The 'throne' room at Knossós

and right, the Byzantine city of Mistra

To see what is special about us

There are a few places on the Mani & More September 2010

Itinerary for Bronze Age Crete 2011

We vary the tours each year other itineraries we have done:

Mainly Peloponnese

Southern Greece

North Eastern Greece

North West Greece

Corfu

Photographs of Corfu in 1858

Tips for a happy holiday

What our guests say about us

Eating out in greece

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Mary Kehoe
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Jane Maw Cornish
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The Parthenon, Athens

photograph of a Corfiot taken by John Davenport Shakespear in 1858

this photo is the only surviving eveidence of how these pipes were smoked.

Relive the legends of Homer and the tragedies of Sophokles; walk in the footsteps of Pausanias and wonder at the glory of the works of Praxiteles and Phidias; enjoy the breathtaking scenery as we travel through olive clad mountains and fertile plains where you half expect to glimpse Herakles on one of his labours.

Our unique tours offer a chance to see all the major archaeological sites of ancient & classical Greece as well as taking you off the beaten track to less visited but fascinating places. In just a week we journey through over 3,000 years of Greek history, from Mycenaean to Byzantine, as well as enjoying the vibrancy of modern Greece.

We are now booking for Mani & More 2010, Wednesday 15th to Thursday 23rd September 2010. There are a few places left on this trip.
We will spend one night at Loutraki a spa town on the Gulf of Corinth, 4 nights at Ythio, known as the gateway to the Mani and 3 nights at Pylos on the west coast. We will visit the medieval towns of Mistra, Yeraki and Monemvasia; the Byzantine churches and tower houses of the Mani and go to the southernmost tip of the Greek mainland, Cape Matapan where Persephone entered Hades. For details see the full itinerary.

Prices: £925 per person, based on two sharing; £885 per person in a triple room, single room, £1085. Tour prices include scheduled day flights, all coach travel in Greece, comprehensive information on the sites, museums and history, and all hotel accommodation (B & B, en-suite). It does not include entrance to sites and museums or lunch and dinner for which you should allow about £250. For a price without flight please contact Mary Kehoe.

Plans for our first trip to Bronze Age Crete were scuppered by the Icelandic volcano and that trip has been rescheduled for May 2011. There may be a few spare places on the tour.

Because of this our next trip to the Peloponnese will now be in September 2011

The tours are organised & led by sisters Jane Maw Cornish and Mary Kehoe.
Travel to Greece, with Olympic or British Airways, is booked through Thornton's Travel (ABTA) and travel and accommodation in Greece is arranged by Christos Patakis of Anassa Travel, Athens, with whom we have been working since 1995.

Cape Matapan, Mani

Prickly pear, Mani

Note: These privately organised tours have been running since 1974 to see what is special about us to check availability or for more information phone Mary Kehoe 07882 694189 or Jane Maw Cornish 029 20 704314 or email Mary at maryekehoe47@yahoo.co.uk The best of the many guide books to Greece is produced by Blue Guides blueguides.com/all; They have a special offer on their Crete Guide for Damaris travellers www.blueguides.com/show/?display=book&key=94

The Greek-0-File is an annual publication written and edited by Sylvia & Terry Cook. It is packed with articles on every aspect of Greece and Greek life. You will find a lovely description of our tour of the Peloponnese in October 2003 in Greek-o-File Volume 3 and of the 2005 Northern Greece tour in Greek-o-File volume 5 (both now available for £6) The latest Greek-o-File, Volume 8 is just out and has 3 articles of particular interest: the story of the photographs of Corfu taken by Jane & Mary's great great grandfather in 1858, some recipes of his wife's (including Wild Boar) and an article by Judith Hepper about taking children (including Jane and Mary's grandchildren) to the ancient sites of Greece. You can buy this at the special price of £9.50 direct from Greek-o-File or at £10.50 from bookshops. To order visit www.greekofile.co.uk for a collection of beautiful sketches of Corfu by Theresa Nicholas and books by John Waller see www.yiannisbooks.com