Greece Travel News

A year ago, Greece seemed on the verge of leaving the euro zone. Depositors were draining their savings from Greek banks and a radical left coalition that advocated a halt on debt repayments - default, in other words - seemed sure to win the election.

Sending police musicians to Australia cost taxpayers more than 31,000, and a single flight from Rhodes in Greece cost almost 2000.

China and Greece inked a basket of deals and agreements in Beijing on Thursday, showing China's support for the recovery of the Greek economy.

Our European cousins are just now figuring out that ditching their marks, francs, liras and drachmas to join the eurozone may not have been such a hot idea after all.

The annual meeting of the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises takes place at 6.30 p.m. at the Athens Concert Hall.

With the slogan "Explore Greece on Two Wheels", Moto-Voyager call foreigners to visit Greece and enjoy its unique beauty in the most direct way - by DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE.

As Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras prepares to meet with his eurozone counterparts again in Brussels on Monday for the anticipated approval of further rescue funding, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is busy preparing for a much-awaited visit to China where he hopes to prospect for investments and promote Greece as a A'bridgeA' to Western Europe ... (more)

Oh yeah, the above ad showing crying children with the lines: "Some children will have to go to Crete / Mallorca / Italy this summer" offends the Greeks.

Going into the most pictresque district of Athens, Plaka, behind the ruins of Hadrian's Library, lies a church dedicated to the Taxiarchs and to Panagia Grigoroussa .

In 2001, she was listening to the radio while washing dishes when she first heard the soulful and gritty sound of rebetiko , a Greek music genre.

A tourist holds a parasol to avoid the sun as she stands in front of the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis hill in Athens, on Monday July 9, 2012.

Greece is emerging as a great bargain for tourists this year as hotel prices here are currently at their lowest point in the last few years, according to international booking sites and specialized travel corporations.

A'It was midnight on October 5, 1998, when the truck containing the famed art collection amassed by George Costakis arrived at the Lazariston Monastery in Thessaloniki.

While Lynne Barrett-Lee is planning to head south enough to be sure of sunshine, she really wants to know if wasps in Greece pose a problem Another week, another not-remotely-important-in-the- scheme-of-things stress.

Greece will be offering residence to non-EU investors buying or renting property worth over a 250,000 , in a bid to revive its moribund real estate industry, officials say.

Acropolis in background, a view from Monastiraki Metro Station square. Monastiraki is a flea market neighborhood in the old town of Athens, Greece, and is one of the principal shopping districts in Athens.

My Classical Greek Journey with an eclectic bunch of hikers was a winner from the start; organised but not regimented, as we found at our first stop - magnificent Delphi.

Everyday I learn new things on TE, often from my own photos too! This picture was taken during my flight from Leros to Athens a few days ago and trying to compose a note for my posting I found out about the existence of the island at the bottom, I had never noticed or heard of it!... It's called Rineia of Mykonos and is next to Delos .

Kris Jenner slipped on a wig during a water excursion in Greece recently, which gave her a spooky resemblance to her daughters.

An attempt by the extremist far-right Golden Dawn party to hand out food to Greeks only in defiance of a municipal ban degenerated Thursday with the city's mayor saying a party lawmaker tried to punch him and draw a gun.