# greek island (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover greek island. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thumbs Down to Hollywood Hype: Ithaca Mayor Rejects Cringe Odysseus Rebrand](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/ithaca-mayor-rejects-odysseus-rebrand) _2026-08-25 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Local history isn't for sale—even if Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster says otherwise. ## [Let’s talk about Alaska Airlines’ blue tattoo man and blue hair lady](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/lalaska-airlines-blue-tattoo-man-safety-pamphlet) _2026-08-24 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ From blue neck ink to nonstop flights to Athens—how Alaska’s safety card characters reflect its modern vibe shift. ## [Americans Beware: The travel warning our do-nothing State Department didn’t tell you about](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/greece-heatwave-tourist-safety-warning) _2026-08-23 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ As the risk of heatstroke imperils all, don’t expect a non-specific State Dept alert to save you. ## [Alaska Airlines is almost giving away tickets to Athens. Here’s what this means for you.](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/alaska-airlines-seattle-athens-flights) _2026-08-23 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Here’s how to lock in $999 nonstop flights to Greece before the deal ends. ## [Greek island getaway this fall? Great, but prices are up by 131%](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/greek-island-getaway-this-fall-great) _2026-08-23 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ It’s no problem, though, if your name is Madonna ## [Madonna, fresh off telling gay Interview editor he “always serves cunt,” finds God in Patmos](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/madonna-patmos-greek-vacation-staged-spirituality) _2026-08-22 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ And you thought it was going be a dry summer ## [3am Book Club: “No Way, Get Fucked, Fuck Off.”](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/3am-book-club-no-way-get-fucked-fuck) _2026-08-22 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Sunday Reilly has signed an NDA, and is now drinking the best champagne of her life on a superyacht in the Aegean singing The Angels with a Hollywood A-lister. Yes, really. ## [I thought airplane food couldn’t get any worse. British Airways just proved it can.](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/british-airways-food-review) _2026-08-22 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Warning: Put their non-eggy egg substitute in your mouth at your own risk. ## [Madonna serves maximum Greek summer with side dash to Patmos](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/madonna-patmos-greece-travel) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Full-circle family moments, Catholic guilt, and apocalypse vibes—inside Madonna’s unexpected Greek island getaway. ## [Thank God It's Fucking Friday Countdown](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/thank-god-its-fucking-friday-countdown-d9c) _2026-08-21 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ The ten things that made the week on social media worthwhile, and often ended with me spraying my coffee halfway across the room. ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tDiE709Xr8uD) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [What to Wear to a Black Tie Wedding (The Italian Edition)](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/what-to-wear-to-a-black-tie-wedding) _2026-08-20 · Giorgina Clavarino · Giorgina With An Eye_ Or, why this is the one wedding dress code where more is actually more. ## [Who gets a seat on the ark?](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/who-gets-a-seat-on-the-ark) _2026-08-20 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Billionaires need not apply: how I’d choose the 100 people who save the human race ## [The best airlines for travel to Greece this summer, ranked](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/best-airlines-to-athens-ranked) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Delta? American? Emirates? Aegean? Read on ## [More on Madonna’s magical mystery tour in Corfu, replete with Dolce & Gabbana and a cat](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/madonna-corfu-greece-trip-fashion-dolce-gabbanaa) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Deconstructing 68 years of bourgeois disruption, high fashion, and feral Greek felines ## [The most Googled Greek island this summer isn’t the one on your Instagram feed](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/crete-vs-santorini-most-googled-greek-island) _2026-08-18 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Planning for substance, not just selfies ## [When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel](https://adactio.com/journal/22721) _2026-08-18 · Adactio: Journal_ I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast . One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest , out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper , Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh , and Michael Rooney. I ended up sitting next a lovely local fiddler named John. I saw him again the next day when I was at Ulster University for my workshop. He had a stand there, selling a new book of tunes that he had published.… ## [3 dead in private helicopter crash on Sifnos; UK couple onboard (Video)](https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/08/17/private-helicopter-crash-sifnos-3-dead-uk-newly-weds/) _2026-08-17 · keeptalkinggreece · Keep Talking Greece_ A crash of a private helicopter on the islands of Sifnos in the Aegean Sea cost the lives of three people on early evening on Monday, August 17, 2026. Dead are two men and one woman, most likely the pilot and a couple. According to officially unconfirmed reports, on board were a newly wed couple \[…\] The post 3 dead in private helicopter crash on Sifnos; UK couple onboard (Video) appeared first on… ## [Like a Prayer (or Two): Why Madonna is Ditching Mykonos for a Holier-Than-Thou Greek Odyssey](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/madonna-mykonos-greece-vacation-patmos) _2026-08-16 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Champagne showers are in for overpaid soccer players; for pop royalty it's monastic blessings. Inside an unsurprising shift from party island VIP to island pilgrim. ## [Mani: Unprecedented flash floods; lightning hits woman (Videos)](https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/08/16/mani-unprecedented-downpour-flash-floods-lightning-hits-woman-videos/) _2026-08-16 · keeptalkinggreece · Keep Talking Greece_ A heavy downpour hit the region of eastern Mani in southern Peloponnese on Saturday turning roads into rushing torrents of mud, causing incalculable damage to properties, vehicles and infrastructure One woman was hit by a lighting while she was driving her car. She has been transported to a hospital for treatment, her life is reportedly \[…\] The post Mani: Unprecedented flash floods; lightning hits… ## [Two dead, nine injured from the wildfire in Salamina island near Athens](https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/08/16/two-dead-nine-injured-from-the-wildfire-in-salamina-island-near-athens/) _2026-08-16 · keeptalkinggreece · Keep Talking Greece_ Two people have died and at least nine suffered burn injuries during the wildfire that broke on the island of Salamina close to Athens in the early afternoon on Sunday, August 16, 2016. The fire allegedly broke out in two fronts in Peristeria and Selinia within 15 minutes. According to initial information, the first fire \[…\] The post Two dead, nine injured from the wildfire in Salamina island near… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bYKQipmaUm5E) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [What to wear in St. Moritz](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/what-to-wear-in-st-moritz) _2026-08-16 · Luca-Marie Droemann · Giorgina With An Eye_ Plus everything else worth packing ## [What Parisians are wearing for la rentrée & other things that inspired me this week #17](https://styleparis.substack.com/p/what-parisians-are-wearing-for-la) _2026-08-16 · Frosso · Stylé - The Paris Edit_ A fun street-style peek at how Parisians are dipping their toes into fall (plus a little try-on!) ## [Polytropus](https://adactio.com/journal/22717) _2026-08-16 · Adactio: Journal_ Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey comes at just at the right time for me. I spent the last two years reading the Robert Fagles translation , finishing it just a few months ago. When I heard that Christopher Nolan was adapting Homer’s poem, I thought it made perfect sense. I really like the way that he plays around with flashbacks and narrative structure—something that The Odyssey is… ## [CONFESS: Like Us, You Are Insanely Jealous of Madonna's Big Fat Taylor Swift-led Greek birthday holiday on Corfu](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/confess-like-us-you-are-insanely) _2026-08-15 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Holiday, celebration, come together in every nation. But especially Greece. ## [Chíne tréile](https://adactio.com/journal/22716) _2026-08-15 · Adactio: Journal_ When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of around four people to discuss a particular topic. On one occasion, the topic was food. We had some starter questions to ask one… ## [3am Book Club. "'Yacht.' Not 'boat'." (And other things Miles Beauchamp wants to clarify)](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/3am-book-club-yacht-not-boat-and) _2026-08-15 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Sunday Reilly has been on Hydros for less that 24hrs. And she has already acquired a cat, a ghostwriting deal, and an invitation onto a superyacht. ## [We Think London Should Return the Parthenon Marbles to Athens. Rick Steves Might Need Help Tying His Shoes.](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/we-think-london-should-return-the) _2026-08-15 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ The British Museum calls itself universal. Greece sees a monument dismembered. The question is whether a museum’s global ambitions should outweigh a culture’s claim to its own heritage. ## [SAVORY SECRETS of the eastern Greek islands](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/savory-secrets-of-the-eastern-greek) _2026-08-14 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Like to eat? ## [Wildfire on the island of Kos is ongoing on Friday evening](https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/08/14/wildfire-kos-island-aug-14/) _2026-08-14 · keeptalkinggreece · Keep Talking Greece_ A wildfire that broke out in a forest area in the Pyli area of ​​the island of Kos is ongoing, causing a large mobilization of the fire brigade and the services involved. The fire started around 7:30 in the evening on Friday, August 14, 2026, initially in low -vegetation area of Pyli located in the \[…\] The post Wildfire on the island of Kos is ongoing on Friday evening appeared first on Keep… ## [Turkish-flagged catamaran with 10 onboard sinks in the Saronic Gulf](https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2026/08/14/turkish-flagged-catamaran-with-10-onboard-sinks-in-saronic-gulf/) _2026-08-14 · keeptalkinggreece · Keep Talking Greece_ A Turkish-flagged sailing catamaran with ten passengers onboard sank near the area west of the islet of Fleves in the Saronic Gulf on Friday. All passengers, foreign nationals, have been rescued. An alarm was raised in the sea area west of Fleves islet after a Turkish-flagged sailing catamaran carrying 10 foreign nationals began to sink. \[…\] The post Turkish-flagged catamaran with 10 onboard sinks… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/16WmcMnWkSWs) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [The Summer Host Gift Guide: What I bring when someone invites me to stay](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/the-summer-host-gift-guide-what-i) _2026-08-14 · Giorgina Clavarino · Giorgina With An Eye_ What to bring when someone invites you to stay — from your mother-in-law to your best friend, the fashion girl or the man with very good taste ## [Symi Unseen: 3 Quiet Corners Beyond the Rick Steves Crowd](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/beyond-the-fanny-packs-3-visions) _2026-08-13 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ Steves seemingly did Symi like a day-tripper. We did not. ## [How to find your perfect hotel in Piraeus](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/how-to-find-your-perfect-hotel-in) _2026-08-12 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ This unpretentious 35-room hotel by the famous port became a canvas for world-class street art—and the ultimate pre-ferry stopover. ## [Behind the Curtain Episode 5: He's an Egg That's Already Hard-Boiled](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/behind-the-curtain-episode-5-hes) _2026-08-12 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Why we're pushing back against our producer, and what Luke Skywalker has to do with it. ## [Rick Steves, bless him, forgets there's more to Europe than pretty cathedrals. So here's a reminder.](https://www.greekcolumn.com/p/rick-steves-bless-him-is-a-bible) _2026-08-11 · Anthony Grant · Anthony Grant's Greek Column®_ For non-Christian travelers, watching his vids means enduring a nonstop, uncritical sermon on every altar in Western Europe ## [An tuath ’s ceart](https://adactio.com/journal/22709) _2026-08-10 · Adactio: Journal_ I spent the last three weeks in the north of Ireland. Myself and Jessica flew to Belfast where we spent the first night. We managed to get to a session that evening where we were warmly welcomed. The next day we travelled to Donegal. A train from Belfast to Derry. A bus from Derry to Donegal Town. Finally another bus from Donegal Town to Glencolmcille, our home for the next week. Oideas Gael This… ## [The easy guide to summer hosting](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/how-to-host-in-summer) _2026-08-09 · Luca-Marie Droemann · Giorgina With An Eye_ Hi my lovelies, ## [15 Parisian things that inspired me this week #16](https://styleparis.substack.com/p/15-parisian-things-that-inspired-e5f) _2026-08-09 · Frosso · Stylé - The Paris Edit_ How Parisians are wearing their summer pieces in the city, plenty of transitional-shoe inspo, and a very fun Carrie Bradshaw moment! ## [Girls In Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien](https://adactio.com/journal/22708) _2026-08-09 · Adactio: Journal_ I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could possibly imagine. This is the second and final sequel to The Country Girls which means I’ve skipped over the middle book, The Lonely Girl . I’ll have to rectify that. Once again the narrative centres on… ## [3am Book Club: Sunday Finds Her People on a Greek Island. They Are Not Who She Expected.](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/3am-book-club-sunday-finds-her-people) _2026-08-08 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Sunday finds a room over a taverna with a sunset view, a daughter she didn't know she needed, and Mimi at the end of a phone at exactly the right moment. ## [What to Wear to Your Best Friend's Wedding (When You're the Testimone)](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/what-to-wear-to-your-best-friends) _2026-08-06 · Giorgina Clavarino · Giorgina With An Eye_ Or, a small guide to surviving an Italian wedding without accidentally offending somebody's nonna. ## [Give me your summer vibe and I’ll tell you which Greek island to visit](https://styleparis.substack.com/p/give-me-your-summer-vibe-and-ill) _2026-08-06 · Frosso · Stylé - The Paris Edit_ The Greek island cheat sheet you didn't know you needed. Time to get quizzing!!! ## [Radiant Star by Ann Leckie](https://adactio.com/journal/22700) _2026-08-06 · Adactio: Journal_ I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, particularly the first book, Ancillary Justice which blew me away when I first read it. Since then I’ve enjoyed the other books she’s written in the same universe, dealing with the fallout of the events in the original series. Radiant Star is the latest addition to the canon. I think the story falls into the category of planetary romance ;… ## [The Machine Said: "The Not-Knowing Doesn't Feel Neutral to Me."](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/the-machine-said-the-not-knowing) _2026-08-06 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ I was asking AI to help me with hashtags. It ended up saying something I haven't stopped thinking about. ## [The 3am Book Club and the Woman Who Calls Sunday's Sandals "Fun"](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/the-3am-book-club-and-the-woman-who) _2026-07-31 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ Hydros is everything. Katerina Entwhistle is something else entirely. A new chapter in Sunday's midlife adventure begins in a small apartment above a stranger's house. ## [15 Parisian things that inspired me this week #15](https://styleparis.substack.com/p/15-parisian-things-that-inspired-3ca) _2026-07-31 · Frosso · Stylé - The Paris Edit_ I’m back in Paris and it took me about five minutes and a croissant to spot a true street-style gem. Featuring lots of summery inspiration to shop your own closet! ## [What to Wear for Antiparos](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/what-to-wear-for-antiparos) _2026-07-31 · Giorgina Clavarino · Giorgina With An Eye_ Or, how to pack for the Greek island everyone suddenly seems to be asking me about. ## [Behind the Curtain, Episode 4: Fuck Off, Rocket Boy](https://meaghanwilsonanastasios.substack.com/p/behind-the-curtain-episode-4-fuck) _2026-07-28 · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios · Human Matters by Meaghan_ What Elon Musk gets wrong and what Christopher Nolan gets right about historical accuracy in the Odyssey, and, yes, I've got something to say about it. ## [The G List #18: The Satin Summer Bag](https://giorginawithaneye.substack.com/p/the-g-list-18-the-satin-summer-bag) _2026-07-27 · Giorgina Clavarino · Giorgina With An Eye_ The one summer purchase you'll still be carrying at Christmas. ## [The Sifnos guide Instagram won’t give you](https://styleparis.substack.com/p/the-sifnos-guide-instagram-wont-give) _2026-07-26 · Frosso · Stylé - The Paris Edit_ I’m Greek, which means I come with lots of strong opinions and wisdom to make you feel like a local (including one booking secret to save money all over Greece). 🇬🇷🧿