• The trip also included a three-day cruise of the Greek Islands (highly overrated), plus Rhodes, and Ephesus (not overrated).

    FORBES: Greece Ain't So Bad

  • Matt Maytum, news editor at Total Film magazine, suggested Before Midnight, set in the Greek islands and nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

    BBC: Does an Oscar really win tourism?

  • What he wants us to know is that the diet of Crete, the largest of the Greek islands, is the most healthful in the Mediterranean.

    NPR: Crete: Ancient Diet with Modern Message

  • It gathered information from enemy positions using covert methods and operated in North Africa, the Greek Islands, Norway, Sicily, Italy, Corsica and North West Europe.

    BBC: Devon marines renamed after Bond author's wartime group

  • Frank Schaeffler, a German member of parliament in the Free Democratic Party, has previously advocated the sale of uninhabited Greek islands to fund creditor repayments.

    CNN: Euro crisis opens old wounds for Greece, Germany

  • Licenses to carry passengers to the Greek islands are granted by the shipping ministry, and the bureaucrats often grant these monopolies to specifically named ships, whose owners are under no obligation to improve services.

    FORBES: Athens At The Crossroads

  • Another is Petter Stordalen, the owner of Nordic Choice Hotels, the largest hotel chain in Norway, who chartered it in August to sail around the Greek islands with his wife, the model-cum-physician Gunhild.

    FORBES: The Ultimate Billionaire Toy: The Maltese Falcon

  • Europe is dotted with spots Greek islands next to Turkey, German and Italian enclaves in Switzerland, a Spanish one in France which geography might allocate to other owners but law and common sense do not.

    ECONOMIST: Gibraltar

  • It has frayed recently over Turkey's reluctance to stop large numbers of Central Asian and Middle Eastern migrants crossing from its Aegean coast to the Greek islands despite the EU's Frontex team of helicopters and patrol boats keeping watch on illegal immigration.

    ECONOMIST: Greece's budget crisis

  • Some Greek islands have been overbuilt by Athenians taking advantage of corrupt planning laws, but all over the mainland there are villages in beautiful settings that are decaying for want of anybody ready to refit handsome stone houses and attract year-round visitors.

    ECONOMIST: The Greek crisis

  • In June he suffered what should have been a devastating blow when much of his campaign staff resigned en masse, allegedly in protest at his decision to cruise the Greek islands with his third wife, Callista, instead of raising money and pressing the flesh in Iowa and New Hampshire.

    ECONOMIST: After Mr Dopey and Mr (too) Friendly, Mr Grumpy gets his turn

  • The omnipresent blue of Greek churches is so memorable that there are even a few Orthodox churches in my neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, that have mimicked the form, giving me and everyone else who passes or steps inside a slight tinge of longing for the Greek islands of their memories.

    FORBES: Daily Travel Flashback: Perissa, Santorini

  • They were open to all free-born, Greek-speaking males, attracting athletes not just from the Greek mainland and surrounding islands, but also from the most far-flung Greek colonies, everywhere from Iberia (Spain) in the west to the Black Sea in the east.

    CNN: The Ancient Olympics

  • Despite a telephone call from Madeleine Albright, America's secretary of state, to offer her services, no progress was made on the nagging issue of how to handle the Greek-Turkish quarrels over ownership of uninhabited islands close to the Turkish coast and oil rights under the Aegean.

    ECONOMIST: Greece and Turkey

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