An Aegean yacht charter presents slightly more challenging conditions weather wise on your sailing holiday with the infamous Meltemi blowing through the summer season but most navigation is by line of sight and in the main provides for a perfectly relaxing yacht charter. The Ionian Sea lies to the west of the mainland of Greece, [...]
Concrete Homes Stand Up to Earthquakes Built according to good practices, concrete homes are among the safest and most durable types of structures in the world during an earthquake. Homes built with reinforced concrete walls have a record of surviving earthquakes intact, structurally sound and largely unblemished. In reinforced concrete construction, the combination of concrete [...]
Levkas is a popular, lively and windy island. It is the only island linked to mainland Greece, a swing bridge providing access by road. The airport at Preveza is only a 30 minute ride away. Lefkas Town lies a short distance down the canal, at the point where the canal turns to run SE. The [...]
A series of earthquakes on the island of Kefalonia in 1953 totally destroyed the majority of the buildings with only a small area at the northern most point escaping the devastation. As a result, an estimated 100,000 people left the island seeking a new life elsewhere. Following the major earthquake of 1953 property development on [...]
Think about what would you include in your list of must-haves that would make up your ideal vacation destination. Planety of sun, minimal chance of rain, warm pleasant temperatures, perfect sandy beaches, clear warm waters, wide choice hotel of apartment accommodation, plenty of quality restaurants and cafes, both lively and relaxed evening options and within [...]
Ithaka Ithaka is known to every schoolboy as the home island of Odysseus, and even if not all scholars can agree on the exact location of the sites associated with the Odyssey, this island has as much claim as any of receiving the homage due to that epic hero and his world. The men of [...]
