Margot, Marley and Shehr are 3 good friends from the Netherlands visited Kos island for their summer vacation in June 2017. They stayed in Kos for about a week and they basically seriously wanted to live the experience of lying on the beach, partying and also to explore the basic touristic/historic attractions on the island. To cover the 3rd part, they chose BeenThere.eu’s tours (more…)
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“Mountza”: the Greek gesture you need to know!
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“Mountza” is the gesture most used n Greece. Is something like the international middle finger but way softer. Is very easy to do it, you just open wide your hand’s fingers and extend it to someone’s face. You don’t need to touch to others face but the direction must be it. Greeks use it to express 3 different feelings: (more…)
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Anna January 2017
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Anna is a very friendly Russian woman from San Francisco, California visited Thessaloniki for some personal reasons. She had the privilege to do some day tours, city tours and got to know Northern Greece with us! We had some wonderful walks in the city center and we explored the most interesting suburbs. We also visited mount Olympus, where we met snow of course, because it was January! We were about to visit the Meteora rocks also but the snowstorms of the last days made Anna rescedule it for nextyear! 😀 (more…)
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Donalt Burness November 2016
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Donald is a former University Professor who started writting poems after his retirement. He visited Greece to study the language, learn the culture and travel more. His poems are all about his wife and his journeys around the world, so when he visited Greece he got inspired and wrote some more poems. With Dan I made 2 tours and that is because I met him only some days before he leaves Greece to continue his journey. We visited the ancient city of Dion and the Mt. Hortiatis together. (more…)
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Anssi & Anne October 2016
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Annsi and Anne are a young couple and friends from Finnland. They visited Thessaloniki, Greece for their vacation and during their stay we lived a BeenThere experience together in Mt.Hortiatis hiking a bit, collecting chestnuts in the forest, boil them in a fire and making a picnic into nature. This mountain is aproximately 20 Km away from the city center and in October is foul of chestnuts. So we bought some sausages, feta cheese, tomatoes, bread, we took a pot and we started our tour. (more…)
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Studying abroad: An Erasmus Student from Thessaloniki!!
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Are you an Erasmus Student in Thessaloniki or an Erasmus Student from Thessaloniki? Then I am sure this article will ring a bell in your heart! www.BeenThere.eu is partialy a product of an Erasmus student from Thessaloniki in Aalen, Germany. The multicultural experience lived there was like a small spark that created a big fire. (more…)
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Glyka & Fotis September 2016
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Glyka & Fotis are a young couple from Greece that live in Copenhagen, Denmark for many years and often come back for vacations and to see their families. So, during their last visit in Thessaloniki contacted BeenThere.eu to arrange a half-day tour. When l met them, they asked me for a tour that will include “a beach with crystal clear water”, “not far away from Thessaloniki” and “a healthy Greek snack”. Hmmm… lt took me a couple of minutes to think about it and then I had the perfect suggestion for them 🙂 (more…)
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Are you a pasta lover and vegan, visiting Greece? This is for you!
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Hello foodies! One of the most delicious and popular food worldwide is pasta! As a vegan, I love trying different kinds of sauce, in order to enhance the already great taste of pasta with plant based extracts, veggies and nuts! One tip that always works for a better taste is: using herbs and olive oil! Greece is the paradise of herbs and olive oil! (more…)
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A Travelogue for the back side of Mt. Olympus.
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There is a route of about 70Km at the back side of Mt. Olympus that makes you wanna live there for ever! The food is awesome cause most of the people there are breeders or farmers and their products are always fresh. The road is between Mt.Olympus and the Pierian Mountains, which means that the view is always going to be green and thick mountains of pines and beeches. (more…)
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If you ever visit Thessaloniki, put Mt. Hortiatis on your visit list!
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If it’s a cold and sunny day, everybody would dream a day playing with the snow or a hot drink by the fireplace. You can do both in mount Hortiatis! Is less than 60′ driving from down town, so when you visit Thessaloniki for 3 or 4 days and you want to spent the morning into the nature I would definitely suggest you to schedule it. (more…)