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SOPHIE STUBER
“Hey mate!” a cyclist called to us in an Australian accent as he pedaled by on the rocky dirt road that serves as the main street of the village of Theth deep in Albania’s Dinaric Alps.
Greece’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had been in touch with his Saudi counterpart as part of discussions to avert any ecological disaster from a Greek flagged oil tanker stranded in the Red Sea after a Houthi militant attack last week.
The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adelini, on Thursday ordered a preliminary investigation into the mass fish deaths in Lake Karla and Pagasitikos Gulf in Volos, central Greece.
August in Greece is expected to end with lightening storms as a cold and unstable weather forecast is expected to affect most regions of the country until Saturday, according to an emergency bulletin issued by the national weather service, EMY, on Thursday.
A meteorological station placed at an alpine lake in northwestern Greece’s Epirus region was destroyed for the second time since 2023, volunteers of the scientific project LiMnADs told Kathimerini.
An 18-year-old woman in the northern city of Thessaloniki was charged with rape, following a complaint filed by a 20-year-old man earlier this week.
As temperatures soar and tourist arrivals swell, Greece is under pressure to reimagine a tourism model that climate change is making increasingly untenable.
“Souvlaki. And baklava. And that round bread with sesame seeds. Koulouri! These are a few things I definitely want to try while I’m in Athens,” Grace says as we head from Syntagma Square toward Monastiraki early in the morning, trying with little success to avoid the heat.
For over a century, Iordanis has made one of the most famous and distinctive Greek custard pies, with crunchy, handmade phyllo dough, mizithra cheese, and a sprinkle of crystal sugar.
Souvlaki originated in Piraeus and its heart continues to beat there even today. But which are the authentic souvlaki shops waiting to be discovered?
I recently drew up a list for a friend who was visiting Athens from abroad, with suggestions on where to go for good fish, tavernas with amazing lamb chops, the nicest wine bars and so forth.
