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The New Hotel, Athens

The New Hotel, Athens

Just relooked by the Campana brothers, it epitomises cool and functional. Their scrap/recycling design style works marvels here in the lobby, and in the much published breakfast room with « trees » of recycled wood furniture elements dressing up the supporting columns.      In the bedrooms, the Campana brothers reinterpret the traditional shadow theatre, the « Karagiozis »...
The Acropolis and the Acropolis museum

The Acropolis and the Acropolis museum

 No need to present the grand site of the Acropole, it’s now also enjoyed from a pedestrian path around its base on what used to be a busy road before   The  new Acropolis Museum, terminated in 2007, offers a contemporary space to the antique sculptures and archaeologic findings of the Acropolis site, as well as some...
Santorini

Santorini

Our last trip to Greece dated from the late 80’s, a marvellous time backpacking and island hopping through the Cycladic island…also one of our first « grown up » trips with my boyfriend-husband-to-be…so it was with much emotion that we travel back there to show the marvels of Greece to our children…..and with much relief, we realise...