Yesterday night, we booked a car from Hertz, just under £130 for 7 days. Hertz has a branch in Piraeus, which is convenient as we will be staying there.
We get the cheapest car, which is supposed to be a Hyndai small, manual car. It is just for two of us and won't go so far, so it should be ok.
I still have to make my luggage, but I don't think I will do it until tomorrow.
Now... I am going to watch CSI Miami and then go to bed.
26 August, 2008
25 August, 2008
Finally going back to Greece
I have not updating either this blog and Gate to Greece web site for a while. It was because I have not been to Greece for a while for personal reasons. But finally this summer, I will be back and I will have something to write about Greece and Greek stuff!
Apart from making the site, I want also to write day-to-day matters in this blog so that I can record information useful to myself and, hopefully, to others as well.
To start, this year, I bought Swiss airline ticket for £172 from Birmingham to Athens, and back, departing 28th August and returing 9th Sept. This was not the cheapest option I could chose, as I got a slightly better-timed, humanly acceptable option for the way-out. The cheapest one was about £150, if I remember well.
We will be renting a car for a week in Athens. We found a rather convenient offer on Expedia and Opodo: book 5 days, and get 2 days free. We pay £130 for a small, economy car rental for 7 days.
We decided not to go to islands this summer, and to go to Peloponnese instead. Dim, who is native Greek speaker, tried to book a hotel in Nafplio by phone, but the hotels are very expensive there and there wasn't nothing less than 50 euros even without breakfast (breakfast is not a small matter, as we have to pay AT LEAST 3.50 euros a head, so 7 euros for us two; if you travel in two and find a room for 60 euros with breakfast, there is very little difference from room for 50 euros without breakfast).
I found cheaper offers, searching www.booking.com, in a nearby village called Toló for 40 euros a night, without breakfast, but with a small kitchen and a fridge (these are great tools to save odd expenses). Toló, that we have never heard about, looks to be a sort of beach resort village, 8km from Nafplio; I found many fabulous photos in flikr.com. As we have a car, we don't have problem in moving around. The moral of the story is that the web is a great tool to look for cheap accomodation, and it is not true any more that local native speakers get better deals in Greece.
While we are in Nafplio, I hope to see an ex-colleague of mine who lives in Argos.
We plan to visit Corinth Canal, Akrokorinthos (as we had been to Corinth itself a several years ago, we don't think entering the Corinth site), Nafplio, Mycenae, Epidauros and Dimitsana. Time permitting, we will also visit Argos, Tiryns, and Tripoli.
We try to go also to Chalkida (ancient Chalkis) on a different day to meet up with our old friends, if we are not too tired from the trip to Peloponnese.
Places I want to explore this time include Glyphada, Valkiza and Voula. There are popular beaches, nice shops and restaurants, and lots of people from Athens in these areas.
I will report how the things will be either from Greece or from Birmingham when we will be back home.
Apart from making the site, I want also to write day-to-day matters in this blog so that I can record information useful to myself and, hopefully, to others as well.
To start, this year, I bought Swiss airline ticket for £172 from Birmingham to Athens, and back, departing 28th August and returing 9th Sept. This was not the cheapest option I could chose, as I got a slightly better-timed, humanly acceptable option for the way-out. The cheapest one was about £150, if I remember well.
We will be renting a car for a week in Athens. We found a rather convenient offer on Expedia and Opodo: book 5 days, and get 2 days free. We pay £130 for a small, economy car rental for 7 days.
We decided not to go to islands this summer, and to go to Peloponnese instead. Dim, who is native Greek speaker, tried to book a hotel in Nafplio by phone, but the hotels are very expensive there and there wasn't nothing less than 50 euros even without breakfast (breakfast is not a small matter, as we have to pay AT LEAST 3.50 euros a head, so 7 euros for us two; if you travel in two and find a room for 60 euros with breakfast, there is very little difference from room for 50 euros without breakfast).
I found cheaper offers, searching www.booking.com, in a nearby village called Toló for 40 euros a night, without breakfast, but with a small kitchen and a fridge (these are great tools to save odd expenses). Toló, that we have never heard about, looks to be a sort of beach resort village, 8km from Nafplio; I found many fabulous photos in flikr.com. As we have a car, we don't have problem in moving around. The moral of the story is that the web is a great tool to look for cheap accomodation, and it is not true any more that local native speakers get better deals in Greece.
While we are in Nafplio, I hope to see an ex-colleague of mine who lives in Argos.
We plan to visit Corinth Canal, Akrokorinthos (as we had been to Corinth itself a several years ago, we don't think entering the Corinth site), Nafplio, Mycenae, Epidauros and Dimitsana. Time permitting, we will also visit Argos, Tiryns, and Tripoli.
We try to go also to Chalkida (ancient Chalkis) on a different day to meet up with our old friends, if we are not too tired from the trip to Peloponnese.
Places I want to explore this time include Glyphada, Valkiza and Voula. There are popular beaches, nice shops and restaurants, and lots of people from Athens in these areas.
I will report how the things will be either from Greece or from Birmingham when we will be back home.
22 May, 2007
Delos Museum
It has been quite a long time since I posted the last entry.
This weekend I uploaded a page on Delos Archaeological Museum.
Again, I could not see the museum as I wanted, because we were for some reason "constrained" to move with a group. I literary ran inside the museum to shoot some photos, as I did not have enough time!
18 April, 2007
Greek Sweets
I started to translate the food related pages into English. Some pages are bit scarse, but some have rich content. Please take a look.
Greek Food: http://www.mesogeia.net/food_en.html
Greek Sweets: http://www.mesogeia.net/food/glyko_en.html
Ravani: http://www.mesogeia.net/food/glyka/ravani_en.html
Karidopita: http://www.mesogeia.net/food/glyka/karidopita_en.html
Fanouropita: http://www.mesogeia.net/food/glyka/fanouropita_en.html
13 April, 2007
Some new pages of Delos
It has been long time that I don't post to this blog, but I have been constantly up-dating Gate to Greece.
Recently I enriched the section on Delos. These are the new pages:
Shrines of Hermes and Maia
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/deloshermesmaia.html
Theatre
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/delostheatre_en.html
House of Cleopatra
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/deloshousekleopatra_en.html
House with a window
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/deloswindow_en.html
Stoa of Philippos
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/stoaphilippos_en.html
Minoan Fountain
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/delosminoanfountain_en.html
Terrace of Lions (Naxian Lions)
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/delos/delosnaxianlions_en.html
In near future, I will add more pages to the section of Kos.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)