Five Star Greece I am not sure that I can make this relevant to Greek villa rentals, but it is all pretty quiet there for now – It is raining, and Ireland and North Korea are rather selfishly hogging the limelight. So, a London blog – The Victoria and Albert museum is hosting a strange…
Last weekend saw Greek local elections. Let no-one say that Greeks lack a sense of reality. Two days after becoming Mayor of a small, shy, remote island that shall remain nameless in case I ever want to go there again, Five Star Greece obtained copies of the Mayoral programme of publically funded projects for 2011: A shiny…
Yes, this is the time of year when olives are harvested – old ladies dressed in black sit like crows in the olive trees, raking the ripe olives off laden boughs with wooden combs onto nets spread below. Fires burn with fragrant olive wood logs, smoke curling up into the autumn air and warming unheated…
October 31st was the 28th anniversary of the Marathon to Athens race - As you all know of course, the original Marathon was the run by Pheidippides (530 BC–490 BC) of 240 km in two days to get reinforcements for the Greek troops. He then ran the 40 km (25 miles) from the battlefield near Marathon back to Athens to…