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Settle a fight - Greece?

  • 27-04-2008 5:52pm
    #1
    *Roisin*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭


    Hiya,

    Heading away on a holiday with the bf this summer, nothing booked as yet though, so I'm beginning to get a tad nervous!

    We're both looking for different things, I'm more a sightseer, whereas he's happy to sit by a beach all day. We'd initially thought that we'd sorted it by going to Greece. The plan was that I could see Athens, which is something I've been dying to do for a long time, and then we could head to one of the islands and have maybe a week or so there by the beach.

    My only problem is that I've no knowledge of the islands at all, and how easy it would be to get between them. I wasn't really thinking when I suggested we do this.

    Just wondering if anyone had any advice? Should we fly in and out of Athens, and how would we get to one of the islands. On a student budget..... I'm not asking for much am I?

    Thanks a mill for any help.


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  • #2
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    Piraeus is the port in Athens where the ferry leaves from to transport you to the islands. I travelled to Sanotorini, Ios, Naxos and Paros. Santorini is quite a long ferry ride as I recall but it is a beautiful volcanic island so still lots for you to explore if you want to go and do your own thing too. I think there may be flights from Athens now too although not sure of cost, the ferry was pretty cheap. http://www.santorini.net/home.html


  • #3
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    If you like you can get a ferry just close by to Poros or Aegina and it really isn't far at all. So you can visit Athens and pop over to a nice island close by.

    Blue star ferries take you to some islands slightly further out (Andros is nice and fairly close) but I can't remember the ferry company that goes to the close islands like Poros. That link should give you a wee idea.

    Don't forget about north Greece or Pelopponese, there are some amazing sights too. Meteora is great and then up on mount olympus or wherever it was that the oracle sat (hehe, I can't remember..) some cracking places to visit.


  • #4
    TravelJunkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭TravelJunkie


    Why take a boat to the islands when you can fly for cheap?

    Aegan Airlines is a greek low cost carrier that has ample islands it goes to.

    www.aegeanairlines.gr

    click on english flag for english


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