Home Slider
Culture | Mar 2020
Describing it as her most personal collection to date, Greek designer Mary Katrantzou’s Spring-Summer 2020 collection feted her fashion brand’s 10th anniversary, and raised awareness for children with cancer, in a setting truly fit for the Gods – the 2,500 year-old Temple of Poseidon suspended atop a 200-foot cliff overlooking the Aegean....
Read more
Insider Stories | Mar 2020
Stuck at home? And so are the kids. Its like early retirement. Fast forward all those projects you’d been putting on hold for the ‘day you stop working.’ And get your children to join in the action too.
Do a Mary Kondo clean-up of your closets.
Does it spark joy? Those four magic words should guide you into de-cluttering your c...
Read more
City Life | Mar 2020
No social kissing, handshakes or getting physical. Eskimo nose-rubs are out, so are full-on smooches on a blind date. Since the coronavirus dictates how we move, touch, interact and express ourselves, here’s Insider’s go-to guide to the near zero-contact greeting!
Elbow rubs
You’ve been rubbing shoulders with the desirables. T...
Read more
City Life | Mar 2020
Who cares about stock market plunges and pandemics when you can transport yourself to drug dramas, domestic quibbles and succession battles elsewhere in a land far, far away from cantankerous children and hypochondriac colleagues? Go on a cheap date with Netflix - all you need is a comfy blanket. Even if less screen-time definitely feat...
Read more
Insider Stories | Mar 2020
Want to drink like a local when in Greece? How about trying one of the many indigenous born-and-brewed beers? From Athens to Peloponnese, Crete or Santorini, Greece prides itself in a whole range of lagers, ales and beers bursting with frothy flavours. Athens Insider plays beertender and rounds up a few of the coolest beers.
...
Read more
Food & Drink | Mar 2020
We know Greeks were one of the first cultures to produce wine, but just how early did beer come on the scene. In her series on Food and Drink in Greek Archeology, Holley Martlew investigates.
This has been one of the riddles of early Greek civilization -- until recently when state of the art scientific analyses were applied to...
Read more
City Life | Mar 2020
Take advantage of spring’s perfect conditions to start down a rejuvenating new wellness path. To get the (fitness) ball rolling, we propose some of Athens’ most inspiring open-air options for working up a sweat … No excuses!
YOGA AT THE SNFCC PARK
Yoga helps coordinate physical movement and mental processes through gentle practice...
Read more
City Life | Mar 2020
Athens may seem like a concrete jungle sometimes. But it's a city framed by hills and mountains. All of them harboring magnificent fauna and flora (there are 140 recorded species of wildflower alone) - plus the odd archeological marvel! There’s simply no better time of year to hit the trail and explore the capital’s rich natural wonders (...
Read more
City Life | Mar 2020
Insider takes a tour of some of the city’s finest ‘lungs’ that provide balm to the eye and soul, as well as a great year-round stage for jogging, biking and lazy weekend picnics.
The Stavros Niarchos Park
Ath...
Read more
Food & Drink | Feb 2020
Insider shares five top tables where you can enjoy sumptuous seafood feasts with a clean conscience.
Varoulko
After thirty years in the business, one would have expected Chef Lefteris Lazarou to hang his apron and let his reputation do the talking. Lazarou continues to surprise by producing a succession of visually st...
Read more
Travel | Feb 2020
Any mention of Greece mostly evokes images of the majestic Acropolis, the white villages of the Cyclades bordering a deep blue sea or simply sandy shores lapped by turquoise waters. Few people see Greece as an extreme sports destination, but we hope to change this with this article.
Rock climbing
Now, we can all agree that when it comes to rock c...
Read more
Culture | Feb 2020
As part of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, the National Archaeological Museum in Athens has curated a special exhibition juxtaposing works of arts by foreign and local artists, from the past and the present.
Inaugurated on 11 February, the exhibit titled ‘For these we fought: Antiqu...
Read more