Athens’ coolest ice cream bars for hot summer nights
Looking for some really good ice-cream, Italian-styled gelato, sorbet or soft serve? Many tempting ice-cream parlours are determined to keep you ...
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A peek into Greece through travel books
Escape into books that give flight to your imaginations, and the miles t...
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Humans of Athens: Portraits of a City
The tapestry of any city is woven stitch by stitch by the people who c...
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Greek spring and flower-carpeted hillsides
One of the upsides post-lockdown was that it compelled car-obsessed Athenians to appreciate nature in the brief window allotted for daily constitutionals. Nike Morgan is happiest when walking on the hillsides, photographing the wild flowers of Greece. Here, she charts some of her most colourful discoveries - such as the fatal pink colchic...
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Come Take a Breath in Kaisariani
Leave the fast pace of city life, and let yourself take in the beauty of Mount Hymettus and the Kaisariani Monastery. The mountain's beautiful views and crisp air, and the monastery's amazing frescoes and historical significance are just what you need to feel calm and renewed, recommends E. Vaughn McPartland Departing Athe...
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A Trip to Ben Olive Mill: The Secret Behind the Acclaimed Kalamata Olive Oil
The first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Greece is the Parthenon. For Kalamata, a town in western Greece, its claim to fame is its world-famous olive oil. As Leah Beller discovered on a trip to the family-owned Ben Olive Mill, the purest olive oil is made via hand processing. We got off the tour bus on a sunny but...
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Rhodes & Symi: In the calm of the off-season, the islands maintain their charm
Charming and calm, Elizabeth Murray explores how the famous island and its neighbor can be the perfect relaxing getaway in the off-season. It was a mild Thursday night when I touched down in Rhodes. It was quite the turnaround; in the span of an hour, I had gone from the bustle of Athens to the peace and calm of the Dodecanese I...
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Skyros, the Aegean Island That Chooses You
Everything begins to seem slightly random on Skyros. Even its unusual beauty or the passionate frenzy of a pagan carnival ritual. Daphne Panopoulos on why Skyros might not be for all travelers. The score of Richard Straus’ Zarathustra grows progressively louder as if it were reverberating somewhere from the heavens when the fe...
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On a Wine and a Prayer: Notes from the monastic cellars of Mt. Athos
Athens Insider’s wine expert Eleni Kefalopoulou goes where no woman has been before and culls secrets from the esoteric monastic cellars of the Holy Mountain. It took several years of research and no doubt endless glasses of wine to come up with this remarkably documented book on the history and millennia-old traditions of wine making on ...
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Dwelling among the Gods
Follow Justin Brendel as he embarks on an uplifting alpine adventure of Olympic proportions, complete with shooting stars, donkey “mines”, and powerful new friendships. “And don’t touch the small orange and black animal. He is poisonous.” I never saw this notorious salamander during our stunning four-hour hike up Mt. Olympu...
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Playing the Goat
Danylo Hawaleshka steps back in time with the cacophonous, kid-clad dancers of Skyros. We’re lost. And we know we’re lost because it’s dark out and we’ve just driven onto the military base on the Aegean island of Skyros. We make a quick U-turn, followed by a phone call to our genial host-to-be - a bon vivant by the name of Dim...
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Why do Greeks fly kites on Clean Monday?
Every year on Clean Monday, Greeks young and old can be seen in any available patch of green indulging in the traditional beginning-of-Lent activities of kite-flying and picnicking. Setting a kite in the air – and then releasing it – is said to symbolise the freeing of the body from sin, or the passing of the human soul to Heaven and God. [galle...
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