Athens today, is becoming very popular for short city trips. However, we personally believe that a stay of minimum 7 days is the best option, if you are interested to see more than the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, and surrounding streets.
Are you planning a trip to Athens or you would like to stay for some weeks, and you are looking for the best things to do and see in the Greek capital?
If so, then we, locals living in Athens, are happy to give our feedback.
Embark on an amazing journey in Athens with our eBook “Timeless Athens: Past and Present – Greek Heritage & Modern Charms for Cultural travelers.
—> Click here and download your FREE Athens eBook
Of course, this is only a tip of the iceberg, so let this be a motivation for you to discover even more. Let’s get started!
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A Traditional Greek Wedding And Useful Vocabulary
“Traditions” are very popular in Greece, and a Greek wedding has a lot of them! Today, most couples in Greece still choose to get married, although nowadays they usually also “live together” for a while before the wedding.
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Biking in Athens, while learning Greek!
Do you like riding your bicycle? In the last 10 years, biking became steadily more popular in Athens and Greece. It is healthy, cheap and many times quicker than using public transport, to reach your destination! Even better, every year more biking roads are becoming part of the city and biking shops are popping up in every neighborhood of the capital.
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How to make Greek frappe – the delicious ice-coffee
During warm and sunny days and especially in spring and summer, Greeks prefer to drink the cold Frappe instead of the warm Greek coffee. Also Omilo students many times are crazy about the frappe and would like to continue drinking it back home as well.
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An introduction to a famous Greek author “Alki Zei”
When learning Greek, or any other new language, it is a good idea to also start reading novels, while learning more about the culture and history. Here below, we will present the author Alki Zei.
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A Wonderful Trip to Epirus and Thessaly
A student from Belgium who has been studying Greek for many years, not only in his home country, but also at Omilo during the summer, went on a trip in September of 2018 to Western and Central Greece. We are pleased that he has written about his experiences in fluent Greek and shared them with Omilo. Below you will find an account of his trip, and the translation in English.
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Fygame Greek Language Book – Off we go to learn Greek! + AUDIO (Intermediate level)
January 2013 : A new ‘‘baby‘‘ was born within the Omilo team: ‘Φύγαμε για ελληνικά!’ Off we go to learn Greek, a Greek Language book for the intermediate level, + CD
April 2019 : The book was re-published, 2nd edition, + CD or MP3 Audio link
The proud parents are the Omilo teachers and authors Marina Braila, Konstantinos Oikonomou and Dora Stoimenidou (*).
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Athens Today – Things To Do In Modern Athens
Athens today, is becoming very popular for short city trips. However, we personally believe that a stay of minimum 7 days is the best option, if you are interested to see more than the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, and surrounding streets.
Are you planning a trip to Athens or you would like to stay for some weeks, and you are looking for the best things to do and see in the Greek capital?
If so, then we, locals living in Athens, are happy to give our feedback.
Embark on an amazing journey in Athens with our eBook “Timeless Athens: Past and Present – Greek Heritage & Modern Charms for Cultural travelers.
—> Click here and download your FREE Athens eBook
Of course, this is only a tip of the iceberg, so let this be a motivation for you to discover even more. Let’s get started!
Read more
A Greek Traditional Dance From Crete – Siganos
A Greek Traditional Dance From Crete – If you like Greek dances, then let’s learn about the “siganos”.
As you may know, every region in Greece has different dances, music and rhythms. The dances of Crete also belong to a special category. The main instrument in most of the Cretan music is the “lyra”, and usually, the rhythm of the dances is fast and the steps are rather difficult. But there is an exception: a slower dance called “siganos”.
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Greek traditional product : mastic or mastiha
Mastiha is a product that comes from the mastic tree. The sticky secretion, the resin, has the color of old wax and might not seem very special, but it has become a product that is known and wanted all over the world. Mastic has not only a unique taste but it has also been shown by scientific research that it is beneficial for the health. When a mastiha tree produces the resin, locals often refer to it as “tears”, or the “crying mastiha tree”!
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Greek 20th-century art : Yiannis Moralis
Do you like modern and contemporary art? Then Athens is the place to be. There are many options to see modern art in Athens and all over Greece. Here we write about the Greek artist Yiannis Moralis, and the RETROSPECTIVE at the Benaki Museum
As we have mentioned in our monthly Newsletters, as well as various blog articles about Greek culture, Greece is not only a country where you can witness art, architecture, and culture of 500 to 3000 years old, but also a country where you can see a lot of modern art, contemporary architecture, as well as visit museums covering the living artists or those numerous famous Greek names and talents of the 20th century.
It is our pleasure to introduce you to very known Greek painter and one of Greece’s leading 20th-century artists. Yiannis Moralis. Read more