Category: Greek Islands photos

  • Pic of the day: St George’s beach on Naxos

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    Waves break off St George's Beach on Naxos island during a windy but gloriously sunny October afternoon

    We just got home from a 2-week visit to Naxos a few days ago. We’re suffering tremendous jet lag, and really miss being in gorgeous Greece, but at least we have thousands of photos we can view to take our mind off the miserable fall weather at home. I’ll be sharing many of those pictures with you in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, I can summarize Naxos in just one word: Amazing!

     

  • Pic of the day: A church path on Sifnos

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    Chapel of the Seven Martyrs on Sifnos island

    A stone path leads up a hill to the Chapel of the Seven Martyrs, situated on a windy peninsula below Kastro village on Sifnos

     

     

  • Pic of the day: A Samos sunset

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    A sunset seen from Samos island Greece

    One of the sunsets we enjoyed watching from a hillside near Vathi on Samos

     

  • Pic of the day: Three windmills on Ios

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    Three windmills on a hillside above Chora village on Ios

    A row of windmills on a hillside above Chora village on Ios

     

     

  • New Ionian Islands travel guide available

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    Ionian Islands travel guide

    The cover of The Ionian Islands online travel guide, published by the Greek National Tourism Organisation, features a photo of a sailboat anchored near Navagio beach on Zakynthos (Zante) island

     

     

    Free download: A new online travel guide for the Ionian Islands is now available from visitgreece.gr, the official website of the Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO).

    The 88-page guide features maps, useful phone numbers, descriptions of must-see sights and must-do activities on each island, plus dozens of gorgeous full-colour photos. It’s organized into seven separate sections: Corfu, Diapontia Islands, Paxoi, Lefkada, Kefalonia, Ithaca and Zakynthos.

    The guide is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Russian versions. To obtain a copy of the guide, click on this link to the GNTO downloads page, scroll down, and click on the flag that represents the language you prefer.

    Don’t be surprised if you start dreaming of a holiday in the Ionians after seeing just the first few pages of the guide! Below are two of the images that appear in the publication. click on each photo to view a fulls-size version.

     

    G. Augoustinators photograph of Antisamos on Kefalonia island in Greece

    The Ionian Islands guide credits photographer G. Augoustinatos for this beautiful image of Antisamos on Kefalonia

     

     

    Porto Katsiki beach on Lefkada

    The gorgeous sky-blue sea off Porto Katsiki beach on Lefkada. The GNTO guide credits this photograph to the Lefkada Prefecture.

     

     

  • Pic of the day: A mosaic at the Patmos monastery

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    St John the Theologian icon at the Holy Monastery of Patmos

    This mosaic icon of St John the Theologian greets pilgrims passing through the entrance (below) to the Monastery of St John on Patmos island

     

     

    the entrance to the Monastery of St John on Patmos island

     

     

  • Pic of the day: A white cat on blue steps

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    a cat on Ios island

    A cat on Ios watches passersby from a staircase painted in the bold white and blue colours of the Greek flag

     

  • Pic of the day: Chimneys on a Mykonos villa

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    Traditionally designed chimneys rise from the roof of a private villa on Mykonos

    Three traditional Mykonian kapassi (chimneys) rise above a private villa on a hillside high above the Tourlos new port on Mykonos island