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Sleek new Athens International Airport website is a cool & inviting digital travel gateway to Greece

July 25, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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Athens International Airport new website announcement

Athens International Airport new website announcement by the site’s creator, Mozaik Integrated Digital Marketing Agency

 

 

Digital travel: Athens International Airport has launched a striking new website that helps enhance the airport experience for travellers and establishes an impressive “digital travelling gateway” to Greece for business and leisure visitors alike.

Designed by Mozaik  Integrated Digital Marketing Agency, the sharp-looking new website is clean, crisp and easy to navigate, offering quick-to-find information about virtually everything any traveller might need to know about the airport’s services and facilities — and how and where to find them.

From real-time flight arrival and departures to airport access and transportation services, from corporate and business information to guides to duty free shops and tourism services, the website has it all — in a fun and dynamic presentation that features vivid time-lapse videoclips of scenes from the airport and Athens area.

 

One of the Athens airport website's time-lapse videos shows a dramatic sunset scene at Cape Sounion

This screen capture from the new Athens International Airport website shows one of the time-lapse video sequences that greets online visitors. This particular clip shows part of a dramatic sunset scene at spectacular Cape Sounion.

 

 

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Olympic Air offers fast island hopping alternative for travel between Mykonos, Santorini & Crete

July 22, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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Olympic Air photo of an Olympic Q400 F2 aircraft

An Olympic Q400F2 in flight. Image provided courtesy of Olympic Air.

 

Air hops: Two new Olympic Air routes give travellers an appealing and much faster alternative to ferry travel if they’re island hopping between Mykonos, Santorini and Crete this summer.

The routes, between Mykonos and Santorini, and between Santorini and the city of Heraklion on Crete, will operate three days per week only until September 15.

The inter-island flights each take 35 minutes or less and are offered on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. The new routes were introduced on June 30 to coincide with peak travel season in Greece. The flights are not offered at other times of the year.

The routes enable travellers to move between the islands in about half the time it would take on highspeed ferries, and in some cases offer considerably more convenient morning departure and arrival times.

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Jackie O’ Beach Club is a classy new addition to legendary Super Paradise beach on Mykonos

July 2, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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Jackie O' Beach Club at Super Paradise beach on Mykonos

The Jackie O’ Beach Club & Restaurant opened July 1 at Super Paradise beach on Mykonos. The aerial photo below shows the new club’s location on the hillside overlooking the west end of picturesque Super Paradise beach. The pictures were posted on Facebook by club co-owner Carsten Stehr, who created the stylish new beach venue with business partner Michalis Sigounas. Click on the images to view them in full-size format.

 

Aerial view of the new Jackie O' Beach Club at Super Paradise beach on Mykonos

 

 

Club class: A stylish new restaurant and bar has opened at Super Paradise, one of the legendary party beaches on Mykonos.

Featuring Cycladic sculptural design elements in an amphitheatrical hillside setting at the west end of Super Paradise beach, Jackie O’ Beach boasts a large open-air bar, a 150-seat restaurant, private lounge areas, its own beachfront, swimming pool, jacuzzi and even a church.  A Sotris clothing and fashion accessories shop is also part of the complex, which opened on the site of the former Coco Beach Club (see my August 16 2011 post for a description of the old club, as well as photos of the location’s terrific views of Super Paradise beach and bay).

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Aegean & Olympic Air introduce low fare calendars

June 26, 2013 / / 2 Comments
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Aegean Airways low fare calendar

Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air have both added low fare calendars to complement their online reservation systems

 

Look way ahead: Two Greek airlines have enhanced their online booking systems with new calendars that make it easy for travellers see the lowest available airfares for the next 11 months.

In their regular weekly email updates this week, Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air both announced their new low fare calendars, which provide at-a-glance information on the cheapest airfares being offered over the course of the following 11 months.

 

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All eyes on tonight’s ‘super moon’ above Greece

June 23, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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Anthony Ayiomamitis full moon photograph

Anthony Ayiomamitis captured this gorgeous photo of a golden full moon rising above the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion in Greece on May 5 2012. It’s the featured photo on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.

 

Moon event: You can be sure that a lot of people in Greece will keep looking skyward tonight as the biggest full moon of 2013 rises on its dramatic pass across the sky.

According to the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, the exact full phase of the moon will occur at 11:32 UT, shortly before the moon reaches perigee — the closest point to Earth in the lunar orbit.

Since this Full Perigee Moon will be the biggest and closest full moon of the year, restaurants, bars and clubs across Greece will be celebrating the big occasion with a variety of events, from quiet viewings over cocktails to special dinner menus and even some all-night-long dance parties with world-renowned DJs entertaining.

 

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Island sail tour is a must for Milos visitors

June 18, 2013 / / 3 Comments
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Milos tour sailboat

A poster at the Adamas marina advertises the daily Milos tours that J & J Yachting offers on the sailboat Joanna I

 

 

Milos must-see / must-do: One of the top tourist activities on Milos in the southwest Cyclades is a day trip that actually takes place off the island — on a sailing yacht or tour boat cruise along the marvellous Milos coastline.

Created by 3 million years of volcanic activity, Milos boasts some of the most impressive landscapes in all the Greek islands, including dozens of breathtaking beaches and a spectacular 139-kilometer-long coastline.

The stunning coastal scenery is best viewed from the sea, of course, and a variety of sailboat tours and day cruises are available from Adamas, the main port town on Milos. Excursions typically depart the Adamas marina between 8 and 10 a.m. in the morning, and return by sunset. Many of the sailboat tours take sightseers past western Milos as far as the dramatic cliffs at Kleftiko, near the island’s southwest tip, while other excursions travel completely around Milos. Some tours offer trips to Antimilos, Kimolos and other nearby islands.

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Our sailboat tour to Sykia and Kleftiko on Milos

June 18, 2013 / / 3 Comments
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Excursion sailboats anchored at Kleftiko on the southwest coast of Milos

Excursion sailboats anchored off the scenic cliffs at Kleftiko near the southwest tip of Milos. Click the photo to view it full-size.

 

 

Stunning scenery: It has been nearly six years since we took a sailboat tour along the scenic western coast of Milos, but my memories of the trip are still so vivid it seems as though it happened only yesterday.

As I described in the preceding post — Island sail tour is a must for Milos visitors — sailboat excursions and boat cruises rate among the top recommended tourist activities on Milos, thanks to the island’s spectacular coastal scenery.

A sailing tour was at the top of our personal “must-do” list when we visited Milos for the first time in mid-September 2007, but we had to wait several days to take one of the popular excursions because high winds forced most boats to remain in port.

It was well worth the wait.

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Santorini’s superlative scenery, on film

May 2, 2013 / / 0 Comments
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A screen capture of the title page for the Santorini Freedom film by Aegean Films

A screen capture from Freedom, a fabulous 5-minute film by Vasili Pasioudis

 

Simply breathtaking: It has been available for online viewing on Vimeo for the past two years, but today was the first time I saw Freedom, a superb film showing Santorini’s spectacular scenery, and I just have to pass along the link so others can see it, too.

Produced by Aegean Films, the five-minute film by Vasili Pasioudis tries “to show that despite all the modern day craziness in this world, there are still corners of this globe one can run to, to forget about ‘things’.”

Watching the film certainly made me forget about everything else for five minutes — and then made me wish we were going back to Santorini during our upcoming Greek holiday this month.

Below, I have posted three more screen captures of scenes from Vasili’s film, just to tease you with a few examples of the simply breathtaking, gorgeous scenes you’ll see in the film. (Don’t forget to turn up your speakers … the film’s soundtrack features music by Darren Hayes & Daniel Jones of Savage Garden.)

 

 

Santorini Freedom film view of early morning sunshine on the village of Oia

Early morning sunshine on the incredibly picturesque village of Oia

 

 

Santorini Freedom film view of Skaros Rock and Imerovigli village

Skaros Rock and Imerovigli village

 

 

One of Santorini's fabled sunsets is captured in spectacular glory on the Santorini Freedom film

One of Santorini’s fabled sunsets, viewed from a clifftop café in Fira

 

 

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