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Archive for the 'Quirks & curiosities in Greece' Category

Quirks & Curiosities: On Samos, you don’t even have to pull off the street to gas up your car!

06 Mar 2012

This Eko gas station occupies the ground level of a building on a commercial and residential street in the town of Vathi, on Samos. The fuel pumps sit on the edge of the road, smack up against the front of the building.    Sidewalk station: While we were walking around the main town of Vathi [...]

Posted in East Aegean Islands, Greek Islands, Greek Islands photos, May 2010, Quirks & curiosities in Greece, Samos by: admin
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Quirks & curiosities: Our windowless cave-style Santorini hotel room with its low ‘hobbit’ door

28 Aug 2011

Room 119 at Grotto Villas/Cliff Side Suites in Firostefani had no window …   … and the door was only 5 feet 5 inches tall. Don’t forget to duck!   Head knocker: Santorini is world-renowned for spectacular scenery, and its magnificent caldera views drew us back to the island three consecutive years in a row. [...]

Posted in Cyclades islands, Greek Islands, Greek Islands hotels, Greek Islands photos, May 2006, Quirks & curiosities in Greece, Santorini by: admin
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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 [...]

Posted in Cyclades islands, Greek Islands, Greek Islands hotels, Greek Islands photos, June 2005, Naxos, Our Greece holidays in past years, Quirks & curiosities in Greece by: admin
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