With easy-to-read texts and clear maps, this guide to mainland Greece provides an insight into the destination's character, culture and people. Hints and tips are given on local customs, and basic vocabulary and helpful phrases are included.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful and compact,
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This review is from: Michelin NEOS Guide Mainland Greece, 1e (Paperback)
Begins with 50 pages on "Setting the Scene" discussing history, flora, fauna, Greece today, art and architecture and Greek mythology. Another 40 pages on "Meeting the People" discuss daily life, social etiquette, religion, music, language and other topics. Twenty more pages on travel practicalities precede coverage of the mainland (Athens, Attica, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia and Trace) as well as close in islands (The Ionian Islands).Each section has quick info on the essential things not to miss as well as important pointers to remember. The travel information is knowledgeable and aimed at the serious traveler. Goodly number of photos and maps. The pocket size, and thin paper make this something you could consider taking with you on your trip. It uses the Michelin system of rating sights with one, two or three stars and provides cross references to the Michelin maps especially to number 980.
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weak on the smaller towns, unreliable for hotels,
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This review is from: Michelin NEOS Guide Mainland Greece, 1e (Paperback)
I have some prejudice against this guide because of its high recommendation of a spectacularly horrible hotel in Corfu (room like a cell, property overrun with chain-smoking German package tourists). It has the usual Michelin virtues of good maps with star-rating prioritization of sites. Not as much information about smaller towns as Lonely Planet and not as many maps. A good but not a great guide.
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With a surface area of nearly 132 000km, Greece is a small country, a little over half the size of the United Kingdom. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archaeology enthusiasts, recent hotel, harbour police, two side aisles, modem town, cash dispenser, tourist police, town hall square, funerary steles, double colonnade Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, National Bank, Alexander the Great, Olympic Airways, Ancient Greece, Aegean Sea, Byzantine Empire, Province of the Peloponnese, Ali Pasha, Gulf of Corinth, Middle Ages, Trojan War, Orthodox Church, Province of Macedonia, Saronic Gulf, Second World War, Byzantine Museum, Monastery of Agios, Sacred Way, Virgin Mary, Bronze Age, Classical Period, Corfu Town, Navarino Bay New!
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With a surface area of nearly 132 000km, Greece is a small country, a little over half the size of the United Kingdom. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
archaeology enthusiasts, recent hotel, harbour police, two side aisles, modem town, cash dispenser, tourist police, town hall square, funerary steles, double colonnade Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ionian Islands, Asia Minor, National Bank, Alexander the Great, Olympic Airways, Ancient Greece, Aegean Sea, Byzantine Empire, Province of the Peloponnese, Ali Pasha, Gulf of Corinth, Middle Ages, Trojan War, Orthodox Church, Province of Macedonia, Saronic Gulf, Second World War, Byzantine Museum, Monastery of Agios, Sacred Way, Virgin Mary, Bronze Age, Classical Period, Corfu Town, Navarino Bay New!
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- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on page 78, and page 452
- The Mask of Apollo: A Novel by Mary Renault on page 112
- Christmas Eve by Charnan Simon on page 447
- Data from the Decade of the Sixties by Thanassis Valtinos on page 112
- The Coming of the Greeks by Robert Drews on page 112
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