MY GREECE TRAVEL BLOG

Photos, memories and stories from my journeys to Athens and the Greek Islands, including the Cyclades, Dodecanese, East Aegean Islands and Crete

Archive for the 'June 2005' Category

Swimming laps & lounging at the Yria Hotel pool

02 May 2012

Paros’s Yria Hotel has a beautiful big pool that’s perfect for swimming laps …   … plus a comfy poolside terrace that’s perfect for lounging and relaxing   Dreamy setting: Our only visit to Paros, so far, was back in June 2005, but I still recall how relaxed I got chilling out on the beautiful [...]

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Greece holiday pic of the day

06 Mar 2012

  Children play outside shops on a street in the Paros port town, Parikia  

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A colourful Oia memory gets whitewashed

04 Mar 2012

The snow-white Santorini clifftop villages of Imerovigli and Fira provide a dramatic, distant backdrop for the distinctive blue and orange colours on the exterior of the caldera-view Armeni Village Rooms & Suites …   … which we photographed during a visit to Oia in 2005  …   … but as this photo I discovered today [...]

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Cool pools: Splash and dive through the ancient Portara monument at the Naxos Beach II Hotel

01 Sep 2011

The bottom of the oval swimming pool at the Naxos Beach II Hotel is decorated with a large illustration of the Portara, the island’s most famous monument   Good swims: Our all-time favourite swimming pool in the Greek Islands is the only one in which we actually got to  spend quite a bit of time [...]

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Quirks & curiosities: Castle-sized room key in Naxos

19 Aug 2011

Our biggest hotel room key — ever — had to be the one that opened our studio at the Naxos Beach II hotel on a hillside in the Stelida district of Naxos.   The key was’t just big, but it was heavy, too. It nearly poked a hole in my shorts pocket, so we turned [...]

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