http://gogreece.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2012-02-18T00:55:14Z Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:55:14 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/22/about-greece-travel-readers-choice-awards-voting-begins.htm The big day is here - voting on the final nominees for 11 categories of awards starts at midnight Wednesday, February 22nd. You can see and vote in all the ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/22/about-greece-travel-readers-choice-awards-voting-begins.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/22/about-greece-travel-readers-choice-awards-voting-begins.htm Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:01:26 +0000 2012-02-22T00:01:26Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/18/on-this-day-in-greece-february-18th.htm This is one of two dates often cited for the birth of <A HREF=http://gogreece.about.com/od/greeklanguage/tp/kazantzakis.htm">Nikos Kazantzakis</A>, Cretan-born writer renowned for "Zorba the Greek", "Report to Greco", and "The Last Temptation of Christ", among many other works. (The other date is December 2nd). http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/18/on-this-day-in-greece-february-18th.htm Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:55:14 +0000 2012-02-18T00:55:14Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/18/yabba-dabba-dont-yogi-superyacht-sinks-off-skyros.htm What is it with ships in the Mediterranean lately? First there was the tragic Costa Concordia disaster and now this - a so-called "superyacht" tilting over and sinking near the ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/18/yabba-dabba-dont-yogi-superyacht-sinks-off-skyros.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/18/yabba-dabba-dont-yogi-superyacht-sinks-off-skyros.htm Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:29:10 +0000 2012-02-18T00:29:10Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/armed-robbers-strike-olympia-museum.htm An early-morning armed robbery has stripped the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Antiquity at ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/armed-robbers-strike-olympia-museum.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/armed-robbers-strike-olympia-museum.htm Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:44:03 +0000 2012-02-17T19:44:03Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/strings-in-greece-lets-cellobrate.htm I love finding the many ways people choose to experience their time in Greece - and if you love music, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=/od/tourpackages/a/Strings-In-Greece-Music-On-Kythira.htm ">Allcomers Music Strings in Greece</a> experience is an unusual ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/strings-in-greece-lets-cellobrate.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/17/strings-in-greece-lets-cellobrate.htm Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:28:12 +0000 2012-02-17T06:28:12Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/12/protests-turn-wild-in-athens.htm Greece is in for a rough night as protesters in Athens have set fire to buildings and Syntagma Square has been intermittently cloaked in tear gas, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17003432">BBC reports</a>. It's ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/12/protests-turn-wild-in-athens.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/12/protests-turn-wild-in-athens.htm Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:16:47 +0000 2012-02-12T17:16:47Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/10/anti-austerity-protests-strikes-in-greece-friday-saturday.htm While financial deal talks drag on, despite an announcement of a kind of agreement on Thursday, anti-austerity protestors are taking to the streets in Greece Friday. Protestors were reported to ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/10/anti-austerity-protests-strikes-in-greece-friday-saturday.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/10/anti-austerity-protests-strikes-in-greece-friday-saturday.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:19:56 +0000 2012-02-10T07:19:56Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/from-temples-to-apartment-towers-aphrodite-under-siege.htm The grand city of <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/od/thessaloniki/Thessaloniki_Greeces_2nd_Largest_City.htm">Thessaloniki</a> in the north of Greece is often skipped by visitors who are naturally seduced by the call of the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/od/athenssightseeing1/a/parthenonathens.htm">Parthenon</a> and other monuments in Athens ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/from-temples-to-apartment-towers-aphrodite-under-siege.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/from-temples-to-apartment-towers-aphrodite-under-siege.htm Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:47 +0000 2012-02-09T21:59:47Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/oldest-living-thing-in-greece-may-be-poseidon.htm No, not the Greek god of the sea <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/cs/mythology/a/mythposeidon.htm">Poseidon</a> - but the sea grass called <I>Posidonia oceanica</I>, which grows throughout the Mediterranean and forms vast clumps off some Greek islands, ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/oldest-living-thing-in-greece-may-be-poseidon.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/oldest-living-thing-in-greece-may-be-poseidon.htm Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:56:52 +0000 2012-02-09T09:56:52Z http://gogreece.about.com/b/2012/02/09/and-thats-vat.htm As long as Greece is in the Euro Union, travelers to Greece will be paying the VAT - the Value Added Tax which is appended to almost any purchase. 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