Things to do in Greece
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Archaeology Museum
Housed in a handsome neoclassical building, this museum contains some riveting (albeit haphazardly labelled) exhibits, including a plaster cast of the Venus de Milo that was made by craftsmen from Paris' Louvre museum (as a sort of Venus de Mea Culpa perhaps?). Best of all is a perky little herd of tiny bull figurines from the Late Cycladic period.
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Archaeological Museum
Here you can see a fragment of the 4th-century Parian Chronicle, listing the most outstanding artistic achievements of ancient Greece. Discovered in the 17th century, most of it ended up in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Typically, some of the most exquisite pieces are only plaster casts - the originals having long since been 'displaced' to museums abroad.
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Kioni
The pretty little village of Kioni may be one of Ithaki's better-kept secrets. It's draped around a verdant hillside spilling down to a picturesque miniature harbour where yachties congregate. Tavernas, bars and flower-bedecked buildings will have you reaching for your camera. For swimming, seek out the small, pebbly bays between Kioni and Frikes, 4km away.
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Vatsiana Museum
In Vatsiana, the island's priest has created a small private museum in an old stone house with items collected from the island, including agricultural and domestic tools, a loom and weavings. There is a small working traditional wood oven next door and the priest's wife, Maria, runs the quaint attached kafeneio, where you can try her ouzo and cake.
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Christian Catacombs
Milos is home to Greece's only Christian catacombs, which date from the 1st century and were the burial site for early believers. Nearby are Roman ruins, including a well-preserved ancient amphitheatre (site of the two-day Milos Festival each July). Follow the signs to the rather forlorn spot nearby where a farmer found the Venus de Milo in 1820.
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Hora
The island's capital is the concealed clifftop Hora, one of the Cyclades' most appealing villages. With pretty little churches and a medieval kastro filled with whitewashed houses draped in bougainvillea, the village draws you in to its meandering (traffic-free) main street that drifts happily from leafy square to leafy square. Atmospheric eateries abound.
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4-Day Santorini Tour from Athens
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Albanian Adventure
15 days (Dubrovnik)
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Panagia Ekatontapyliani
Dating from AD 326, this is one of the most splendid churches in the Cyclades. The building consists of three churches: Agios Nikolaos, with superb columns of marble and a carved iconostasis; the Church of Our Lady and the Baptistry. The name means Our Lady of the Hundred Gates, but this is a wishful rounding up of a still-impressive tally of doorways.
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The Museum of Prehistoric Thera
This museum houses extraordinary finds that were excavated from Akrotiri (only 5% of which has been excavated). Most impressive is the glowing gold ibex figurine, measuring around 10cm in length and dating from the 17th century BC. Many of Akrotiri's thrilling wall paintings are on display. Your ticket covers this museum and the archaeological museum.
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Grand Café
Perhaps the best regular bar in Thasos (Limenas), the Grand Café has soft corner couches and caters to a mixed Greek/international crowd. In the same area as the town's few nightclubs, it's visible from its checkerboard pillars out the front. Friendly owner Dimitris Dimitriadis insists he was not named after the street on which his bar is located.
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Akri Bar & Gallery
Adamas is home to Milos' best nightlife, and Akri is a great bar and gallery in a prime location, complete with view-enriched terrace and cocktail-supping locals and holidaymakers. Of an evening, patrons chill out to funk and Latin sounds. Upstairs is an elegant gallery selling glass jewellery, paintings, pottery and sculpture, many by island artists.
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Adriatic Adventure - Dubrovnik to Athens
9 days (Dubrovnik to Athens)
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Portego
This delightful restaurant serves excellent Cretan and Greek cuisine and has dishes cooked in the wood-fired oven (as is their bread). Try the lamb in a clay pot with yogurt. It is housed in the historic 1900s house of local character Anna Bey, whose portrait is in the back room. It has a good wine list, a lovely courtyard for summer and a cool bar.
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Mykonos Town
Mykonos Town is a captivating labyrinth that's home to chique boutiques and whiter-than-white houses decked with bougainvillea and geraniums, plus a handful of small museums and photogenic churches. Little Venice, where the sea laps up to the edge of the restaurants and bars, and Mykonos' famous hilltop windmills should be high on the must-see list.
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Acropolis of Lindos
It's about a 10-minute climb to the entrance gate of the Acropolis, spectacularly perched atop a 116m (380ft) rock. Once inside, sights include a warship hewn out of the rock by the sculptor Pythokritos, the remains of a 20-columned Hellenistic stoa, a Byzantine church, a 5th-century BC propylaeum (temple porch) and a 4th-century Temple to Athena.
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Stou Mihali
It's getting hard to find a free table at lunch at this tasty and inexpensive place serving mayirefta. Unlike many other such eateries, here you can combine half-portions and thus enjoy more variety. Everything is good; try the soutzoukakia (tomato-soaked beef rissoles), imam baïldi (roast eggplant) and Greek salad.
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Theofilos Museum
The Theofilos Museum, located next door, houses works commissioned by Teriade; several prestigious Greek museums and galleries display other more famous paintings of Theophilos, whose story followed the old pattern of many a great artist - living in abject poverty, painting coffee-house walls for his daily bread and eventually dying in the gutter.
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Sail Greece Santorini To Mykonos
8 days (Santorini)
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Temple of Apollo
From Naxos Town, a causeway leads to Palatia Islet and the unfinished Temple of Apollo (aka the Portara), Naxos' most famous landmark. Though there's not much to see other than two columns with a crowning lintel, people gather at sunset for views back to the whitewashed houses of Naxos Town scrambling up to the 13th-century kastro on the hilltop.
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Athens To Santorini
8 days (Athens)
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Vathi Beach
Vathi has one of the best beaches on the island - it is a lovely curved, sandy bay with clear waters, suitable for children. The best part of the beach is probably in front of the chichi beachfront hotel, with its loungers and umbrellas set out for guests (though the beach is open to all-comers). There's a good choice of beachside tavernas too.
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Gorgopotamos Railway Bridge
The original Gorgopotamos Railway Bridge was blown up by a coalition of Greek Resistance forces, aided by the British, on 25 November 1942. This was done in an attempt to delay the German advance, and is considered one of the greatest acts of sabotage of the time. The reconstructed bridge spans a deep ravine, just beyond the main train station.
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