The international golf tournament will return for the second year on 21-24 February 2018 with 50,000EUR prize fund

Monday, 7 August 2017 – Costa Navarino, the award-winning golf destination in Greece will host the second Messinia ProAm on 21-24 February 2018.

The event follows the inaugural ProAm in February 2017, which saw participants from 14 countries.

2018’s tournament is expected to attract 50 teams of golf professionals and aficionados from all over the world. The total prize fund on offer to the winning team will be 50,000EUR, making it the second highest to be offered in a European tournament.

The destination’s multi-awarded signature golf courses ‘The Dunes Course’ and the ‘The Bay Course’ will offer an unparalleled golf experience with views of the seaside Messinian landscape. Alongside a thrilling golf spectacle, the event will also provide a rich programme of events and entertainment for attendees, including thematic gastronomy nights.

The ProAm is sanctioned by the PGAs of Europe and is held under the auspices of the PGAs of Greece, the Hellenic Golf Federation and the Hellenic Olympic Academy. Professionals and amateurs alike will join together to compete at Costa Navarino, selected by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) as ‘European Golf Resort of the Year 2017’.

Aegean Airlines, a member of Star Alliance, is the official airline partner of the event. The company was awarded for the seventh consecutive year and for the eighth time in nine years, as "Best Regional Airline in Europe" at the Skytrax World Airline Awards.

Kyvernitis Travel is the official travel partner of the second Messinia Pro-Am. With over 40 years of experience in the travel industry, the agency will coordinate and ensure a smooth registration process.

Registration is now open via the website: messiniaproam.costanavarino.com.

Those registered by 30 September will receive a 10% ‘early bird’ discount.

Special accommodation packages are available at The Westin Resort Costa Navarino.

Click to view the Messinia Pro-Am Video HERE!

Organizer: Costa Navarino

Official Airline Partner: Aegean Airlines

Official Travel Partner: Kyvernitis Travel Website: messiniaproam.costanavarino.com

Hashtag: #messiniaproam

Autumn is right around the corner and enjoying a hot cup of coffee is even more enjoyable with a crisp in the air. Culinary Backstreets gives us a tour of the new wave cafes in downtown Athens with trendy aesthetics and hip baristas!

Despite (or perhaps because of) Greece’s ongoing economic crisis, the number of quality coffee shops in Athens has mushroomed in recent years, and a rising cadre of professional baristas – a trendy title to hold nowadays – is taking pleasure in sharing their knowledge of coffee making and drinking.

Regardless of what kind of coffee you like to drink, make sure to head first to Kaya, without a doubt the best espresso bar in the city. Located in Stoa Bolani, an arcade close to Syntagma Square that hides some of central Athens’ best secret spots, this tiny coffee workshop is always teeming with locals.

To Dentro tou Cafe (The Coffee Tree) in Exarchia doubles as a cozy coffee shop and a retailer of freshly roasted and freshly ground coffee sourced from all over the world.

To read this article in full, please visit: Culinary Backstreets

Just a couple of weeks ago in mid-August 2017, Greece got to witness the annual Perseid meteor shower lighting of the starry skies. The video below from The Guardian shows the shower near the archaeological site of Mesimvria outside Alexandroupoli in northern Greece.

“As the meteors burn up, they can appear as green, white or orange streaks across the sky.”



To view more in pictures, please visit: The Guardian

Going on a holiday with your kids can take on a new meaning when they are (almost) grown up. Martin from The Guardian, having first visited Greece with his family 10 years ago, goes back to the beautiful country and stays in Paxos with his kids who are soon to be on their own in the world. What’s a family vacation like in Greece with your 3 (almost) grown kids?

Greece holds a special place in the list of our “favourite family holidays”. More than 10 years ago we went there on our first “proper” trip. We rented a house in Lefkada with a cool pool and drove around in a knackered old car. The kids were 12, 10 and five. Every night we dined in a different taverna. With burnt shoulders and washed hair, we’d sit at pretty tables, ordering grown-up food and then, when the children didn’t like it, feed it to the stray cats. And here we were again – a decade later, with the kids on the cusp of adulthood and almost off our hands.

To say the pace is unhurried would be an exaggeration – even a gang of lethargic sloths would get fidgety here. But you soon adapt to the relaxed starts, long lunches and afternoon snoozes. What’s the rush, anyway? Other than the dazzling blue sea, the first thing that strikes you about the island are the olive trees. They are everywhere.

To read this article in full, please visit: The Guardian

Continuously voted as one of the best museum’s in the world, the Acropolis Museum in Athens is dedicated to showcasing the Parthenon and its surrounding temples. Why Athens takes us on a journey through the museum, sharing insights to the galleries and pictures to go along with it.

 

Located in the central neighbourhood of Makrigianni, the museum is framed by olive trees and propped up by concrete pillars, revealing the site’s archaeological excavation below. The remnants are of an ancient neighbourhood that once thrived, complete with a drainage system, bathhouses and mosaics.

Having visited the museum on numerous occasions, we suggest starting your journey from the top floor of the ‘Parthenon Gallery’ and making your way down from here. From this third floor, you will not only be mesmerised by the magical views, but will also get to appreciate the amount of thought the architects have placed into the museum’s design.

To read this article in full, please visit: Why Athens

Photo Credit: Why Athens

It tastes so good. You know it does. The Greek summer – wherever you’re living it – leaves you wanting more and more.

Those blue skies. That amazing sea. That soft sand.

So why stop? After all, the Greek summer doesn’t. September, October … perfect for a second serving.

Post a photo of your Greek summer experience and tag a friend back home and the two of you will automatically enter the draw to win a pair of Aegean Airlines tickets to Greece!

For more information, please visit: Discover Greece

The 17th century Ottoman monument, one of the most important historic buildings in Athens’ historic center, will operate as an exhibition venue for photography or antiquities, the head of the Athens Ephorate of Antiquities told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

The monument is located on the northern side of the ancient Roman Agora in Athens, near the Tower of the Winds and is a listed building. It was built on the ruins of a Christian basilica from the middle Byzantine period (8th-9th centuries), which was converted into a mosque. Initially it was believed its construction was completed to coincide with the visit to the city of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1458. However more recent studies, combined with excavation data, led to its redating and its integration in the second half of the 17th century, probably between 1668-1670.

It was built according to the architectural style of “quatrefoil” or “clover-leaf-cross-in-square”, as its broad central dome is supported by four quadrangles in cruciform arrangement.

To read this article in full, please visit: Greek Reporter

Photo Credit: Greek Reporter

A way of communicating that only 6 people know how to understand, BBC Travel goes behind the scenes of Greece’s disappearring whistle language. The whistle language, also known as Sfyria and only existing in a tiny village in Evia, Greece called Antia, is one of the rarest and most endangered languages in the world.

A BBC journalist meets a 45-year-old farmer named Yiannis Apostolou and delves deep into the world of the whistles. Such precise, musical notes, have been passed down from generation to generation, but when a village population disappears, so does its language.

To read the full article and watch a video of the whistle language, please visit: BBC Travel

“Athens isn’t a place to just pass through on your way to the islands,” explains CNN Travel. The popular news network embarks on a cultural and gastronomical discovery to the vibrant city of Athens and goes on to describe the Greek capital as having a “long, rich history, built on traditions of innovation, creativity and culinary ingenuity.”

With lots of old and new restaurants, sights to see, souvenirs to find, and places to stay, CNN takes us to all the spots one shouldn’t miss whilst in Athens!

To read this full article, please visit: CNN

This August 2017, Greece witnessed a spectacular full moon with a partial lunar eclipse! The video below shows the moon rise over Cape Sounion in Athens where you can see the lunar eclipse and crowds enjoying the sight!