Tag Archives: island

Two Irish teenagers have died over the weekend while on school vacation on the island of Ios, in the Cyclades group in the central Aegean Sea. They were classmates in the same school and had recently graduated before with other classmates traveled to Ios for summer vacations. both teenagers were …

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Monday night on the sacred uninhabited Greek island Delos: a spectacular classical concert sending a sound message for the climate change. It is is first time a concert was held at the UNESCO World Heritage site of ancient ruins. The emblematic island of Delos, the cosmopolitan center of the Mediterranean …

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The Municipal Council of Salamina has come out strongly against a tunnel link between the island and mainland Attica. The Council has reportedly objecting the project citing safety, environmental, social and economic reasons. Τhe Council wants to postpone the approval of the study (ie the environmental licensing of the project) …

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A 22-year-old tourist from Ireland has died after a fight with a compatriot. The incident took place in the Chora of the island of Ios, Cyclades, in the early morning hours of Monday. A 20-year-old Irish man has been arrested. The two men were in the same group. The 20-year-old …

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Τhe “sea snot” from the sea of Marmara has moved into the Aegean Sea and started appearing around the Greek islands of Limnos and Agios Eftratios, Greek media report on Thursday. The Municipality of Limnos has reportedly taken samples from the slimy masses and sent them to special laboratories awaiting …

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A big investment project worth 165 million euros on the Ionian island of Skorpios, east of the island of Lefkada has entered the next phase after a relevant Joint Ministerial Decision (JMD) was signed on December 31. The ambitious project on the private island, which was bought by Russian billionaire …

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The petrified trunk of a giant tree has been unearthed on the island of Lemnos in the eastern Aegean Sea. The log is believed to belong to a sequoia and is estimated to be 20 million year old an age similar to the Petrified Forest of Lesvos. The fossilized trunk …

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A faux pas or a picture from the near future? Stage II of Greek government plans to tackle the Migration problem? Will Greece set up closed pre-departure or detentions center for migrants on uninhabited islands? Maybe intention and a trick to scare off future arrivals from Turkey? Or just a …

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The island of Milos in the Cyclades has been voted as the Best Island in Europe for 2019. According to magazine Travel and Leisure, readers have Milos with 90.50 points the highest score. “One of the Cyclades, Mílos is known as the place where the famed Venus de Milo statue …

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Greek tradition wants school children to hold parades on the eve of the national and religious holiday on 25. March. While in Athens and other big cities, a lottery decides who is to parade and who remains out due to the high number of pupils, in some remote Greek areas …

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An important initiative for the free dissemination of knowledge has started in the Ateliu area of ​​Vari on the island of Syros. The idea of the Little Free Library has set foot o the island in the Cyclades in the heart of the Aegean Sea, one year after the movement …

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Astypalaia: An island has a very ambitious goal: to become the first smoke free island in the world. The goal is particularly ambitious as the island is in Greece, the country that is considered the black sheep in Europe when it comes to implementation of laws το ban or restrict …

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Every morning teacher Eleni gets on a small boat and sails to the small island of Telendos. By calm or by rough sea, whether in winter or in summer. She covers a distance of less than one nautical mile between Telendos and the island of Kalymnos where she lives with …

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For three consecutive days animal welfare volunteers kept sailing to the small uninhabited island to rescue lives. More than 50 cats, a couple of dogs and even a goat baby were abandoned on the island without proper care, food and water. In the middle of summer, in July. Starving, thirsty …

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Greek fishermen have denounced that Turkish fishermen fired shots at them near the island of Leros in the Dodecanese in Greek territorial waters. Nobody was hurt in the incident that took place off the islet of Kalapodi, some 300 meters from the shores of Leros on Sunday morning. Speaking to …

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An unexplained mystery occurs in the paradise on Greek earth, the small island of Skorpios: a mysterious and eerie shadow is wandering through the roads leading to the vineyards and  through the rooms of the famous pink villa at night causing shiver to workers and locals. The unearthly silhouette resembles …

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The NATO accepted the Turkish demand to exempt the island of Lemnos from an joint multinational exercise with the participation of member states of the North Atlantic alliance. This decision left Greece with no other choice than to withdraw from the NATO exercise on electronic warfare. Last year, the island …

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They slaughter sea turtles on the island of Naxos. Since the beginning of the year, a total of ten sea turtles have been washed up at the beaches of the Greek island in the Cyclades in the Aegean sea. All of them were beheaded. The Greek Sea Turtles Protection and …

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Hardly has been the sale of Skorpios officially announced and workers moved in to start the …move out. Trucks loaded with expensive furniture and rusty construction machines get on the ferry boat, carrying away the memories of a legend,  the myth of Aristotle Onassis – the poor boy that managed to acquire a wealth, …

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Skorpios: the small island on the Ionian Sea, where legendary tycoon Aristoteles Onassis married Jacqueline Kenndy, changes ownership. Half a century after Onassis purchased the island,  his granddaughter Athina, 28, sold it to Ekaterina Rybolovlev, 24, daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry. After several days of scenarios circulating in the Greek press, …

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