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Greek crisis: Good for tourists?

British tourists are booking cheap holidays in Greece as the crisis there continues to cast doubt over the eurozone.

Why Greece really wishes you were there

'Wish you were here" isn't a slogan that can be spotted amid the racks of postcards spilling into the streets in Athens' tourist traps, but the sentiment is visible everywhere. It's in the eyes of every bored-looking hotel receptionist and overstocked ice-cream vendor.

Trip to Greece offers new perspective on yogurts

Nonfat plain Greek yogurt packs twice as much protein as regular plain nonfat yogurt

Greece's best luxury hotels and villas

Despite current woes, Greece retains the glamour and grandeur that has lured aristocrats and tycoons for decades. Robin Gauldie charts a realm of serene sea views, opulent mansions, quirky villas, privacy, good food and fine wine.

Unspoilt Greece

There are still plenty of unspoilt spots in Greece – you just have to look a little harder, says a longtime contributor to the Rough Guide to Greece, first published in 1982 In 1981, when the first Rough Guide was being researched, I was teaching English in Athens and Greece was a very different country. Three decades have seen Greece metamorphose from unsophisticated backwater through full EU ...

Obama's new friend

Obama will relish Francois Hollande's anti-austerity support

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In Greek Election Campaign, Anger Trumps Civility

This weekend, Greece holds what is expected to be the most fractious parliamentary elections in decades. Voters are so angry they're attacking lawmakers with eggs, yogurt and obscenities. Greeks blame politicians for causing the debt crisis by stealing public money and financial mismanagement.

On elections, absent voters, Samaras, Tsipras and Chrysi Avgi

Election swing leaves Greece teetering? Certainly. And the teetering will last a long time because the politicians promised voters the impossible during the campaign, but they won't be able to deliver!&?nbsp;

Cheapflights.co.uk Checks Travellers out of the Rain and Into Hours of Sunshine

LONDON-- - The UK forecast holds the equivalent of a month's rain in just one day, winds of up to 50mph and the coldest May for 100 years. A very different, drizzly picture to the warm and sunny spring ...