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  • Mates enjoy Athenian success
    11 Mar 2010 Fotis Kapetopoulos

    Yorgos Tserexidis and Dean Hewett, who met in St Kilda fifteen years ago, talk to FOTIS KAPETOPOULOS about their successful accommodation venture in the inner city of Athens.

  • Daylesford, the Spa Centre
    30 Nov 2009 Catherine Kladakis

    Daylesford is the Spa Centre of Australia, a fantasy location for pampering, but does it live up to expectations? Catherine Kladakis road tests two day spas and two ‘wellness retreats’ to find out what all the hype is about.

  • Four young voices come on board
    2 Mar 2010

    Recent elections in the Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria have resulted in a record number of second generation Greek Australians sitting on the board of the 113 year institution. Jeana Vithoulkas profiles four of them.

  • Exhibition space. Hellenic Centre.
    London calling
    22 Feb 2010 Mike Sweet (0)

    Once the home of the Swedish Academy for gymnastics, the elegant building that has been home to London's Hellenic Centre since the early nineties, sits proudly on a quiet Marylebone street, just ar

  • Stella Tzobanakis. Crete.
    Local author writes books on Battle of Crete for teens
    22 Feb 2010 Ross Karavis (0)

    A chance meeting with an acquaintance who worked at Melbourne publisher Black Dog Books saw Stella Tzobanakis spend two years

  • Aussie rock
    22 Feb 2010 Nicholas Pappas (0)

    There's a corner of the Mediterranean, nestled close to Turkey, which has a very special relationship with Australia.

  • Space Invader inspired car wraps on the Mini Cooper
    Exploring taste and elegance
    15 Feb 2010 Penni Pappas (0)

     Award winning website The Cool Hunter does many things for the reader — it inspires, it brings out desires, and it celebrates creativity and design in all it's manifestations.

  • Peter Costello the man that was never to be a prime minister
    Niki Savva: An insider’s view
    8 Feb 2010 Fotis Kapetopoulos (0)

    Fotis Kapetopoulos

  • Jona Karsniqi says learning Greek by distance education meant less distractions
    "I learned Greek over the internet"
    1 Feb 2010 Catherine Kladakis (1)

    "Greece really is a unique country and for me and my family will always stay in our hearts forever," says Jona, who is looking forward to taking her first Greek class ever this week.

  • Alphington Grammar Australia's only secular Greek day school
    Greek day schools facing the future
    1 Feb 2010 Alexandros Logothetis (0)

    It has been over 30 years since the first Greek day school started operating in Victoria. Since then, two more schools were added to the state list.

  • UNPOL Australian officer with Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot children
    Aussies on the green line
    1 Feb 2010 Mel Reynolds (0)

    From London pubs to every far-flung corner of the globe, the easy-going Australian disposition has an unfaltering knack of winning hearts, minds and friends in even the most hostile situations.

  • Sam Worthington as Perseus in 'Clash of the Titans'
    Greek myths stage a Hollywood comeback
    25 Jan 2010 (0)

    There were inscriptions written above the entrance of the Temple of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi and the two most famous ones were cautionary words of wisdom: 'Know thyself' and 'Nothing too much

  • Anna Cominos' yiayia Dimitra Zantiotis at the age of 99 years old.
    ...and so the circle continues
    25 Jan 2010 (0)

    Every time a village elder dies a precious volume of the Book of Life closes shut forever.

  • Eddie and Dan Fisher celebrate Australia Day at the Athens Sports Bar
    A bonza day for Aussies in Athens
    25 Jan 2010 (0)

    Eddie and Daniel Fisher Owners of Sports Bar

    Eddie and Daniel Fisher run the recently opened Sports Bar in down town Athens not far from the Acropolis.

  • Lloyd Godson. Adventurer.
    A Life Amphibious
    18 Jan 2010 Mike Sweet (0)

    The island of Ithaca has long been associated with extraordinary voyages. Last September Odysseus’ mythical home became the target destination (from Kefalonia) for Albury-born Lloyd Godson.

  • Greek shop. Asmara.
    The forgotten Greeks of Eritrea
    12 Jan 2010 NickDallas (0)

    On May 24 1993 Eritrea was formally declared independent and welcomed as Africa’s 52nd nation.

  • Cypriot erotica. Nicosia
    Love and lust in antiquity
    23 Dec 2009 Helena Smith (0)

    To tell the story of love is no easy task. To tell it across eleven centuries, through hundreds of objets d’art, is harder still.

  • Life in Australia. Andronicus.
    The first page of history
    22 Dec 2009 (0)

    A genteel young man in high starched collars looks out of an inky photo with an enigmatic Mona Lisa smile across his face.

  • Ross Daly. Cretan lyra.
    An Irishman treasures the music of Crete
    22 Dec 2009 (0)

    Ross Daly is a captain of modal music traditions that pass through millennia and cultures connecting Greece, India, and the Balkans and he is here in March for WOMADelaide.

  • Strigas family. Hopes and dreams.
    An Athenian Christmas tale
    22 Dec 2009 (0)

    One year after the riots in Athens which included the mean-spirited torching of the fifteen metre high Christmas tree in Syntagma Square, families like that of Melbourne born Sotiris Strigas are ho

  • Minister for the Economy, Papakonstantinou, (c), has much on his plate.
    Unreliable Greek statistics are a speculator's dream and an EU nightmare
    21 Dec 2009 (0)

    Speculators are making serious money betting against Greek securities of all forms from derivatives, to bonds, as well as equities. -

  • Kafeneio. Mens sanctuary.
    Kafeneio culture still alive
    15 Dec 2009 Chris Fotinopoulos (0)

    My memories of church are mostly of men huddled beyond its walls while women in moth-balled coats prayed to bearded male icons for miracles in church.

  • Dr Vicky Kotsirilos. Integrative medicine.
    Dr Vicky’s inclusive approach
    8 Dec 2009 Dina Gerolymou (0)

    Dr Vicky Kotsirilos has a common set of question for her patients. “How often do you see the sun” is one of them.

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