Author: Celeste

In the last weekend of January 2017, Travel Bloggers Greece, celebrated its second anniversary. For that occasion, a trip to Pelion was organized by Spyrou Philoxenia, the destination expert for the area. With a touring bus from Les Hirondelles, the best Transportation Supplier, we travelled from Athens to Tsagarada. We were hosted by Hotel Aglaida Apartments. With the touring bus at our availability, we had a chance to visit most of Pelion’s attractions in only two days. In this post, you will find everything that you need to know about Travel to Pelion, Greece. Travel to Pelion in Greece Pelion is the peninsula region of…

Are you looking for baby swimming classes in Athens? If you are interested in baby yoga, music classes, baby swimming or pregnancy swimming, read on and found our review of Ydria. My experience with Ydria started when I was looking for baby swimming classes. Greece is a country with lots of beautiful beaches and sea. The climate in Greece allows us to enjoy sea swimming most of the year. Spending much time on a boat and travelling often to the Netherlands (another country with lots of water!) I wanted my babies to learn how to swim as fast as possible.…

In January of 2017, I visited Hotel Aglaída Apartments in Tsagarada in Pelion. I spent a wonderful weekend here to celebrate the two year anniversary of Travel Bloggers Greece, the first professional blogger network organization in Greece. It was a weekend full of hospitality, gastronomy, nature and fun. The destination specialist Spyrou Philoxenia sponsored and organized the trip and represents the hospitable Aglaída Apartments. It was here that we stayed for the weekend and I reviewed the hotel For Family Goes Out. I found this basic but charming accommodation hospitable, value for money ánd family friendly, and therefore it deserves…

After some very successful weekend events last year, the popular Saturday LUNCH & PLAY events return to the St. George Lycabettus Lifestyle Boutique Hotel with art workshops. The Athens Art Workshops started earlier this month and offer children aged 5-12 years old interactive educational programs and artistically creative workshops allowing kids to cultivate their skills, imagination, and creativity. We have discussed it often before on this blog, the benefits of introducing kids to art are numerous. Creative arts benefits in early childhood education are expansive, ranging from the physical to the emotional to the mental. But how can the creative arts develop…

In April 2015, I traveled to Montanema Handmade Village with kids. It was an amazing stay in luxury accommodation surrounded by a pine tree forest. This mountain hotel in Greece offers family experiences in the broadest sense of the word in a traditional setting but with 5-star luxuries. It represents the green hand-picked accommodations that this blog loves to promote. Where is Montanema Handmade Village? The houses of Montanema Handmade Village lies in the dense forest and high in the mountains, located in the gorge of the Agrafa Mountains. These mountains are part of the Pindos Mountains in Central Greece. The nearest…

The iconic 5-star St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel is a classy hotel with old-world charm and considered a landmark in Athens. The hotel is well known for its sky bar, its Art gallery, its events and pool club. Read on and find our review of this family hotel in Athens! St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel It is located in the heart of the Greek capital in the chic Kolonaki area and nestled against the green slopes of the Lycabettus Hill. The hotel offers a breath-taking panoramic view over Athens, the Acropolis and the Saronic Gulf. At night, it is also…

In November 2016 my family had the chance to experience a stay-cation at the 5 star St. George Lycabettus Boutique hotel. St. George is a classy family-run hotel and a landmark in my hometown Athens well known for its hospitality. It is located in the Kolonaki area nestled against the green slopes of the Lycabettus Hill. The hotel offers a breath-taking panoramic view over Athens, the Acropolis and the Saronic Gulf and is located near some of Athens’ best shops, galleries and museums. St. George Lycabettus Boutique hotel is famous for its award-winning restaurants ‘Le Grand Balcon’ and ‘La Suite…

I was recently discovered the handmade soap bars from APTIPHYSI, a small production company using only organic ingredients and Greek olive oil. This Greek Olive Oil Soap can be used for the skin but also in our home and on our clothes, they are handmade and manufactured sustainably. I found the following information with the soap: These are 100% premium quality, natural, handmade Greek Olive Oil Soap that has been produced with love for humans and respect to nature and its sustainable resources. A virgin olive oil recipe enriched with shea butter and other selected oils, dried botanicals and clays…

Varnavas forest was the destination of a recent Sunday morning September outing. My friend Sofia invited me and the girls to drink a coffee near Kapandriti, her home village. Kapandriti is situated in the green corner of North Attika, 37 km from Syntagma square. Sofia a ‘small paradise’, a picnic place where the children would be able to play in the forest and we would be able to watch them and relax. I could not agree more with my friend. The place that we found is indeed a small paradise. It is located in the Varnavas forest and called Kioski. It…

Tips for airport survival, based on my personal experience of traveling by airplane with the kids If you are traveling by plane this summer, you cannot have missed the chaos at several European (and international destinations). Like the tens of thousands of pieces of luggage stranded across European airports, flight cancellations have piled up everywhere. Several airlines made plans to mitigate summer travel chaos, including schedule changes and cancellations. The kids and I flew from Amsterdam to Athens during the busiest time of the summer. Our initial flight (from Greece to The Netherlands had already been re-directed from Amsterdam airport to Eindhoven airport. We did not lose our…

One of my favorite summer one-day excursions in Athens is a visit to Cape Sounio. Whenever I want to escape from city life, feel the energy of the earth and calm down, Sounio and the temple of Poseidon is the place to go. It is also the place for the best sunsets in Greece. Cape Sounio is a must see for everyone visiting Athens. How to get there? Cape Sounio is located at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula overlooking the Aegean Sea. There are several routes to reach Cape Sounio from Athens center (69 km from Athens) but…

I recently visited the Mineralogy and Petrology Museum in Athens and I am very enthusiastic. I have always been interested in geology and my children and I are fascinated by vulcanos and stones. What better way to teach our children about the environment, the earth and the planet that we live on by showing them a geology collection? The Mineralogy and Petrology Museum in Athens is part of the Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironmental studies that is part of the School of Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It is the oldest and biggest faculty in the…