Authentic Greece expert

Thirty years of Greece.

And after all those years, we’ve seen an incredible amount of this country. Enough to know our way around pretty well – and thankfully, nowhere near enough to have seen it all.

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Because we’re still discovering.

A little road we’ve never taken. A small hotel we simply have to go and look at. A village we were only supposed to drive through. A story we haven’t heard before. That one wonderful place you find long before the influencers do.

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That’s Authentic Greece. The Greece we truly know.

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🧿 Group Travel

We organise our own small-group tours, as well as tailor-made group travel for companies, clubs, groups of friends and travel organisations.

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Classical Greece? Across the Peloponnese? Golf in Messinia? Wine & Food? Or perhaps a little Mamma Mia? From 5 to 100 people. Sometimes there’s already a complete plan on the table.

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Sometimes it simply starts with: “We’d like to take a group to Greece. Any ideas?”

Oh yes.

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🧿 Zakynthos, Kefalonia & Ithaca

Zakynthos is where it all began. Kefalonia and Ithaca followed a year later.

Three islands so close together, and yet so different.

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Of course there are the famous beaches and those places everyone wants to see. But we still prefer finding that little village, a quiet bay, or simply taking a road because we want to know what’s around the next corner.

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🧿 Athens, Nafplio & the Peloponnese

Athens never gets boring.

The Acropolis? Of course. But please don’t leave straight afterwards. Go to the market. Wander into another neighbourhood. Find a terrace, stay a little longer than planned – and before you know it, it’s time to eat again.

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And Nafplio? We love going there via Nemea.

A wine region on the way to one of our favourite towns. Hard to improve on that.

Mycenae and Epidaurus belong on the itinerary. But sometimes the unexpected turn along the way turns out to be every bit as memorable.

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🧿 Messinia

And then there’s Messinia.

We might be just a tiny bit biased here.

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Messinia has become our home in Greece. You may know Costa Navarino for its beautiful resorts and golf courses. We fell in love with everything around it.

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Kalamata and Ancient Messene. Navarino Bay. Pylos, Gialova, Methoni, Koroni and Finikounda. The sea, the mountains and olive trees everywhere.

Lots and lots of olive trees.

No mass tourism. Life here is still simply Greek life.

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But things are happening too. A lot of them. We follow it all through NavarinoLifeStyle, our project dedicated to what’s happening in Messinia right now.

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🧿 Individual Travel

A proper road trip around the Peloponnese?

Absolutely.

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We can arrange the route, hotels, rental car and the places worth stopping for. Not because every minute of every day needs to be planned.

Quite the opposite.

There should always be time to take that unexpected turn.

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Or perhaps island hopping between Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Ithaca. Athens combined with Nafplio. A few days here, a little longer there.

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And sometimes?

Just a week in one place.

Nothing wrong with that either.

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🧿 Greece 365

Everyone knows Greece in July and August.

But there are ten other months.

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In spring, Zakynthos is covered in flowers. In October, you can still sit outside for dinner in the Peloponnese. Then the olive harvest begins in Messinia, and everywhere you go, the new season’s olive oil is being pressed.

And then Christmas arrives.

Athens goes all out. Lights everywhere, enormous Christmas trees in the squares, music, busy terraces. A little Christmas Wonderland – only with Greek sunshine.

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And winter in Greece?

While Northern Europe is getting out the hats and gloves, you could be sitting outside in the village square drinking a freddo espresso. Really.

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🧿 Wine & Food

We all have to eat and drink anyway.

So we might as well do it properly.

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Wine has been part of Greek life for thousands of years. They didn’t have a god of wine for nothing.

Dionysus knew what he was doing.

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Agiorgitiko, Moschofilero, Assyrtiko, Malagousia... Greece has wonderful native grape varieties, and some truly fantastic wines are being made here today.

And then there’s the olive oil. Old recipes. Local produce. And the stories behind them.

Exactly the kind of stories we love getting into.

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🧿 And you?

Feeling a little tempted?

Perhaps Greece is already beginning to sound like a very good idea.

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🧿 Oh yes… one more thing

Authentic Greece is part of Holland Italia Events, a Dutch tour operator affiliated with VZR Garant.

So although Greece is our home territory, you book with the security and financial protection of a Dutch travel organisation.

Nice to know.

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