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In my previous post we went to Monastiraki and from there we walked to the Ancient Agora, where we visited the Stoa of Attalus, the Museum and the Temple of Hephaestus. Then we strolled in the Youssourum (flea market). Starting again from Monastiraki, after passing the Mosque and Hadrian’s Library, this time we shall turn [...]
View from Lycabettus It’s been three months since we came back to Athens as our house in Assini does not have any central heating and just the fireplace was not enough to keep the house warm during the winter. We miss Assini and now that the weather is getting warmer, we’ve decided to go back [...]
We visted the First Cemetery of Athens last Monday, on the 25th March, which is a public holiday. Although living in Athens for so many years we had never visited it before although we knew that it has some of the most beautiful nineteenth and twentieth century Greek sculpture. The cemetery is under the Municipality [...]
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A quick post to announce the winner of the two giveaways: 1. Abhilasha Singh 2. Rosa 3. Maroulla Iossif 4. Clara 5. Lisa H. 6. Helen Dialoumopoulos Vokolou 7. Priya 8. Antigoni 9. Evelina The lucky winner of My Cookbook and My Memories Suit, selected by Random.org is: No. 9 Evelina. Congratulations [...]
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To kick off the festive season and to compensate you for not blogging and visiting your blogs, today I have two giveaways. The first one is a crafty giveaway for all of you who love creating scrapbooks. When Liz from My Memories Scrapbook Software contacted me to try out their program, almost two months ago, I was really [...]
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My Cookbook Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, Flavours of Cyprus, Kopiaste, has finally been translated into Greek and published on Smashwords. The Greek title of my cookbook is «Kopiaste stin Kouzina mou», which means Welcome to my Kitchen. If you can read Greek or have Greek friends who would like to win it, please leave your comment on [...]
Last week I got an invitation by e-mail for a visit to the Storages and Distribution Centre of AB Vassilopoulos, one of the biggest Greek food chains, in Oinophyta, which is an industrial area, 57 km to the North of Athens. Our rendezvous point was at Syntagma Square in the centre of Athens. A bus [...]
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We were informed a few hours ago that my mother-in-law Antonia Liacopoulou, passed away peacefully today 28th January 2012. She was born on 8th October 1913 and gave birth to four daughters and he youngest child was my husband, She had 10 grand children and seven great grand children. Although over ninety eight years old, [...]
MyCityCuisine is a wiki project. Its goal is to help travelers discover the local food from around the world. Food has always been an integral part of the local culture so, naturally, tasting local food is often high on most traveler’s to-do lists. However, until now, there was no single comprehensive source providing this [...]
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