peloponnese hotels

• Greeks Warm As Sunshine

Driving around the Peloponnese didn't seem a particularly adventurous idea until we picked up our rental car from Athens' international airport and I asked whether road signs were in the English alphabet as well as Greek. In fact, we need not have worried. The major roads are excellent, and a modern freeway took us from the outskirts of Athens, across the Corinth Canal (which technically makes the Peloponnese an island) and along two-thirds of our journey. It's the drivers who can be a bit, um, disconcertingly undecided about which side of the centre line they'd like to occupy. The signage on major routes is clear and easy to read, but Pylos -- our chosen destination on the far "finger" of the south western tip -- was apparently too small to be mentioned in English or Greek until we go...

...Methoni has a good choice of hotels and restaurants and I'd recommend it as a vacation...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 25, 2009

• Greece Turned Into Raging Inferno

ZAHARO, Greece -- Uncontrollable fires burned across Greece for a second night Saturday, with villages cut off from help by towering walls of flames that have ravaged the country, killing at least 49 people and raining ashes down onto the Acropolis in central Athens. So many fires breaking out simultaneously in so many parts of the country cannot be a coincidence," [Costas Karamanlis] said in a nationally televised address. "The state will do everything it can to find those responsible and punish them. "I feel deep grief for our dead," Karamanlis said. "I feel deep pain for the mother who perished in the flames with her arms round her children. I feel anger -- the same that you feel."

... in Areopolis, a town in the southern Peloponnese, fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis said. H... from France, were evacuated from local hotels, Greek-French architect Xavier Pathoulas said. "If...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Greece Turned Into Raging Inferno

ZAHARO, Greece -- Uncontrollable fires burned across Greece for a second night Saturday, with villages cut off from help by towering walls of flames that have ravaged the country, killing at least 49 people and raining ashes down onto the Acropolis in central Athens. So many fires breaking out simultaneously in so many parts of the country cannot be a coincidence," [Costas Karamanlis] said in a nationally televised address. "The state will do everything it can to find those responsible and punish them. "I feel deep grief for our dead," Karamanlis said. "I feel deep pain for the mother who perished in the flames with her arms round her children. I feel anger -- the same that you feel."

... in Areopolis, a town in the southern Peloponnese, fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis said. H... from France, were evacuated from local hotels, Greek-French architect Xavier Pathoulas said. "If...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009