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Greece: A journey to the Highlands of Greece!

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Beautiful small villages and proud mountains sleeping in the crystal breath of winter... Pamvotida Lake A lake is always beautiful. Any and every moment of the day that you let your eyes embrace its serene surface.  It can be a heavenly mirror that reflects the majesty of the sky or a magical and mysterious kingdom when the gray veils of the fog caress unhurriedly its surface.  “Pamvotida”, especially, the lake of Ioannina city in northern Greece, is a canvas of a particular beauty, in the heart of winter, as tall, white Mountains stand around majestically and the impressive castle walls of the city stand as guards.  This beautiful city and its unique nature are steadily becoming a pole of attraction during this period, as the visitors venture in the nearby natural landscapes and villages, one of which, “Zitsa”, is offered for an exceptional wine-tasting experience!  The capital of Epirus, Ioannina, is the best starting point to embark on this adventure and discover the unique
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Greece: Ios island, the Kingdom of eternal youth!

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The time stops as beauty, energy and happiness collide in  an explosion of laughter and joy in this magical island! Chora of Ios at sunset (photo by Irene Mc. Photography ) The sun starts to cover in red the white graciousness of the Chora (main village of a Greek island), perched high up on the hill, as it sets deep in the blue, tender embrace of the Aegean sea around it. Gradually the bars of the Chora pump up the volume, and the music begins to invade with its notes of all the white alleys, the blood begins to warm up, the energy, the beauty and the youthfulness collide in an explosion of laughter and joy, as the time stops in the "Kingdom of eternal youth", in the seductive island of Ios . Mylopotas beach Every summer, thousands of tourists, mainly of a young age, arrive from all over the world to get lost in the vibrant cobbled alleys of the Chora and the famed bars of Ios.  They swarm in the island to live its legendary parties and swim in its co
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Location: Ios, Greece
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UK: The medieval splendour of London

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A magical historic tour of the old city of London Huge stone walls and splendid towers, dampened by the humidity of the river Thames, and paved, narrow streets leading to old pubs, abbeys and stone coats, as well as magnificent cathedrals, all of them a vivid reminder of the birth of the city of London: A small commercial city on the banks the Thames was destined to become, hundreds of years later, the center of the industrial revolution and the great metropolis that we all know. However, one just needs to wander around the streets of the old city of London and immediately he will come face to face with its bewildering past and the medieval atmosphere, witnessing this historic transition that affected not only the United Kingdom but the entire Western culture, and the whole world. The Tower Bridge and the Tower of London Your first stop in this “medieval tour” should be the prominent Tower of London, on the banks of Thames, with the Traitor's Gate resemblin
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Italy: The eternal beauty of Rome

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The eternal beauty of Rome The Tiber River, ancient, with all of its serene majesty, slowly flows amongst monuments of human grandeur. On one side the imposing St. Peter’s Cathedral stands high, in the middle of its large circular plaza aligned by columns and on the other side the Coliseum, which rises high, a solid and impressive structure covering with its shadow the ancient Roman Forum. Two symbols of different periods in history, but in the same amazing city. A city of a glorious past, and a colorful and tasty present, with heady aromas and unique beauty, that awaits you to enter its magical labyrinth. The “eternal city”, as Romans call Rome, does not belong only to them but to the whole world, and you can also make it a part of you, forever. Roman Pantheon The historic center of Rome, the Roma antica , will be, in reality, the core of your exploration, but first you will have to solve the issue of your accommodation.  In Rome, there are, actually, thousands of pl
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Location: Rome, Italy
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Greece: Exarcheia, the vibrant, colorful downtown world of Athens!

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Kallidromiou Street building The downtown district of Athens, Eksarcheia, is a dynamic and vivid neigborhood of a thousand different faces! "Two months have gone by since we have not seen each other, a whole century and nine seconds. The stars have lost their shine when you left". Poetry is written on the walls of Exarcheia, -a downtown district in Athens-, filling them like open notebooks.  Every city has the need of its Eharcheia, as a refuge for souls who seek, who search and want to be searched, or just flirt with the spirit of revolution.  Kreuzberg in Berlin or Lavapiés and Malasaña in Madrid demonstrate their unique character: a youthful spirit combined with an unyielding power and energy that stems from colorful, noisy and vivid neighborhoods. Perhaps the most multicultural district of Athens and all Greece, Exarcheia is definitely open to all, despite the various tags that many have occasionally tried to stamp to it.  Its dynamism, its multicolored crowd of
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