Greece goes bust; Greece will return to the drachma; Greece is bound to resign from the EU till things balance out in the Euro zone; 15 state members in the euro zone secretly agreed to expel Greece; Germany will return to the mark and Italy to the lira.
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A New York ceremonial courtroom was graciously provided for an ancient Athens court session to take place with a 2.410 years’ time lap. On the 12th of May 2011 the ancient philosopher Socrates was retried and this time acquitted.
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Greek film director and producer Nicos Koundouros gives us the chronologically first account of Thanassis Vengos: they both were exiled on the island of Makronissos after the end of the Greek civil war in 1949.
In January of this year Harris Ikonomopoulos, President of the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Faye Leoussi, of Leoussis Advertising had a meeting with a double agenda
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People from abroad who really mean well for Greece and the Greeks use the paradigm of “illness and cure” to symbolize our situation.
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Greeks are notorious for laying great emphasis on family ties. “My big Greek fat wedding” gives a humorous first impression of what we are talking about
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I would trade just one swim on an afternoon in September for a whole week of swims at noon in August. Same beach, same bikinis, same tent, same cash availability; same outcome:
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Greece welcomed this summer many more visitors from abroad than in the previous 2 years. It’s something we all enjoy because it means additional income but also because Greeks revere whatever is cosmopolitan. We thrive in the difference.
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I met once a charismatic, genuine, small scale, Greek swindler. He was a very pleasant person, generally speaking, but you had to make sure you never lend him hundred euros because you were sure never to see those euros again in your life.
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Zagori is an area of great natural beauty and unique architecture in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus in Northwestern Greece. The area is of about 1.000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages. Zagoria villages is called by Greeks “Zagorochoria” meaning the villages behind the mountain.
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In 1989, Professor of Byzantine Studies, Helen Ahrweiler is appointed Chairman of the Cultural Centre Pompidou in Paris