Aegean islands

Lifestyle magazine “JETSETTER” presents the most amazing Greek hotels in its online version. The unbelievable blue waters with the stark white houses make the perfect composition for the unique picturesque scenery of the Greek islands. The real conundrum is which island to choose, according to the article.

From Jetsetter.com

British newspaper Guardian’s writer Hannah Jane Parkinson writes a piece entitled “Island hopping in Greece’s Dodecanese”, where she explains why she is obsessed with the small island of Leros. From the Guardian:

The Greek Meteorological Services (EMY) issued a severe weather warning for Saturday. The bulletin says northern parts of Greece will be hit with heavy showers, accompanied in some areas with hail. The regions expected to mainly be affected are: the Peloponnese, Crete, the Cycladic and Dodecanese islands and possibly eastern mainland Greece.

An ancient Greek amphora was found in the house of a 67-year-old man on the island of Kalymnos. Police discovered the artifact after being tipped off about the possibility of illegal possession of antiquities by a source. The man was taken into custody for questioning while the item was confiscated and taken to the island’s archaeological museum.

The Port Authority on the southeastern Aegean island of Symi was on Wednesday investigating claims by a Turkish man found stranded on a rocky islet nearby.

The 27-year-old Turkish national was rescued by a Port Authority patrol boat with the help of a local fisherman and claims to be a lawyer with all the proper travel documents allowing him to enter Greece and the European Union.

Four holiday islands are reacting to plans to create wind parks with a capacity of 316.7 megawatts, which are seen providing power for the mainland, saying they would constitute an eyesore.

As the trilateral naval exercise Noble Dina 2017, with the participation of Greece, the US and Israel, came to a close Thursday afternoon with a ceremony at the Israeli Navy headquarters in Haifa, Greek military authorities were put on heightened alert after Turkey issued another navigational telex (navtex) saying that one of its research vessels will conduct "scientific exploration" on Friday

The Cycladic Art Museum in Athens has extended until April 9 its exhibition "Cycladic Society," showcasing more than 200 exhibits from the museum's permanent collection, as well as antiquities from the National Archaeological Museum, the Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum and the archaeological museums of Naxos, Apeiranthos, Syros and Paros.

The Greek island of Santorini is a regular feature on renowned travel magazine “T+L”. It is no surprise really, given its incredible natural beauty. This time the magazine included the majestic island in a piece titled “23 Photos Proving Santorini is Actually Heaven on Earth”.

Italian, Germans, English and, of course, Greeks, a total of 100.000 people passed from the town of “Portolago”, leaving their mark on an island of just 8.000 people…
The island was practically built from the ground up on uniquely original blueprints, only to be destroyed during the WWII.