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🌀Alexander’s Chair, Coffee Gold, and Beach Butt Drama - Plus Kimolos
The Greek Talk: Like a Greek summer fling—short, sweet, and possibly life-changing 😎
Hi Greek Talkers!
Last week, we featured the island of Samos—and let’s just say... you had feelings.
We got more emails about Samos than any other destination we’ve covered. Some were full of love (“finally, someone talks about Manolates!”), some showed excitement (“I will be there in a month and can’t wait!) and others were... constructive (“that photo? really?”). Point taken. Samos people are passionate—and clearly reach out about their island.
So this week, we’re making it up to you—one more hidden gem, two better photos (we promise), and a reminder that yes, we do read your emails.
For today’s issue: whether you’re reading this from a sunlit Aegean balcony or speed-scrolling in a New York subway, we’ve brewed up another issue hotter than a freddo left in a rental Fiat. This week’s got everything: feuds over dead emperors, scandalous beach butts, and a Greek Australian who roasted the competition—literally.
Let’s dive in. ☕🤿🇬🇷
**Got a story, photo, or memory we should share? Send it our way — we’d love to hear from you: [email protected]
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🇬🇷 WHAT’S NEW IN GREECE
🙋♀️ Dr. Tsani just powered through the patriarchy and straight into the EU’s “Woman in Energy” hall of fame — no solar panels required.
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🌊 Maestro in Blue is back — because nothing says summer in Greece like drama, murder, and slow piano under dramatic island skies.
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More news from Greece
🩴 Butts out, Greece — WWF is done with your beachside ashtrays disguised as sand.
🛣️ Greece is spending €50 million on cultural routes and giving your road trip playlist some competition from actual history
🖼️ Athens art galleries are ghosting Kolonaki for cooler, cheaper 'hoods — even the avant-garde can’t afford a €7 freddo anymore.
⛰️ The Peloponnese is finally on TV — proving that after 3,000 years, all it took to go global was a decent lighting crew and a drone.
📖 Thessaloniki University is launching an Alexander the Great chair — and immediately sparked an academic battle worthy of his empire.
🚢 Greek shipowners are parking their yachts in Scandinavia like it’s Mykonos with better tax breaks — because nothing says “romance” like Viking capital and a Cypriot holding company.
✈️ Direct flights from Chengdu to Athens just launched — pandas and Parthenon are finally on the same itinerary.
⛱️ Greek islands are getting €5.5 billion for a green makeover — because even paradise needs a little Botox and solar panels these days.
🌎️ WHAT’S NEW OUTSIDE OF GREECE
☕️ A Greek Australian just snagged double gold in the world’s top coffee roasting contest — because when Greeks say they love coffee, they mean “win medals or die trying” love.
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More news from outside of Greece
💶 New workshop aims to help Greeks abroad decode local tax laws — finally, a chance to cry about taxes in two languages at once.
🍦 Greek ice cream just landed in Washington, DC — giving Americans a dessert that tastes like summer vacation and emotional baggage.
✈️ easyJet is now flying your spare change to a better cause and supporting UNICEF— because turbulence shouldn't be the only thing making you feel something on board.
🚗 The Greek Australian community roasted Kia harder than a Sunday lamb — turns out messing with our culture is more dangerous than texting Yiayia in all lowercase.
💎 CULTURAL GEMS
Panayiotis Tetsis gets the staring contest he deserves
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To mark the centenary of Hydra-born artist Panayiotis Tetsis, the National Gallery in Athens is throwing a major retrospective: The Obsession of the Gaze (opened April 10, 2025 and until October 31, 2025).
A painter, printmaker, and rebel with a paintbrush, Tetsis turned down the trends of his time in favor of sunlit seascapes, vibrant memory-scapes, and a devotion to color that could rival the Cyclades at golden hour. Come for the brushwork, stay for the artistic legacy that shaped modern Greek art — and possibly your summer mood board.
📆 BEST OF GREEK CALENDAR
🧑🎨 July 4 - October 15, 2025, Bridging Cultures, Pythagorion, Samos
🇬🇷 July 10 - Sept 3, 2025, International Festival of Ancient Olympia, Olympia
🎶 July 28 - August 2, 2025, 9th Rebetiko Festival, Syros
🧳 TRAVEL NEWS
⛱️ Kimolos: Silence, sun and everything in between.
Kimolos is Milos’s cooler, quieter cousin — all the Cycladic charm, none of the tour bus traffic. With dreamy beaches and a postcard-perfect main town, Chorio, it’s your go-to for a low-key, high-style escape.
Kimolos doesn’t put on a show. There are no influencers here and no beach clubs with velvet ropes.
Wander Chorio’s quiet alleys, where cats lounge in doorways and time feels optional. Float alone at Mavrospilia, where the sunsets look like they were painted by someone in love. Walk inland to Skiadi, the giant wind-carved rock that seems to defy gravity and logic. You won’t need a plan here. Just curiosity, good shoes, and maybe a second glass of local wine in the mountaintop village of Manolakas.
Here are a few hidden gems:
🌊 Polyaigos Island. Just across the water from Kimolos, Polyaigos is the largest uninhabited island in the Aegean—pure, wild, and so very empty. Its waters are impossibly clear and its beaches untouched.
⛱️ Rema & Goupa. These twin fishing coves are home to sirmata, rainbow-colored boat garages carved right into the shoreline cliffs.
🎥 Cine Kalisperitis: A roaming open-air cinema that turns the natural beauty of Kimolos and the surrounding Aegean into a living, breathing movie set.
Kimolos Agios Georgios beach, Greeka.com
And a bit more Samos …
✍️ The Pythagoras cave: High on Samos’s Mount Kerkis, Pythagoras once lived and taught in a pair of caves — solving triangles by day, dodging tyrants by night. Part math genius, part mystical cult leader, he turned this volcanic rock into the world’s most dramatic classroom.
Tsamadou beach - Greeka.com
Lemonakia beach, visitourgreece.com
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🆕 OBSESSIONS
✨ TRENDING GREEK SOCIAL MEDIA
That friend that always finds a steal deal on everything!! by Fanis Labropoulos
@fanislabropoulos Φίλοι και ευκαιρίες !!! 😈🧤🤬 #BigaNisfa #TaKounavia
🧑🍳 RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Greek ladenia from Kimolos
Kimolos’s ladenia is basically Greece’s answer to pizza — but with fewer toppings, more olive oil, and zero regrets.
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💡 INSPIRATION
If an event conforms with your nature, you call it good; if it offends your nature, you call it bad. But to another, it may be the opposite.
😎 GREEK FYI
🇬🇷 The Vikos Gorge in Epirus is listed by Guinness World Records as the deepest gorge in the world relative to its width. It cuts through the Pindus mountains with nearly vertical walls.
😂 MYTHIC MEMES
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📌 RECS
When you stop by Athens, why don’t you:
✅ Watch the changing of the guard at Syntagma – The shoes alone weigh 3 kg!
✅ Visit the Museum of Cycladic Art in the center of Athens – Gorgeous and under-visited.
That’s it for now. Catch you next week for more news, drama and deep dives. Don’t forget to share The Greek Talk with a friend, a cousin, or that one uncle who still thinks Pythagoras invented baklava. 🧿 Stay Greek. [email protected]
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