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Greece – the Road Less Travelled Greece – The Road Less Travelled Travel Passports are spelt correctly and match the names on your Please ensure your 10-year British Passport is not passport. Your flight ticket is non-transferable and out of date and is valid for a full six months non-refundable. No refund can be given for non- beyond the duration of your visit. The name on used portions. your passport must match the name on your flight ticket/E-ticket otherwise you may be refused boarding at the airport. Baggage Allowance We advise that you stick to the baggage Visas allowances advised. If your luggage is found to be Visas are not required for Greece for citizens of heavier than the airlines specified baggage Great Britain and Northern Ireland. For all other allowance the charges at the airport will be hefty. passport holders please check the visa requirements with the appropriate embassy. With Easyjet your ticket includes one hold bag of up to 23kg plus one cabin bag no bigger than 56 x Greek Consulate: 1A Holland Park, London W11 45 x 25cm including handles, pockets and wheels. 3TP. Tel: 020 7221 6467 With British Airways your ticket includes one hold bag of up to 23kg plus one cabin bag no bigger than 56 x 45 x 25cm including handles, pockets Tickets and wheels. British Airways At the bottom of your detailed itinerary there will For more information please visit be a booking reference number. At check-in you www.britishairways.com and www.easyjet.com will need to quote/show this and you will be issued with your boarding pass. Online check-in is Labels not available for this booking. Please use the luggage labels provided. It is useful For more information please visit: to have your home address located inside your www.britishairways.com suitcase should the label go astray. Easyjet Departure Tax Included with this documentation is an e-ticket for UK Flight Taxes are included in the price of your your outbound journey, which shows the holiday. reference number for your flight. EasyJet have now replaced their airport check-in desks with Transfers EasyJet Baggage Drop desks. Therefore, you must On arrival at Thessaloniki Airport please collect check-in online and print out your boarding your luggage and exit the luggage area and passes before travelling. Checking in online also proceed until you are in the arrival’s hall. You will provides the opportunity for you to pre-book find your Tour Manager situated in arrivals, seats, if you wish, at an additional cost. holding a Travel Editions sign. The transfer to your hotel will take approx. 30 minutes. Online check-in is available 30 days prior to travel using the reference number provided. Please see Special Requests the enclosed e-ticket for more information or visit; If you haven’t already done so, please notify www.easyjet.com Travel Editions of any special requests as soon as possible to allow enough time to make the Please check that the details on your necessary arrangements. documentation are accurate and that all names Accommodation City Hotel, Thessaloniki This modern 4* hotel is situated in the heart of Food Thessaloniki, close to the many lively cafes and The standard of food in Greece is excellent and bars of Tsimiski Street and Aristotelous square. offers a remarkable variety of freshly prepared Hotel facilities include a restaurant and bar, gym and very tasty dishes, many of which use locally and Wellness centre. Each of the comfortable grown products and locally produced olive oil. rooms feature air-conditioning, TV, tea and coffee facilities, safe, hairdryer and free wifi. When eating out the Greeks nearly always eat ‘Mezedes’ style. This means ordering several For more information visit the hotel website; dishes, starters and/or main plates, whatever https://www.cityhotel.gr/ takes your fancy, to put in the middle of the table for all to share. It’s a very sociable way to eat and a great way of tasting lots of different dishes! Hotel Kastaki, Meteora Don’t be shy in the amount you order, or if you The 3-star Hotel Kastraki is located at the foot of only find yourselves ordering starters – any the enchanting Meteora rocks in the beautiful combination is acceptable. village of Kastraki and only 2 km from the city of Kalambaka. It enjoys unique views of the imposing When ordering fish in Greece you will find the rocks of Meteora. Each of the comfortable and price on the menu relates to a cost per kilo. Don’t stylish rooms have private balconies, a bath or be put off by this. You are expected to go into the shower, complimentary toiletries, air-conditioning, kitchen, choose the fish you want and then it will TV, radio, fridge, safe and hairdryer. be weighed in front of you so you know what you will pay. For more information visit the hotel website; http://www.hotelkastraki.gr/ Grand Serai, Ioannina Drink Nearly all tavernas sell their own ‘open’ wine, In the heart of the town of Ioannina. This 5* hotel known as village wine. It is something of an combines the traditional style of Ioannina with acquired taste, but it goes well with the local food. elements of the Middle East. Facilities include a If you are unsure you can always ask if you can try restaurant and bar, Spa with steam room and the wine before you agree to it. Prices of local heated pool, beauty salon and gym. All the ‘village’ wine are usually around 5 euros per half comfortable bedrooms have either a bath or litre. shower, air-conditioning, safe, mini-bar, TV, hairdryer and bathrobes and slippers. Local drinks are ouzo, tsipoura, metaxa and, of For more information visit the hotel website: course, Greek wine. Tsipoura is the local firewater! http://www.grandserai.com/ This is distilled from the residue of the grapes after making wine. You will probably find you come across this whether you want to or not, as it is very often served, complimentary, at the end of a meal. Meals included in your holiday Breakfast - Daily Dinner – one dinner in Thessaloniki Destination Join historian Jeremy Paterson as he takes ‘the where the water once accumulated, eventually road less travelled’ through Northern Greece, from dried out. Many 17th and 18th century travellers the ancient tombs of Macedonia with their described the city as built on a rock from which spectacular hoards of gold, to the remarkable many waterfalls fell. 'monasteries in the sky', Meteora and the villages and humped–backed packhorse bridges of the For more information about Pella and Edhessa, please Pindus mountains. We visit Ioannina, where Byron visit: met Ottoman-Albanian tyrant Ali Pasha. We https://www.britannica.com/place/Pella-ancient-city- consult the oracle at Dodona, we see the site of Greece the Battle of Actium where Augustus defeated http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/nature/waterfalls/the_w Antony and Cleopatra. We also visit Pella, the aterfalls_of_edessa capital of ancient Macedonia, Edhessa, the ‘city of waters’, and explore the fascinating history of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece Places of interest included in the tour: and the most important centre of the area. Built near the sea, it is a modern metropolis bearing the Pella and Edhessa marks of its stormy history and cosmopolitan Pella is an ancient city located in Central character, which give it a special beauty and Macedonia, best known as the historic capital of charm. the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and the The Archaeological Museum here is excellent and birthplace of Alexander the Great. Excavations in one of the largest museums in Greece. It has some Pella by the Greek Archaeological Service began in unique collections exhibiting artefacts from the 1957 and revealed large, well-built houses with Prehistoric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and colonnaded courts and rooms with mosaic floors Roman periods, mostly from the city of portraying such scenes as a lion hunt and Dionysus Thessaloniki but also from the region of riding a panther. These mosaics are made with Macedonia in general. small natural pebbles of various colours, carefully matched and laid, and are masterpieces of their For more information about Thessaloniki, please visit: kind. They date from the late 4th century BC. https://www.lonelyplanet.com/greece/northern- Excavations revealed the town to be laid out on a greece/thessaloniki rectangular grid plan with streets more than 30 feet wide. Under the streets are terra-cotta pipes Ancient Aigai for distributing fresh water. The excellent museum Ancient Aigai used to be the cradle of the Temenid of Pella is located in the north eastern part of the dynasty, which gave humanity two of its most archaeological site. imposing figures, Philip II and ultimately Alexander the Great, who would go on to change the course The Waterfalls of Edhessa are situated in Edhessa of Greek and world history. In the underground town and are considered the tallest waterfalls in building that encases and protects the Greece. The city is filled with little bridges and the monuments, the visitor can unravel the threads of sound of running water will accompany your history and myth. The illuminated ancient objects strolls around the town. The main volume of water shine all the more brightly in the dark. The sight of was collected in a small basin in the west side of Philip II’s tomb and the treasures exhibited near the city, up to the end of the 14th century, but due the place where they were found is truly awe- to a geological phenomenon the water changed inspiring.
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