Greek = bleak. A picturesque beach on the northwestern tip of Crete has gone viral, not for its stunning sand or crystalline waters but for the hordes of tourists allegedly shoehorning its shoreline. In footage with nearly a million views, Crete’s Balos Beach is shown with a veritable plague of tourists crowding its narrow pier … Read more
Tourists hopping between Greece’s islands on high-speed ferries are reporting rough rides and brutal bouts of seasickness along the way. Across social media, travelers this summer have been opening up about stories of rocky crossings, ill passengers and crews handing out sickness bags. Given all the reports, the ferry has been dubbed the “vomit comet,” according to The … Read more
Paulina Gretzky was glowing while yachting in Greece, as seen in new Instagram photos the model shared Monday. The daughter of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky wore a black bikini and sunglasses as she posed near a statue of a sparkling black jaguar. She posted her location as Corfu, Kerkira, a stunning Greek island and its … Read more
Call it “the Odyssey effect.” As film fans battle it out to watch an ancient Greek battle on IMAX, Mount Olympus — the legendary home of the gods, according to Greek mythology — is getting international protection from UNESCO. This week, the United Nations hub for historic preservation named Mount Olympus as one of its … Read more
For millions of nervous flyers, the scariest parts of flying are usually the same: violent turbulence, engine failure, or a crash. Getting sucked halfway out of a shattered airplane window seldom makes the list. That nightmare became a horrifying reality last week aboard a Ryanair flight over Greece — when a passenger was partially pulled from … Read more
Sing, O Muse, of… like… whatever. As Christopher Nolan’s take on “The Odyssey,” one of the oldest surviving works of literature most were forced to read in elementary school, threatens to smash the box office this weekend, internet moaners are griping about everything from the casting to the script and the soundtrack, which blends ancient … Read more
Aryna Sabalenka is putting her Wimbledon woes behind her. The world No. 1 women’s singles tennis player jetted off to Greece for a holiday with fiancé Georgios Frangulis following her early exit from the grass court tournament where she lost to Naomi Osaka in the Round of 16. Sabalenka, 28, shared a series of photos on … Read more
If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a private island, now’s your chance — for less than the price of many US homes. A Greek island called Makri is up for sale. It was originally advertised with a value of about $9.2 million when it was first listed by high-end real estate companies back in 2022, … Read more
How many Greek islands are there? Actually, no one can agree. Depending on what you qualify as an island (as opposed to a rock) there’s up to 6,000, with 227 of them inhabited. Scattered within the Aegean, Mediterranean and Ionian seas, essentially there’s a Greek isle for everyone, from off the grid (Gavdos) to large … Read more
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift “danced all night” while attending the wedding of his Chiefs teammate, defensive end George Karlaftis and his wife Kaia Harris in Athens, Greece on Saturday, according to the Huffington Post Greece. Karlaftis, who grew up in Athens, and Harris tied the knot at the luxury coastal resort One&Only Aesthesis in Glyfada … Read more
Achoo fly? One Greek woman’s close encounter with a family of sheep bot flies is nothing to sneeze at. It all started next to a field of grazing sheep in Greece, where an unidentified 58-year-old was working outdoors in the dry September heat. She “noticed numerous flies swarming around her face,” according to a new … Read more
A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, selling for about four times its expected price at a Danish auction house on March 1. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was hammered down for $179,920 excluding buyer’s premium at Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers’ online sale. The piece had been … Read more
So-called “golden” visas enjoyed a boom in popularity among America’s wealthiest over the past year. Mo Bennis, an associate vice president at Arton Capital, a global financial advisory and consultancy firm, told Fox News Digital that many Americans realized these special visas represent “the ultimate insurance policy against uncertainty.” Bennis shared the top five destinations his … Read more
The heavens have opened up. Tourists to the Acropolis in Athens will soon be able to enjoy a sight that hasn’t been visible for a very long time — a clear view of the Parthenon. For the first time in 20 years, the scaffolding will come off the iconic temple to Athena, offering visitors an … Read more
Forget the golden foliage of the Catskills or the cozy cottages of the Adirondacks, the trendiest fall getaway near New York City is…New Haven, Connecticut? According to Skyscanner’s annual Travel Trends report, the New England town is one of the places with the biggest increase in searches over the past 12 months — and the … Read more
Call him Jerk-ules. A tourist has been labeled “disrespectful” after lifting up an ancient chunk of marble for a photo-op in Naxos, Greece, as seen in a concerning Facebook post. “They have crossed the line,” Kiriakos Jr. Boulamatsis, a Naxos resident who took the photo, captioned the post. “Wake up before it’s too late.” The … Read more
It might not be all it’s cracked up to be. Summertime is when many tourists travel to European hotspots like Italy and Greece — but oftentimes the experience people encounter there during the busy season is anything but relaxing. According to Jam Press, 27-year-old Gabriella Barras spent close to $3,000 on a four-day trip to … Read more
Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in transforming reckless Jones-style treasure hunting into the modern science of archaeology we know today. That institute, the German Archaeological Institute at Athens (DAI … Read more
Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is on island time as rumors swirl about a potential new NBA home. The former two-time league MVP, currently at the center of offseason trade rumors, was filmed dancing on a boat in his native Greece in a TikTok video posted Sunday. “Meanwhile in Greece,” Antetokounmpo captioned the post, adding … Read more
Five women who staged a semi-nude photo shoot on a pole outside a “cultural landscape” at 1:30 a.m. while on holiday in Greece have faced court. British dancers Imogen Gunter-Zak, 30, Sharon Randell, 57, Alisha Haddrell, 32, Katie Clark, 40, and a German woman were allegedly filmed swinging around the white post at Corfu’s Old … Read more