I though maybe this is usuful for people that want to visit greece
Aegean Airlines has a good offer (Up to 40% off) for flights to/from Greece ( Germany, Spain, Serbia United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania, Ukrain, Hungary, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Cyprus, Italy, Russia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Sweeden...)
15/09/2015 – 01/11/2015 20%
02/11/2015 – 10/01/2016 30%
11/01/2016 – 26/03/2016 40%
This is a good offer if you plan to visit Greece during autumn or winter
Going to Greece is always great as their lovely beaches & calmness makes mind easy & positive!
One can view more detail for Greece on their official site:
http://www.visitgreece.gr/
while looking for top beaches then few list is here:
http://travellingmoods.com/the-most-exotic-beaches-to-enjoy-in-greece/
To Motherlode:
While it is quite true that Greece has had a great deal of corruption with many who do not pay their fair share of taxes and that many people have been found to be in the retirement system that have either died or should never have been included in the first place. This has been well reported and documented by the mainstream media.
But not to negate this, there is a whole "country" that makes a regular practice of extracting taxpayer funds from the U.S. taxpayer social security system with full knowledge of the government itself. And of course, you have the vulture capitalists that are none too unhappy to see this whole thing play out in any country. Who wouldn't like to own a small island or the railroad system or the bank system or a UNESCO site.
But it is also true that the mayor banks (bank?) of the world, namely Goldman & Sachs, falsified the application processes for loans to Greece in the past, not that they didn't know what they were doing. In some cases as in the latest loan to bailout, these kindly and generous entities charge exorbitant interest rates sometimes up to 23% and these very corporatists who seem to do this as business as usual, lop off their interest of millions of dollars even before they turn over the "loan" to their hosts. Yes, hosts is the correct word. This is not the first time or the first instance where the banks have "helped" people who are burying themselves.
Then again, every country has its own predatory class and Greece is certainly not the only one by any means. So it is not right to single out any one country for their negative aspects in a most respected site as the Thorn Tree in the Lonely Planet.
This topic has been automatically locked due to inactivity. Email community@lonelyplanet.com if you would like to add to this topic and we'll unlock it for you.