PC550 Greece Index Page 2010 27/9/09

Before this see
- the - UK 2009 Postcards 5/3/10

Greece 2010 Postcards

- 551 Arrive ... Thessaloniki, Athens : Wow it's expensive 24/3/10
- 552 Paros 1 .. Walks etc. 29/3/10 it's off season so things closed
- 553 Paros 2 .. Walks, getting bored. 4/4/2010 it's off season so no sense of community
- 554 Santorini 1 .. views, but much more touristy 11/4/2010 - Not as good as people imagine, but the dream of cool becomes a self fulfilling prophesy
- 555 Crete 1 Heraklio, Rythimno, Plakias 17/4/2010
- 556 Crete 2 Hania and Kisamos 4/5/2010
- 557 Peloponese 1, Gythio, Mani Pennisula, Sparti, Mystras, Messina (Kalamata) 10/5/10
- 558 Peloponese 2 24/5/10
- 559 Corfu 1 28/5/10

See the Opinion blogs
- Impractical Greece - I hate white buildings and Black clothes
- I don't Get this tourist business and off season idea Why doesn't Greek tourism work al the year like Spain ?
- Crisis - why are the Greeks all sitting in expensive cafes ?
- PC490 Greece Plays ... Germany Pays

HOT LINKS
Some useful stuff

Radio
- station ET5 for some news
- 800-AM on the radio dial (CNN) and 1400-AM (BBC).
- near CRETE she can tune in AFRS Souda Bay...it is somewhere between 1200 - 1500 on the AM dial.
- BBC on 12095MHz and 15170MHz, daily
- Voice of America on 792KHz (Medium Wave), 12205MHz (mornings) and 15245MHz.
- Radio Canada International on 17820MHz, 15325MHz or 11945MHz.
- Radio Australia on 21745MHz, 11695MHz, 15240MHz, 11660MHz or 11720MHz.
- Radio Vlanders International in Flemish on 9905MHz and 13685MHz or 5910MHz.

Rationalist Connections
- Rationalist, freethinkers, skeptics ..humanist, secularist,

- greece skeptic - none
brights nothing found
rationalist nothing found
- Humanist - Greek Humanists on facebook - bits
science society - not much

Couch Surfing Forums
- Cyclades
- Greece
- Athens
- Crete

Greek you already know

LINKS
- Best List Of campsites
- GOOD GREEK travel site by expat fan
- gnto.gr - not many events
- culture.gr - not many events
- British Council - online news some events
- greek jobs... nothing 3 pages all in
- search OAED English no good
- 900 greek jobs all in greekr -
- Science Film Festival - Athens in September
- livingingreece.gr - comprehensive magazine/encyclopedia like website for foreigners living in Greece
- whatsonwhen.com - not bad small events list
- British Council - not much
- kathimerini greek newspaper -
- Their what's on in anthens today - lists some lectures etc
- British Council - online news some events
- Greek Bus Company
- Greek Train Company
- Topping up Cosmote cellphone
PAROS
- parosweb - looks good library website etc jobs messageboard etc
- http://community.parosweb.com/ lists events on left
- http://www.paroslife.com/ Magazine
- Community Events Magazine
- Paros walks
young-inn.com - 8euro hotel paros north coast

CORFU
http://www.kerkyra.net/index.asp flogs hotels
http://www.kerkyra.gr better not great
http://www.corfuvisit.net best for corfu

- magazine events are all 2008-9 - Their facebook - is still updated

OTHER NEWS
http://www.greeceindex.com/various/greek-newspapers-magazines.htm
http://www.heteron.gr/5566/ not much


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- I see RyanAir gave away loads of free flights and they paid the taxes in an offer which was only for a few hours last Friday
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