Stella Hotel Kriopigi
Kriopigi, Kassandra, Halkidiki, Macedonia Region, 63077, Greece
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ESCAPE Confernce
This last week in Greece we have spent at the ESCAPE Conference in Porto Carras Resort. It is located in the Macedonia Region where there are 3 peninsulas. It is a popular destination for Greeks vacationing. The G8 Summit and the European Summit were held at this resort a few years ago, very nice resort!
I mentioned that I was to go on a tour to the Mt Athos (around it, not to it!) but we quite literally missed the boat and didn't ...
Ferry, Buses and more buses
Saturday May 28th …today we are traveling from Skiathos to Thessaloniki….the ferry to Volos left Skiathos at 2:15 pm, so we had to catch a ride from the hotel down to the bus stop , then caught a bus to the port to catch the ferry. The ferry ride took 2.5 hours and was really nice…once we got to Volas we had to find the bus station, we asked about 5 different people and got 5 different directions. Finally we came across 2 English girls who were coming from the ...
Watch this on Mt Athos
I am going to do a boat tour around Mt Athos on Tuesday while Dave is at his conference. I spoke with a few people at the opening reception about the experience. They allow no women at the Mt and men must have special permission to visit. So I decided to find out more ...
The Wedding
... of the action. A couple of drinks in a local bar afterwards and then onwards to the reception.
One of Evelina's greek friends drove Anna, Mandy and myself. We embarrassed ourselves by fastening our seatbelts in the back without even being asked. Such well-behaved british citizens we've become. Greek seatbelts are like their speed limits, smoking laws and any other law for ...
London to Chalkidiki
... with our little Hyundai rental.
Driving in Greece is quite an experience after living in conservative London for so long. The people on motorbikes generally don't bother with helmets.... and red lights too. It's cheap to rent them here - 15 euros a day. A quick drive to Neos Marmaras (the second finger of Chalkidiki) and we came upon beautiful bays with turqoise water. Every view in this area is postcard ...


