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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 Odysseus
July 13th 2008

The Greek Isles

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Mykonos

Dira Caves

After working Most of the coast south coast we decided we had better speed up and visit the islands. So planning a route with a few stops on the east coast of the Peleponnese with the finally destination being the Capital; Athens. I won’t go deep into details about the other attractions of this journey so as not to bore. So just one I will mention, Dira Caves. These were amazing, I don't think there would be many to rival these, most of it is viewed by boat. I'll just let you check out some pics so you can make up [View Full Entry]

By alyteich
July 12th 2008

Santorini, Properly...

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini

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!

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini

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

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini

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 alyteich
July 8th 2008

When in Rome? When in Greece...

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Paros

Hi Guys! Before I tell you about Greece (thus far) I need to make a few comments, or apologies, about my blog posts. Please try your best to overlook spelling and grammer errors. I usually consider myself a fairly decent writer, however I can't spell (I'm a spellcheck generation baby) and I am usually writing these very late at night or in quite a hurry and trying to squeeze as much information in as I can in the few minutes I have and don't have much time for proof reading. So please forgive me! There is also no way I can [View Full Entry]

By ridders
July 8th 2008

Matala and now Paros..........

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Paros

Hey everyone. I hope your all good. Things are all good with us. We left Matala 7 days ago now. It was a tiny village on the south coast of Crete. Really nice. Not too much to do so it was basically a lot of beach time. The sea there is crystal clear and its the best snorkelling Ive done yet. Saw so many different fish and all different colours. I had to buy a underwater camera to get pics . The bus in Matala went to 3 different places around there so we "did" all them. They were all small [View Full Entry]

By cards
July 7th 2008

rhodes

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Rhodes

shore line
west coast

Hi, One of the perks in this job is during our bye weeks we often take a three or four day trip to someplace in Europe that we haven’t been to before. The Aegean Air flight into Athens was a considerable improvement over my first venture to Greece. In 1964 I took a boat from Brindisi, Italy through the Adriatic to Patras and then a bus over a treacherous tiny two-lane highway with sheer cliffs an inch or so from the wheels of our over loaded and careening vehicle. One missed turn and we would plunge five hundred or so feet [View Full Entry]

By Mark42
July 3rd 2008

Aegean Islands

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini

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

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Santorini

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 danandkels
July 2nd 2008

We Are CANADIAN!!!

Europe » Greece » South Aegean » Rhodes

Happy Canada Day!

Hello to all the Canucks back at home and abroad! It sounds like Vancouver Island had a fantastic long weekend, with great weather to match a great celebration…not a bad way to kick off the summer! Well, even though we’ve been enjoying summer weather for the last 6 months, we still showed our “true north strong and free” pride yesterday and educated the Greeks in Canadiana. No we did not have a war of independence with the British or the French; No we are not American; No we do not all speak French; No we do not sound like Australians; and [View Full Entry]

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