Special prices for international flights through Qatar Airways!

The "Navarino Challenge" will take place between the 13th and 15th of October 2017, in Messinia and Costa Navarino, as part of its overseas promotional strategy and is renewing the cooperation with Qatar Airways.

Qatar Airways, the national carrier of the State of Qatar, is proud to be “Going Places Together” with travelers across its more than 150 business and leisure destinations. A multiple award-winning airline, Qatar Airways has been awarded World’s Best Airline, World's Best Business Class, Best Business Class Airline Lounge and Best Airline Staff Service in the Middle East by international air transport rating organisation Skytrax. Qatar Airways proudly supports a range of exciting international and local initiatives dedicated to enriching the global community that it serves. Qatar Airways sponsors world-leading sports events, like “Navarino Challenge” reflecting the values of sports as a means of bringing people together, something at the core of the airline’s own brand message “Going Places Together”.

A short while ago, in New York, the 1st Greek Panorama exhibition took place with great success, aiming to promote Greece to the US market. Thousands of New Yorkers, as well as tourists from around the world, visited the expo at the most central station in Manhattan, the Grand Central terminal.

The “Navarino Challenge” will take place for another year with the support of Costa Navarino and The Westin Resort Costa Navarino as well as the Municipalities of Pylos-Nestor and Trifilia.

Please use the promo code ATHNAVCH to book an exclusive offer for roundtrip tickets to Athens from over 150 places, via the following link: http://www.qatarairways.com/gr/el/cugs/navarinochallenge.page Offer valid from 3 to 15 October 2017 included (Outbound) and (Inbound) to be completed on or before 25 October 2017. This offer refers to roundtrip tickets to Athens from more than 150 destinations, including New York, USA.

More information will be announced in the next few weeks.

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Official Airline Partner: Qatar Airways
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Photo:  A view from the cocktail “A Night to Remember by Qatar Airways” in Navarino Challenge 2016.
Photo credit: Elias Lefas

Renowned Greek poet Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 29 April, 1863. A cosmopolitan by birth, Cavafy travelled for the first time to Greece in the summer of 1901, accompanied by his brother Alexandros. His stay in Athens constitutes the topic of a new book entitled Walking in Athens with Constantine Cavafy.

Wandering through Athens with Cavafy is a fascinating experience. Readers will have the chance to discover that, despite the fact that it’s been over a century ago and with dramatic changes have taken place in the capital, the city centre has preserved the broad outline of its physiognomy. The urban grid, shaped like a large symmetrical triangle and dating from the time of King Otto (mid 19th century), is still the city’s most obvious trait, while the large public buildings that remain attractions adorning the city would have also been seen by Cavafy at the time.

“Cavafy travelled for the first time in Greece in the summer of 1901 during a period of leave from his job. The poet was 38 years old and was accompanied by his brother Alexandros. Travelling to Athens with Cavafy is a fascinating experience.”

To read this article in full, please visit: Greek News Agenda

To purchase ‘Walking in Athens with Constantine Cavafy,’ please visit: ETP Books

The Dalliance House Restaurant in Kifisia is in a neoclassical building of 1890 and was originally used as a bourgeois house. The all-day bar restaurant that is now in operation, has iron constructions and plasterboards largely covering the treasure of memories which were trapped underneath and that had to be totally dismantled. Today, three generations later, The Dalliance House in Kifissia, houses the space created by Lefteris Bakopoulos and his colleagues, so we can enjoy it by morning, noon, or evening.

In the main entrance, guests have a general view of the site as it evolves 180 degrees, revealing from left to right, the bar, the corridor leading to the second floor of the building and the petrol blue room. On the left side of the main entrance lies the space of the bar. The playful lights of the bar have lots of personality!

The elements that characterize The Dalliance House are intimate, comfort, and a tendency to create a space where privacy and sociability are combined. It plays on the dichotomy that takes place between the space and its world.

Address: Kiriazi 19, Kifisia
Telephone: 210 62 30 775

 

To read this article in full, please visit: Living Postcards

 

Photo Credit: The Dalliance House Facebook

Whether you’re traveling through Greece or have recently moved, it’s important to know a few Greek phrases, especially when it comes to saying ‘Hello’ or ‘thank you!’ Why Athens has put a list together of useful phrases for tourists (or expats) to use while you’re in Greece, along with spelling and pronunciation!

 

The Greek language is not an easy one to learn or pronounce. We’ve put together a quick guide with audio clips to help you along. Learning to say a few words like ‘hello’, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ is always a nice gesture when travelling anywhere in the world and the Greeks do appreciate the effort, however good or bad the attempt.

You would say ‘kalimera’ (good morning) up until 12:00pm, from here onwards ‘yia sas’ (hello) will be the standard greeting. You will hear ‘kalispera’ (good afternoon/evening) from late afternoon right through to the end of the day. If you are leaving a restaurant or passing by the hotel reception desk to walk back to your room, you would say ‘kalinihta’ (good night).

To read this article in full, and for spelling and pronunciation of popular Greek phrases, please visit: Why Athens

Oiio Studio, founded by Ioannis Oikonomou, is a Greek architecture firm based in both New York and Athens. It has sparked global interest with their state-of-the-art design of the Big Bend, the world’s first U-shaped skyscraper.

 

If and when it will be built, it will span over 4,000 feet long which is almost twice as long as Burj Khalifa, standing at 2,722 feet tall.The Big Bend could be the world’s longest continual building and would forever change the architectural landscape of New York.

Oiio Studio also noted the challenges with the proposed project, one of the biggest being the curvature of the building and how an elevator would function to allow people transportation to the top floors.

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

 

Photo Credit: Oiio Studio

Finding a greenspace in Athens is harder than it looks, but thankfully, Culinary Backstreets searched for us and found a few delightful garden cafes, perfect for a coffee, tea, or snack.

Just behind Parliament lies the Ethnikos Kipos, or National Gardens, the indisputable green heart of the city. The gardens’ café sits at the Irodou Attikou entrance, with retro green tables arrayed symmetrically in the relaxing shade of the alleyway.

The Black Duck Garden, located on Klauthmonos square between Omonia and Syntagma, is housed in one of the city’s oldest surviving neoclassical buildings. Constructed in 1833, it was the temporary palace of King Otto and Queen Amalia. It’s an ideal getaway for a quiet coffee or a glass of wine paired with a Greek cheese platter.

Hidden behind high walls, away from the noise of the busy touristy area of Anafiotika in Plaka, the nonprofit Alumni Association of the School of Fine Arts (Enosi Ptichiouchon Scholi Kalon Technon), with its old marble statues and lovely details, has the artiest green courtyard in the city. The old-fashioned coffee-shop tables and the built-in benches under the tall, leafy trees contribute to a warm, convivial atmosphere.

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

As of May 2017, residents and visitors of Athens will find two more pedestrianized streets in the city center. Cars will no longer be able to turn left from Voreos Street to Karoris and Agathonos streets. It is reminded that vehicles are allowed to enter Athinas Street only from the streets of Mitropoleos, Karagiorgis and Sofokleous.

The streets Agathonos and Karoris (up to Voreou Street) have been pedestrianized as part of the municipality’s program to restore the ‘commercial triangle of Athens.’ The sides of the this triangle are the three main squares of the city: Omonia, Syntagma and Monastiraki.

To read this article in full, please visit: Greek Travel Pages

In this edition, a BBC article features Athens and the arts, a Greek cellist whose goal is to make you 'Smile' with his new music video, and one man's journey through Athens to experience first-hand the revival of the arts scene.

 

Discover 10 things to do on a Sunday in Athens, restaurants that are ideal for perfect nights out with the kids, and outdoor cinemas in the city that offer movie-goers the chance to sit back, relax and enjoy a show under the stars.