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Background: Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between royalist supporters of the king and communist rebels. Following the latter's defeat in 1949, Greece was able to join NATO in 1952. A military dictatorship, which in 1967 suspended many political liberties and forced the king to flee the country, lasted seven years. The 1974 democratic elections and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy. Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992); it became the 12th member of the euro zone in 2001.

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By yogurt823
July 18th 2008

Aneliess and Amy’s 2 week vacation through Italy and Greece.

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Aneliess and Amy’s 2 week vacation through Italy and Greece. First stop was Pisa where, after we took a taxi ride that cost way too much, we were eaten by bugs and saw all the sites in about an hour. We saw the oldest botanical gardens in Europe (not the biggest or most beautiful) and drank cappuccino for 1euro. Next was a stop on the 4th of July in Firenze or Florence, Italy. Our tour guide didn’t show up, but we managed to find our way around the town without him. Big churches, old bridges, good food in cute plazas and [View Full Entry]

By Jay Month
July 16th 2008

Honeymoon at Astarte suites in Santorini island

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Santorini, Thira, Stroggili, or Santa Irini, are many different names for the same beautiful island I visited with my wife for our honeymoon. After reading hundrends of reviews regarding Santorini island I concluded that this was the right choice for our Honeymoon. The next step as you can understand was to book the flight tickets and one of the nicest hotel possible. The first part was easy, since two greek airline companies had about twice everyday direct flights from Athens to Santorini airport. But, the second part.. yes, how to choose the right hotel among hundrends one? Therefore, I star [View Full Entry]

By Renan
July 16th 2008

Greece: Athens and Santorini

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The Parthenon

We arrived at the very modern (thanks to the 2004 olympics) Athens international airport around lunchtime, and waited an hour fr the train to athens. We went out immediately to the centre of the tourist area (Monostaraki) looking for cheap food, and didn't find it. We kept looking, and eventually gave up and had expensive food. We had greek salad, potato salad and bread from a little cafe on Monostaraki. It was very good, and set off an unprecedented run of greek salads (we had one every night that we were in Greece). After our meal, we headed to the ruins [View Full Entry]

By alyteich
July 12th 2008

Santorini, Properly...

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Hi Everyone! I am not going to apologize again for how long it's taken me to get another blog up as I have a)just accepted the fact that I am not going to be able to update this blog as much as I would like (I hope you can accept that, too) and b)I quite happy with the fact that I am out experiencing my trip instead of spend hours behind a computer telling you about it. That's not to say I don't love sharing my adventures with everyone, but I have found myself stressing over not writing as much lately [View Full Entry]

By alyteich
July 11th 2008

Happy Birthday, Dave!

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I have 7 minutes before I am kicked off of this computer, so I am going to make this short. This is no secret, but Santorini is just one of the most beautiful places on earth. It's like Big Sur attempted poorly at an immitation of this. Dave and I managed to find the biggest steal on the island. We stubled across a modest, yet beautiful place tucked right into the cliffs of the Caldera. I will give more detail on the place later as anyone coming here on a bidget needs to stay at this place! Today is Dave's birthday. [View Full Entry]

By mcfet
July 8th 2008

athens to santorini

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Athens

We are now in Santorini. The flight from Australia went quite smoothly except for an extra delay by Qantas in Singapore making it a 5 hour stop. At least this allowed for a nap of about 1 hour on the floor. We spent our first night in Rome. It was hot and we didn’t have much energy but enjoyed a short walk around the city backstreets and a meal out at night. We were pleased to get our Skype set up working and spoke to the girls at home via a video link. Quite fun really and next to no charge [View Full Entry]

By Mark42
July 3rd 2008

Aegean Islands

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Sunset on the Approach to Mykonos

Hello All, Well, Andrea and I have spent the last two weeks island hopping here in the Aegean Sea. We haven't done a great deal of sightseeing, mostly just relaxing and hanging out. Below is a short description of each island we've been to with some pictures. We're heading to Crete later this afternoon and after we spend a week there we're flying to Egypt! Mykonos We spent about four days here and had a good time. We stayed at a campsite in a bungalow with a beautiful view of the sea right out our door. The accommodations were primitive, but [View Full Entry]

View of the sea from our bunglow in Mykonos

Drea and I with our Kiwi friends DJ and Amber, Mykonos

By atlasandi
July 2nd 2008

Still in Greece

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Meteora

Well, it's seems forever since my last blog. Last I wrote we were in Meteora which was wonderful. From Meteora we headed back to Athens to finally mail our third bag to the states. Four times we lugged that damn thing to different post offices - Mark was very happy to see it go ;-) Luckily I had purchased a $50.00 (yes...$50.00!!!!) Lonely Planet from a bookstore that was kind enough to give me two big book boxes as the post office had no boxes for mailings. We packed up our tent, sleeping bags and two jackets plus misc. stuff and [View Full Entry]

By Spartan
June 23rd 2008

Santorini Island, Greece

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Off the beaten path
Here is a random beach we found while driving the 4 wheeler . . . we had to climb and hike to get here but the water felt good when we got there.

After a few days on the island we think we may have mastered the art of relaxation! This is such a unique place we are absolutely loving it here!! We arrived Sunday early morning after a 26 minute puddle jumper flight over here from Athens. Yesterday we hit up the beach and just swam and layed in beach chairs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. As if laying on a beach isn't relaxing enough, here in Santorini they have BEDS and COUCHES with huge fluffy pillows right on the beach! It's a dream come true!! Our hotel is right on the Sea and [View Full Entry]

By Mmirag
June 23rd 2008

Santorini

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Got a dune buggy today with Mom and drove all over the island. Went to Perissa Beach and the Red Beach then back towards the hotel to Kamari Beach. Just driving around mostly then went up to the mountain town of Pyrgos and checked out the crazy maze of streets and got lunch. Split a pizza and each had a drink. Can't believe I have never been up there. Maybe my favorite place on the island. Took a little nap this afternoon and then the whole crew drove to the other end of the island to Oia and watched the sunset [View Full Entry]

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