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Hi Greek Talkers!
Welcome back to The Greek Talk - where islands are quiet, the headlines are loud and the typos are under review 🧿
Special thanks to eagle-eyed reader Eirini, who hails from Drama, for kindly reminding us that spellchecking is a thing (oops).
This week, Greece launches a sleek new personal ID (keep on dreaming for a sleek Greek bureaucracy), the Greek diaspora goes shopping for real estate and divers in Alonissos discover that the Aegean is also a floating recycling bin.
Let’s dive in. ☕🤿🇬🇷
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🇬🇷 WHAT’S NEW IN GREECE
🆔 Bureaucracy with a facelift - new Greek ID number dropping June 3, replacing AFM, AMKA, etc
to vima
🏝️ Greece tackles over-tourism and tries to save Santorini, one cruise ship at a time
travel and tour world
More news from Greece
🚬 Trying to quit smoking in Greece? There’s a hotline for that
🧠 Calling all Greeks abroad - your mother said you have had enough “experience” - New national strategy aims to lure Greeks back home
☀️ Europe’s drying up - Greece included
🌊 Divers find trash, not treasure - Alonissos’ seabed is giving serious “we need to talk now” energy
🍾 Greece ranked #1 for affordable Euro-luxury - champagne-style vacay on a frappe budget :-)
🌎️ WHAT’S NEW OUTSIDE OF GREECE
🏠️ Greeks abroad rediscover the joys of homeownership in Greece - plus the thrill of paperwork in 2 time zones
ekathimerini
🇬🇷 New Greek club opens in the Egyptian city of Dahab - locals prepare for sudden spike in loud toasts and unsolicited dance circles
ekathimerini
💎 CULTURAL GEMS
🖼️ No need to time travel - Chania just hung 150 years of Greek art on its walls for your convenience. The new exhibit, Journeys in Art, runs through November 2, features 99 works spanning Greek artistic evolution.
to vima
📆 BEST OF GREEK CALENDAR
🍸️ 13-14 June, 2025, Athens Cocktail festival at Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens
🎤 27-29 June, 2025, “Near & Far” Kastellorizo International Music Festival, Kastellorizo
🖼️ June 5 - November 2, 2025, Cycladic Blue by Marlene Thomas, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
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🧳 TRAVEL NEWS
⛱️ Skip the crowds, skip the drama - your dream Greek island doesn’t have to come with a DJ.
From hidden gems to barely-on-the-map havens, this list of 16 quiet Greek islands is your escape plan from tourist chaos - think sun, sea, and maybe goats 🐐
The Times
🆕 OBSESSIONS
Athens voice
🥧 Ariston: Best tiropita/spanakopita/whatever-pita in Athens (Syntagma) since 1910
🫒 Zakynthos’ essential restaurants
🌟 GREEK STARS
proto thema
✨ TRENDING GREEK SOCIAL MEDIA
Typical Greek periptero
@ariannapapalexopoulos best 100 💶 i ever spent! 🇬🇷😉 #greece #fyp #greek #greekamerican #americangirl #greeksummer #greekman #greekhumor #greekjokes #panathinaiko... See more
🧑🍳 RECIPE OF THE WEEK
Speaking of the quiet island of Andros, here is its most famous recipe, Greek omelet froutalia
Akis Petretzikis
💡 INSPIRATION
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
😎 GREEK FYI
🎭️ Athens, the place where theater and the art of acting were born, has the most theatrical stages (148 in total) in the world, more than New York’s Broadway and London’s West End.
😂 MYTHIC MEMES
📌 RECS
Speaking of quiet islands…
✅ Catch a ferry to Koufonisia and do absolutely nothing - except swim, nap, eat, repeat
✅ Climb the steps to the Castle of Astypalea and watch the Aegean glitter beneath you
That’s it for now. If you book one of those quiet islands and manage to resist telling everyone about it - we don’t believe you. Bonus points if you visit them before that new ID arrives. [email protected]
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