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Theoxenia Ouranopolis

Ouranopolis, Mt. Athos Peninsula, Halkidiki, Macedonia Region, 630 75, Greece

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ESCAPE Confernce

A travel blog entry by kauairent

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... amount of coast line with beautiful beaches, not your typical Euorpean rocky beaches and lastly I hear the islands are very different from one another and worth visiting....

One last thing...I forgot to mention the famous Greek drink of Ouzo...it's a killer when you drink too many...I'll say no more.

We hope to return to another conference in 2013 on the island of Rhodes near Turkey ...thanks for following our blog!
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Ferry, Buses and more buses

A travel blog entry by kauairent

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... of buses! The resort is beautiful but not very Greek looking, very modern. I can see a town not far off so we will walk there today. The area is really cool, mountainous and full of hotels and beaches. This country is a country of beaches. This is like a huge Catskill area for Greece. If you look at a map of Greece we are in the Macedonia region where there are 3 peninsulas, we are on the middle one to the southern tip of it. We are off to find food and Internet access, none in the ...

Watch this on Mt Athos

A travel blog entry by kauairent

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... around it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162- 20056220-10391709.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= 7363712n&tag=contentMain;contentBod y

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id= 7363715n&tag=segementExtraScroller; housing ...

It's A Mans Mans World...... Mount Athos.

A travel blog entry by heatheravan

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... not recognised as such by the UN. What we observed from our 500 metre exclusion zone was the monks don't seem to be living a life of austerity, with modern vehicles and speed boats in the bays. They live in very large regular style houses as well as the larger monasteries. Some 2000 males currently live on the peninsula, including Monks and employees.

According to my guide book, the Virgin Mary it is said, was blown off course by accident ...

Day 69 - Olimpiada to Ouranopoli to Olimpiada

A travel blog entry by fcardoso

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Distance: 37.60 km

Average speed: 20.5 km/h

Moving time: 1h50min

Total ascent height: 674 m

As the days before, today was a rainy day. Because of it we decided to try to hitchhike until Ouranopoli (the city where we can access to moun Athos). Due to the few cars on the road, this was impossible so we took our bikes and made ~18 kms until Stratoni where we took a bus ...

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