That atypical travel tip, that by getting lost in the alleys of a city you get to know it better than when you only move through the main streets that your GPS guides you through, really makes sense in Tirana.

“Tirana is the starting point, where the possibilities begin / there is my future there my dreams / where the mosque and the church are side by side (ed. Albania has been a truly untrodden country for years) / where Nano and Berisha separate and meet / where Lana (ed. the river that runs through the city) stinks, the shops sell perfume / where there are intellectuals and rednecks / Tirana you are in our hearts / you are crazy / you live in the long hours / drunk as you are, you are ours / these are our Tirana, the Tirana of contrasts / of war and peace / of darkness and light / of lies and truth / of interest / of fun and anxiety / of dances and business. Anything can happen, since we live in Tirana / where not only women use make-up but also apartment buildings.” From the moment he was elected mayor of the city in 2000, Edi Rama began to colour the city. And in the West Side Family piece above he joins in, “spitting rhymes” himself. Much of what their own Half-Scumbrios talk about can be seen in three days of touring the city that is normally, in Albanian, female.
Where to eat

If you want to get your breakfast quickly, on hand, like the locals, look for one of their own cheese shops, the “byrektore”, which you’re sure to find on your street – in their window you’ll see pies with very thin crust. They roll out this dough, bake it and then bake it again with the filling, minced meat, pumpkin, beans, tomato and onion, leek and milk. You can accompany the pie of your choice with sour milk.

For a fine dining experience, at Mullixhiu, which means “miller”, a young chef who has apprenticed at starred restaurants abroad and Denmark’s top Noma, Bledar Kola, says he wants his cuisine to “challenge the global dictatorship of French cuisine”.

For good coffee, the choices are few and far between. But you can visit the city’s first third wave coffee shop, Antigua Specialty Coffee (Rruga Perlat Rexhepi 1001). There you’ll find thoughtful espresso, matcha burnt cheesecake and egg toast, sweet pancakes and smoothie bowls.
In the main square and in the large city park

Named Skanderbeg, it stretches over forty thousand square meters and is part of the largest pedestrian street in the Balkans. In the expanse of this award-winning for its design square you will see the statue of the country’s national hero, George Castriotis Skanderbeg, who gave it its name, the thirty-five-metre-high Clock Tower, the Opera House, the Palace of Culture, the National History Museum, the National Library, the Muslim mosque dating back to 1794. From there you will be led to Deshmoret e Kombit Avenue, you will find colorful low buildings of Italian architecture, the City Hall, the Parliament, the Academy of Arts, the Technical University of the city.

Tirana’s large park, the Grand Park or Parku i madh i Tiranës was built in the 1950s and is a space that is used by the residents. It includes a large artificial lake and botanical garden, consists of about 120 species of trees, shrubs and flowers and you can walk around it before visiting the Mullixhiu restaurant located right next to it.

Tirana can be reached by air as the city has its own airport, 17 km from the centre. To get to the centre you can use a tirana airport taxi or one of the local buses that leave every hour. Of course you can also travel to Tirana by road as the capital is 394 km away from Thessaloniki.

Taxis in Athens will make it possible for you to travel everywhere you need, even if you wish to visit locations which may be regarded for experienced vacationers only. For instance, the city of Athens features a lot of leisure areas that can’t be arrived at by public bus or metro. You’ll either need to walk or just ignore them completely, while a taxi can permit you to explore nearly any location in Athens, regardless of where it is, regardless of how well-known or otherwise it is.
Athens Taxi features private tours in Greece that’ll be personalized for you together with your family members or buddies. As a result, your holidays will be fully worry-free, you’ll relax, unwind, benefit from the vistas and points of interest. You will need to worry about nothing else than paying attention to the driver supplying you with information and details about culture and life in Athens and Greece in general.

You may be willing to pay for luxury holidays in Athens, however when it involves transportation, you need to make sure that you’ve got a plausible solution to getting around without ever becoming lost within the many areas in this city. Discovering Athens by taxi gives you the opportunity to avoid bigger organised groups of fellow travellers. Only ponder just the number that tourists have experienced a very poor time on their holiday purely because they didn’t endure well sites packed with people or as their tour schedule was too rigid for their personal preferences.

Usually the half day private trip lasts about 5 hours of visiting the primary locations inside Athens. This half-day excursion provides a thorough knowledge of the primary monuments and sites in Athens, including a visit to the Parthenon, the Stadium from the 2004 Olympics and much more. Athens Airport Taxi

The airport is surrounded by the charming locales of Mykonos, named after the local hero, Mykonos, the offspring of the war god Apollo. The Mykonos Airport is one of the busiest airports in Greece, with thousands of visitors disembarking everyday in order to enjoy the throbbing night life of this city. The Mykonos airport and the area around it are seeped with history. According to mythology, Mykonos was the location of the battle between Zeus and the Titan. Another legend has it that Hercules having defeated the giants threw them into the sea, where they turned into huge boulders of rocks. These came to be known as the Mykonos.

Mykonos Airport

Το ξενοδοχείο Classical Makedonia Palace διαθέτει εξωτερική πισίνα και κέντρο ή χώρο γυμναστικής. Αυτό το ξενοδοχείο που βρίσκεται στην πόλη θεσσαλονίκη διαθέτει κομμωτήριο και υπηρεσίες καλλωπισμού. Οι επιχειρηματικές ευκολίες σε αυτό το ξενοδοχείο 5.0 αστέρων περιλαμβάνουν επιχειρηματικό κέντρο, ασύρματη πρόσβαση στο ίντερνετ, χώρους συναντήσεων για μικρές ομάδες, και επιχειρηματικές υπηρεσίες. Το ξενοδοχείο Classical Makedonia Palace διαθέτει εστιατόριο, μπαρ/lounge και μπαρ δίπλα στην πισίνα. Η υπηρεσία δωματίου είναι διαθέσιμη 24 ώρες το 24ωρο. Αυτό το ξενοδοχείο παρέχει μεταφορά από και προς το αεροδρόμιο (επιπλέον χρέωση). Οι εγκαταστάσεις εκδηλώσεων περιλαμβάνουν αίθουσα χορού, συνεδριακούς χώρους και δυνατότητα προετοιμασίας επίσημων δείπνων. Το προσωπικό μπορεί να φροντίσει σχετικά με υπηρεσίες γάμου, υπηρεσίες στεγνοκαθαριστηρίου/πλυντηρίων, ανταλλακτήριο συναλλάγματος και ενοικίαση υπολογιστών. Οι επιπλέον ευκολίες περιλαμβάνουν στάθμευση με υπηρεσία βαλέ, ρεσεψιόν και εγκαταστάσεις πλυντηρίων.

Classical Makedonia Palace Δωμάτια.
Το Classical Makedonia Palace έχει 283 δωμάτια. Οι τηλεοράσεις είναι εξοπλισμένες με premium δορυφορικά κανάλια και προβολή ταινιών επί πληρωμή. Τα δωμάτια διαθέτουν δωρεάν ασύρματη πρόσβαση στο ίντερνετ, δυνατότητα πραγματοποίησης απευθείας τηλεφωνικών κλήσεων, συσκευές αναπαραγωγής CD, και φωνητικό ταχυδρομείο. Τα μπάνια διαθέτουν τηλέφωνο ντουζιέρας, τηλέφωνα μπάνιου, μπουρνούζια, και επώνυμα καλλυντικά. Οι επιπλέον ευκολίες περιλαμβάνουν αυτόνομο κλιματισμό, μίνι μπαρ, και κλιματισμό. Τα δωμάτια έχουν μπαλκόνια. Επιπλέον, οι ευκολίες που είναι διαθέσιμες κατόπιν αίτησης περιλαμβάνουν σίδερα/σιδερώστρες και υπηρεσία αφύπνισης. Προσφέρεται υπηρεσία οροφοκομίας. Διατίθενται κούνιες (παιδικά κρεβατάκια) και πτυσσόμενα κρεβάτια.

Ειδοποιήσεις:

Επιπλέον τέλη και προκαταβολές μπορεί να χρεωθούν από το ξενοδοχείο κατά τη διάρκεια της παροχής της υπηρεσίας, την άφιξη ή την αναχώρηση.

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Θεσσαλονικη ξενοδοχεια

As Chania Airport does directly serve international flights, there is a full customs inspections service operating.

Checking your bags through? The airport code on the tags should be CHQ or LGSA.

The operations office telephone is 30 282106 3418 or 30 28210 83803.

Getting to Chania from the Airport
There is a bus into Chania costing 1 Euro though the schedule varies and the bus stop is just outside the airport itself. A taxi will cost about 16 Euro, an appalling price for what is a quick trip but it may be your best option.

Chania is especially popular with Americans visiting relatives stationed at the Souda Bay base nearby. It handles about a million and a half visitors annually. Many of these are charter flights run by UK package travel companies; sometimes excess seats on these flights are sold off cheaply. You can investigate this here. Thomsonfly also offers flights to Chania.

Chania Airport, Greece, GR-731 00 Chania, Greece
Tel: (Airport Operations) +30 2821 06 3418, +30 2821 08 3803
Tel: (Airport Manager) +30 2821 06 3224, +30 2821 08 3801
Tel: (Communications) +30 2821 06 3245, +30 2821 08 3800
Fax: +30 2821 06 6100
email: kaxntl@otenet.gr
Telex: (Communications) 0291 144
SITA: CHQKMOA
AFTN: LGSAYDYX
Managing Director: Alexandros Panagiotopoulos +30 2821 08 3801
Operations Director: Em Haralambakis +30 2821 08 3803
Air Traffic Controller: I Hadjia Nastassiou +30 2821 06 3990
Public Relations Manager: Em Haralambakis
Security Manager: E Kastanakis +30 2821 08 3803
Operator: Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority/Hel Air Force

Airport Data: International, Chania 15km (9miles), Position 35°31´54″N, 024°08´59″E, Elevation 149m (488ft), Operating hours As per Notam (Win 04:00-21:00 Sum 03:00-21:00), 1 Passenger Terminal, 6 Aircraft Stands

Customs Tel: +30 2821 06 6000, +30 2821 08 3816
Fax: +30 2821 08 9177
Customs Hours: As Airport

Airfield Data: Fire Category 7
Navigational Aids: VOR-DME, NDB, TACAN
Airfield Restrictions: Military airfield
Runway 1: Heading 11/29, 3 347m (10 980ft), 53/F/B/X/U, ICAO Cat. 4D, Aircraft size max: DC-10, MD-11, Lighting: Threshold, Edge, End, LIH – PAPIS

Airlines Serving Airport: Aegean Airlines, Olympic

Cargo Facilities: Domestic Cargo Only, Refrigerated Storage, Mortuary, Health Officials, X-Ray Equipment, Military Airfield – see AIP Greece AGA 2-4-3, 1-3

Passenger Facilities: Annual Capacity 1 330 000, 12 check-in desks, 5 gates, 3 baggage claim belts, 240 short term parking spaces, 100 long term parking spaces, Post Office, Bank, Bureau de Change, Bars, VIP Lounge, Duty Free Shop, Newsagent/Tobacconist, Gift Shop, Travel Agent, Tourist Help Desk, Car Rental, Taxi Service/Rank, First Aid, Baby/Parent Room, Disabled Access/Facilities

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About Katakolon

Katakolon is beautiful place combining natural beauty and historic monuments. Katakolon is a small marine city at the western part of Ilia, located at the area of the ancient Fia and it is the current port of the prefecture. Katakolo combines sea and mountain, offering to visitors the opportunity to do a lot of things.

Many taverns and cafeterias took the place of the oldresin houses which were seen from the port. During summertime many groups of travelers visit Katakolon or choose this destination not only for their summer vacations (three or four cruise ships daily), but also for their winter holidays! Just visit Katakolon and discover it yourselves.

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Katakolon port is one of the most busy cruise ports of Greece and receives thousands of visitors every year. Katakolon itself is a small village with a main road where shops are located. The shopping in Katakolon is easy and interesting enough. There are many jewelries, clothes shops, leather accessories shops, shops with contemporary and classic art items.
On the front seaside area of the town are located many cafeterias , fish tavernas and few restaurants. There are small hotels as well.
Katakolon Greece , has also very interesting surrounding area. Katakolon serves as the gate harbor to Ancient Olympia, the birth place of the Olympic Games. Katakolon tours to Olympia are very popular.
Very close to Katakolon man can find Mercury winery and estate. The local producer of wine is very well known in Greece and is open to the public offering wine tasting and guided visit by indoor guide.
Katakolon cruise port is definitely like a very interesting “door “ to Greece’s ancient civilization and modern, contemporary life!

When you arrive by cruise ship to Katakolon port (Greece) port there are not too many alternatives. Katakolon town is of course a small charming port town but the highlight of the area is Ancient Olympia with its Museum and archaeological site. Visitors can reach Olympia by train, by the katakolon taxi service that we offer or , if they want to have a complete overview of the history and culture of the area , they can use a local expert, and book a katakolon shore excursions using a licensed English-speaking, French-speaking, German-speaking guide (guides also available in other languages). Many of the guides also dispose a degree in archaeology and are experienced with groups visiting Olympia from Katakolon. The route from Katakolon to Olympia is partly narrow but most of it is modern and safe. The duration of the drive of an excursion bus is about 40-45 minutes. Tours from the port to Katakolon are realized by cruise companies using local agents or directly by a local agent .  Katakolon Private Excursions are offered by taxi, minibus and bus, accompagnied (optional) by experienced licensed tour guides.

Services

- Katakolon Taxi Transfers – To Athens Airport, Patras Port etc

- Katakolon Taxi Tours with english speaking guide

- Katakolon Mini-bus for small groups of 16 or less

- Katakolon Bus for large groups of 30 or more

and more on request

Kyllini info

During the ancient times Kyllini was the most important port in West Peloponnisos and the main gate of Ancient Ylida, the city of the Olympic Games.

The Ancient god Hermes was the protector of the city with an amazing statue representing a phallus on a stand, a symbol of prosperity. Also in ancient Kyllini were sanctuaries of Asklipious and Aphrodites.

The Franks, at about 1204 step-up the port of Killini and created Glarentza, a new city in the place of Ancient Kyllini. From 1220 to 1223 they build the Chlemoutsi Castle. With the new port as a strong base and the mighty castle the city developed strongly and became very famous during the middle ages. The city exported plum, oil, wine and cotton.

Then next stage in Kyllini’s history was the 1428 when Konstantinos Palaiologos became the master of the city. In 1432 the port of Kyllini destroyed in order to avoid the pirates. This was the beginning of decadence ant through years the city transformed into a small settlement.

When Greece liberated from Turks the economy of Killini was based in agriculture, stock-raising and fishery. Throug the years, the connection with Eptanissa and with the main railroad network improved the city’s economy.

Today, the municipality of Kastro Kyllini has four municipal departments. The Castro has 857 residents, The Kato Panagia has 1266 residents, the Neochori has 1323 residents and the Kyllini has 952 residents.

Kyllini

Katakolon to ancient Olympia, where ancient Greeks came to celebrate the games. At the ruins of the sanctuary at Olympia, visitors can see the temples of Zeus and Hera, the floor of the original stadium and the Council House where athletes took the Olympic oath. A museum has a unique collection of Greek sculpture, ancient pieces of armor and bronze figurines found during the excavations.

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