Aegina

I must admit, it is a few years since I went to Aegina - but there are a few things about our holiday there that are hugely memorable - and for that reason, a review is very worthwhile. My daughter was about five years old when we went to Aegina. I had never heard of the place and wanted to visit the Acropolis in Athens. My mum and nan had been there many years earlier and I had felt hugely envious as a child when I looked at their photos of them in front of the Parthenon. Aegina emerged as an ideal location - having all the charms of a Greek Island with the very near proximity of the interesting but polluted Athens. A Tiny Bit About ...  Read the complete review

Aegina is one of the islands of the Saronic Gulf and possibly the one Greek island which is closest to Athens (apart from rather industrial/military Salamis). It takes only about an hour from Piraeus to get here (half of the time if taking a hydrofoil) and thus it`s a prime weekend and holiday spot for Athenians, as well as being a package tour destination. People who spend most of their holidays on the mainland often go to Aegina (like other Saronic Gulf islands) to experience `a Greek island`. I stopped here couple of times almost 20 years ago while sailing in the area and revisited this year, mostly in order to visit the islands main archelogical ...  Read the complete review

A question to begin: why is it that the Greeks, inventors of theatre, philosophy, medicine and builders of monuments which still stand three thousand years later, are still unable in the twenty first century of inventing a toilet which is capable of flushing away anything other then bodily waste? Not the most pleasant way to begin an opinion perhaps but as a first time visitor to Greece one that struck me all the same. Some toilet graffiti put it more succinctly: “Warning, Greek loos are dodgy, do not put anything down you haven’t consumed first!”. Failure to comply this regulation can be unpleasant, apparently something akin to Tony’s recent ...  Read the complete review