches to ...


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GREEK Jan-July primary budget surplus EUR 3.053bln vs 2.098bln target

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When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark

It began as a scintillating exploration of Baltimore’s cops and crims. When it became The Jimmy McNulty Show, though, daftness started creeping in Almost a decade after it finished, The Wire still stands as the pinnacle of the boxset era: Baltimore shaken down block by block, institution by institution, in a peerless 60-episode stickup of the American Dream. Among its embarrassment of virtues was its nose for character. Not just the feat of conceiving a carefully individuated gallery of cops and robbers, casting them perfectly and watching each one pick their appointed path through the city’s tatty rowhouses and gleaming bureaus. But also knowing when the hour came to rein them in. From Stringer Bell’s fatal overreaching into legitimate business to Ziggy Sobotka’s faceplant entry into the world of drug-trafficking, it never lost its feel for how every player fitted into the polity, and when their actions would cause them to lose their place. Hamartia turned out to be just as applicable to the Baltimore badlands as ancient Greece. Related: ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire Continue reading...


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Thessaloniki in the spotlight: 100 years after a fire destroyed the city of refugees

The Great Fire destroyed much of a city home to thousands of refugees, but once again Thessaloniki has become a place of multicultural amnesty It was a spark from a homemade stove falling on a pile of straw at a refugees’ hovel that’s said to have instigated a new phase in the history of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. A century ago, on 18 August 1917, the fire grew into an inferno that destroyed 9,500 houses, left 1 sq km of the city in cinders and 70,000 homeless. As the centre of operations for allied forces in the Balkans during the first world war, Thessaloniki had no fire service and its water supply was requisitioned by foreign soldiers – which, along with the Vadaris wind, is why the Great Fire attained historic proportions. Continue reading...


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