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I can propose and guide you on any kind of private, family or group tour for you, tailor-made to your own interests and time, and assist you in booking vehicles, hotels, restaurants.

05/08/2024

Celebrating the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris:
As the world gathers to watch the Olympic Games in Paris, we retrieve an object that bring us closer to the sporting practices of the past and the spirit of the games of antiquity, such as a gold stater of king Philip II from Macedonia.
Due to the richness of Mount Pangaion, the minting production of Philip II was immense. Philip II chose the head of Apollo for the obverse of his gold staters, possibly copying the tetradrachms of the Chalkidian League. The reverse depicted Philip’s victorious two-horse chariot at the 348 BC Olympic Games. This particular coin, most likely minted in the Pella mint, belongs to the numismatic collection of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.
Explore the exhibitions on a guided tour and discover the artefacts related to the history and spirit of the Olympic Games!

01/08/2024

Always a great foodie experience with slightly different choices, routes & delicious tastings each time. Offered on a guided tour in my Gastronomy city, Thessaloniki 😋 with the Explora I this time 😉

28/07/2024

The oldest souvlaki skewers found seem to be those discovered by archaeologists on Santorini island prehistoric Acrotiri site, dating back as far as 2000 BCE.
There are traces of the popularity of souvlaki on Santorini and Crete through the Bronze Age, and both Theran and Mycenean cultures made use of this method of cooking with lamb or pork grilled meat to be accompanied with bread.
These were the portable lightweight outdoor souvlaki trays made of clay one could travel with. 😋
Photo: Thera Prehistory Museum

24/07/2024

On the Greek mountains, away from the heat in one of the best wine regions and amazing traditional settlements of my country 😉🇬🇷⛰️🍷🥩

20/07/2024

An amazing 2,500-year-old ancient Greek 'cooker': three (or four) stoves, an oven, and a grill with charcoal underneath.
Found on the Greek island of Delos.
We have similar ones exhibited in Athens Acropolis Museum, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, Pella Museum, etc

16/07/2024

It's an amazing experience to be able to revisit on my tours the Lefkadia Macedonian Tombs of the Judgment and of the Flowers!
Located amongst Imathia's peach orchards, near Naousa and ancient Mieza, they are two hidden off-the-beaten-track gems in my area of Macedonia with their unique frescoes.

14/07/2024

In the early 19th century Mohammed Ali, founder of the final Egyptian dynasty, established an Imaret – a religious, educational and charitable institution – in his hometown of Kavala as the region's Ottoman ruler.
Until 1902, it functioned as an Islamic seminary, since until 1846 the education of Muslims was directly linked to religion.
The word “Imaret” derives from the Arabic word “imara”, which means “construction”. More specifically, it comes from the Arabic root AMR and is comprised of the words ΄amr (life) and isti’mar (the development of a region/place). An Imaret (külliye) is a complex of buildings that is comprised of a market, mosque and other charitable institutions. In Turkish, the kitchens of such an institution, which offered food to the poor, were also considered part of the Imaret. The core idea of the Imaret is life itself and its result is consolidation and growth. As Muslims characteristically say: “The Imaret is the heart of Islam’s growth, around which culture blossoms”.
The Kavala Imaret contains a total of two medreses (seminaries), two dershane-mescit (large domed prayer rooms), a maktab (an elementary school for boys), an Imaret (soup kitchen and home for the poor regardless of religion) and the offices of the management.
From the end of 1922 the spaces of the Imaret were used to house refugees. Later, it was converted into a museum, cafeteria and restaurant. In 2001, the Egyptian state gave it to a private entrepreneur so it could be fully restored and converted into a a luxury hotel named Imaret.

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11/07/2024

Megalochori is my favourite hidden gem in Santorini, away from the cruise crowds and yet so amazing.
It's always a joy to stay here and to guide through its narrow alleys and discover corners of absolute beauty in this village.

07/07/2024

The Turkish travel TV series star & author is at the same time a colleague tourist guide in Turkey:
Guiding Saffet Emre Tonguç and his filming crew on a roundtrip shooting the fabulous emerald Thassos island in the North Aegean for its promotion.
So much to see!

04/07/2024

A guided food tour with the Crystal Symphony guests is always a must at my Greek city of gastronomy, Thessaloniki 😉
Who said certified guides are just for museums & monuments?
I'm also trained and certified as a culinary tourist guide 😉

30/06/2024

One of my 10-day guided tours including Santorini was a successful mission completed 😊

26/06/2024

Back at The Island 😊
Spinalonga, Eastern Crete

22/06/2024

A. E. (Alicia) Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry. She grew up in Decatur, Georgia, and studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. Her poem "The Charioteer" is an ode to the Delphi amazing bronze artwork, one of Greece's highlights to be seen on a guided tour at the Oracle of Apollo's Archaeological Museum 😊

16/06/2024

For any kind of guided tour across Greece, always trust the local professionals:
Trained and certified guides of Greece by the Υπουργείο Τουρισμού - Ministry of Tourism who are the only qualified experts to show you around their country and adjust each tour to your needs, time & interests 😉🇬🇷🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
Efi Greece Guided Tours

14/06/2024

In the heart of my city, Thessaloniki, one of the metro excavations and restoration works is in full progress in one of its underground stations, at Agia Sophia.
Having such a rich history under our feet in the whole city centre, dating from the ancient till the more recent centuries, no wonder why we are still waiting for the metro to arrive!

10/06/2024

Nafplion, the former capital city of modern Greece is simply fabulous!
I always enjoy to get back there on my guided tours and explore the old town narrow alleys, with the bougainvilleas blossoming around you. A visit and a few overnights in Nafplion is not to be missed by any traveller to Greece, combined with guided visits to the Palamidi fortress, ancient Epidaurus, Mycenae, the highlights in the Argolis area of Peloponnese 😊🇬🇷

05/06/2024

A Meteora monasteries guided tour is a must!
One of the Greek highlights of my country, located in Thessaly, central Greece 😊🇬🇷

05/06/2024

A Meteora monasteries guided tour - always with a certified tourist guide from Greece - is a must!
One of the Greek highlights of my country, located in Thessaly, central Greece 😊🇬🇷

01/06/2024

200 years from Lord Byron's death is a new temporary exhibition at the Acropolis Museum.
In contradiction to the Acropolis thief and plunderer Lord Elgin, Lord Byron fought for Greece's independence from the Ottoman rule and died in Greece he loved so much.

28/05/2024

Petralona Cave visit at the renovated most important cave of northern Greece, aka Red Rocks in Halkidiki's Mt. Katsika.
Closed for almost 6 years by the Ministry of Culture the cave now is much more accessible and safe, with new pathways, steps, inox handrails and doors, new WC - including one for disabled visitors - it re-opened to public just 2 months ago.
The nearby museum is also under total renovation and will open its doors next month in June with a new video projection room for visitors.

24/05/2024

The oldest bridge in Europe can be found in Greece; named the Arkadiko Bridge, it dates back to Mycenaean times!
The Arkadiko Bridge, also named the Kazarma Bridge, is a Mycenaean construction which can be found in the southern region of mainland Greece, the Peloponnesian peninsula.
The bridge dates back to Greece’s Bronze Age, around 1,300 BC. Originally, it was built to connect the ancient city of Epidaurus with Mycenae and was therefore part of a military road network.
Τhe most interesting feature of the bridge is the way it was constructed. The bridge has remained standing and stable for thousands of years but incredibly does not use any form of binder such as mortar. Not only the weight of the limestone but also how symmetrically the blocks are placed on the vertical axis makes the bridge stable.
This style of construction, which is called Cyclopean masonry, uses massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with very little space left between adjacent stones, and no mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been shaped roughly with a hammer and the gaps between boulders filled in with smaller chunks of limestone.
The most famous and well-known works using Cyclopean masonry can be found in the Mycenae and Tiryns sites nearby, where a large percentage of walls in these areas were built using this impressive technique.
The bridge is 22 metres long, 5.6 metres wide, and 4 metres tall.
Although today it is mostly used by pedestrians, its original purpose was quite different. Archaeologists have discovered that, due to the bridge’s style and the specific way it was built, it was originally meant for use by horse-drawn chariots.
The bridge would have been used to transport goods from place to place, but also would have been traversed by Greek troops on their travels across the country.

20/05/2024

Thassos, the emerald island of the north Aegean sea, is always in my heart because it was the place where I started my guiding career 35 years ago, working here for two seasons after my graduation from the School of Tourist Guides.
A favourite corner is still the Aliki archaeological site with its twin sanctuaries and its turkoise colour bays.
Not to be missed: Aliki's ancient marble quarries right on the water. Before starting the marble transport by ship, the seafarers came here to pray, and to offer their sacrifices to the gods for protection from the sea dangers. Times and faith changed and the archaic sanctuaries were later complemented by the twin early Christian basilicas.
I also add the last photo of a modern marble quarry on Thassos today to compare it to the ancient one 😉

16/05/2024

Just a perfect day on my ancient Stageira guided tour.
Stageira is known as Aristotle's birthplace and is located on Halkidiki's east coast.
Secluded beaches, pine forests and wild flowers complete the amazing landscape surrounding us 😊

12/05/2024

Guiding in the alleys of Arnea, a mountain town in north Halkidiki and its Metropolis church of St. Stephanos.
One of the most beautiful traditional Greek settlements 😊

08/05/2024

Time for a delicious walking Food Tour with our Crystal Symphony small group in Thessaloniki 😋
Tastings in delis, food markets, tsipouro, pastries, coffee & meze lunch, all by small local producers of Greece 🇬🇷
Now Symphony & Serenity ships are just fully refurbished and luxurious with a new owner 😉
Thessaloniki is THE Greek Gastronomy city!

05/05/2024

I had the pleasure to enjoy during Orthodox Easter week on my guided tour delicious traditional fasting dishes in a lunch prepared for us by nuns.
Beansoup, baked aubergines, stuffed tomatoes with rice, potatoe salad, cucumber salad, taramosalata, olives, walnut cake with raisins, red wine 😋
Not only the food and wine were just perfect but being on the foothills of Mt. Olympus, at the modern Osios Ephraim of Syria nunnery is a great experience. Amazingly developed and kept by the hard-working nuns with its great gardens, churches and views.

04/05/2024

A refreshing walk at the lush green Athens ancient Agora, spotting two hidden ruined foundations:
The altar to the unknown god and the bema.
Are they both connected to St. Paul's preaching to the Athenians?
Who knows?

02/05/2024

Back to the Enippeas gorge hiking tour in the morning silence 😊🌲

30/04/2024

In the Steps of St. Paul, ancient Philippi at its best as every spring, full of amazing poppies blooming 😊🇬🇷

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Thessaloníki
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One of the MOST beautiful Greek traditional mountain villages is Nymphaion in Western Macedonia region. Very well known to the Greeks but scarcely visited by our foreign tourists is a perfect destination for the whole year, so don't miss it on a private tour, as I always recommend the whole area to my guests. This is a recent video I took there in is fall colours. There are also various great gastronomy and nature experiences around it to explore with me! #ReThinkingTourism #ReadyToGuide #AllYouWantIsGreece #OpenUpToEurope #GreeceIs #VisitGreece #DiscoverGreece #HistoricallyCurious #VisitEurope #EfiGreeceGuide #NaturallyCurious

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World Tourism Day 2023 celebrated today! Specially filmed within 10 minutes with no editing for the UK tourism professor Dimitrios Buhalis, while my group was praying 😉 The YouTube link of the whole event is to be found here 👇 https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2Q-tpe8s12EKJaTX9Tbtp4iniob2wUDYT_K8jo_2vW31LE8cG9lcDyQh0&v=Vk7defCLU5s&feature=youtu.be #VisitEurope #HistoricallyCurious #EfiGreeceGuide #ReadyToGuide #ReligiousTourism #UNWTO #CulturalHeritage

Out of tonight's breathtaking concert for the 60 years of Maria Farandouri in music, I chose a favourite: ♥️The Ballad Of Mauthausen by Mikis Theodorakis & Iakovos Kampanellis, recorded in 1966. A song about a true love story between two former prisoners at the Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp. An unforgettable tribute concert of the 75-year-old Maria Farandouri at one of our city's important UNESCO monuments, but at the same time a former legendary #DarkTourism site, a jail of both political and criminal prisoners: the Eptapyrgio Citadel #ReThinkingTourism #ReadyToGuide #AllYouWantIsGreece #OpenUpToEurope #GreeceIs #VisitGreece #DiscoverGreece #HistoricallyCurious #VisitEurope #EfiGreeceGuide

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A superfood discovery at our organic food market in Peraia, Thessaloniki: I had read about how good fresh wheat sprout juice is for our health and I wanted to try it 😉 This man grows the ancient Zea bio-wheat variety near our place in Epanomi 🔰 He drives around with the cartons of planted wheatgrass on his small truck, he puts up his stall at the open-air organic markets and when you place an order, he cuts the grass and makes the fresh sprout juice right in front of you 😊 Why? Because benefits of wheatgrass juice do not last longer than 12 hrs after you press it. He also drives around the area to deliver orders of fresh juice to people's houses! Wheatgrass juice in a 30 ml shot is enough for a daily dose. It tastes somehow bitter and smells like freshly cut grass. It is low in calories but high in nutrients, including antioxidants such as glutathione, vitamin C, and vitamin E. Antioxidants fight free radicals in the body, reducing oxidative stress and protecting against health conditions like arthritis, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. It also helps to cleanse the urinary tract and the kidneys and supports a healthy digestive system. Bottoms up, super food! 🍸 #EfiGreeceGuide #GreeceFromHome #NaturallyCurious #DiscoverGreece #GreeceIs

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