A short Rhodes guide (I)
Rhodes (also Rodos or Rhodos – Ρόδος in Greek – more about the name) is the largest island of the Dodecanese and the fourth largest in Greece. Let’s…
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Traveling with ferry to Rhodes
The ferries are the ideal way to get from Athens to any island – Rhodes included – if you are on a low budget or with your own…
Kassos
Kassos (Kàssos, Κάσος) is a small rocky island, steeply raising from the Karpathian sea, at the southernmost part of the Dodecanese islands with a population of 1.088 inhabitants.…
Monastery of Taxiarchis Michail Panormitis
No trip to Symi would be complete without a visit to its wonderful monastery of Taxiarchis Michail Panormitis. The monastery is situated on the sea front of the…
Bad weather in Rhodes
Severe weather conditions have forced the authorities to shut down ferry services between the mainland and the islands. Winds in the country’s seas have reached speeds of up…
Hotel & Ferry by Blue Star Ferries
During Philoxenia 2008, an the International Tourism Exhibition hosted by HELEXPO, Blue Star Ferries, a company serving with daily connections Rhodes and the major islands of the Dodecanese…
Entries to the island
You arrive to Rhodes from Athens after about 55 minutes of flight or after approximately 16 hours from Piraeus, if you choose to travel by ferry boat. The…
Karpathos: An island off the beaten track
Their eyebrows are black and thick and their facial expressions austere and proud. The women from the small village of Olympos, high in the north of the Greek island of Karpathos, are different from the women on the rest of the island. This part of Karpathos has the harshest landscape on the 300 square kilometre island thanks to its craggy coastline and the waves that crash upon the shore. But its olive groves and hidden bays also make it the most beautiful place on Karpathos. Olympos is difficult to reach.
Leipsoi finally gets Piraeus ferry
Residents of Leipsoi in the Dodecanese yesterday welcomed the first ferry from Piraeus to dock at the tiny island in the last three years. Following protests by locals…
Tourists rediscover their sea wings
Romantic nostalgia for the golden age of travel has combined with the commercialism of 21st-century tourism to bring seaplanes to the Mediterranean for the first time in 60…