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Τρίτη 18 Οκτωβρίου 2011
Τετάρτη 12 Οκτωβρίου 2011
To χαμομηλάκι: «Αγία Ταβιθά» - Ορφανική Στέγη
To χαμομηλάκι: «Αγία Ταβιθά» - Ορφανική Στέγη: Ορφανική Στέγη - Σωματείο αναγνωρισμένο Δελφών 38, Λιβαδειά 321 00 Τηλ. 22610-23516 Fax . 22610-81252 Προς, hamomilaki Κατόπι...
Τρίτη 11 Οκτωβρίου 2011
GREEK MANDARINS
GREEK MANDARINS!!!
GREEK MANDARINS SEASON STARTS END OF OCTOBER TILL APRIL
ALL VARIETIES AVAILABLE , ALL PACKING AVAILABLE!
SKYPE: peloponese7
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GREEK MANDARINS SEASON STARTS END OF OCTOBER TILL APRIL
ALL VARIETIES AVAILABLE , ALL PACKING AVAILABLE!
SKYPE: peloponese7
Τρίτη 4 Οκτωβρίου 2011
GREEK ORANGES
GREEK ORANGES
We can offer,
Fresh Delicious Greek Oranges A quality from Argolis Region,
all over Peloponese Region as also from all over Greece.
Availability starts early November for all year time.
We have All packing available - All sizes available
and huge quantities from all varieties.
Navelines
Navels
Navelate
Valencia
Call us for great offers!
Skype: peloponese7
E-mail: peloponese@gmail.com
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We can offer,
Fresh Delicious Greek Oranges A quality from Argolis Region,
all over Peloponese Region as also from all over Greece.
Availability starts early November for all year time.
We have All packing available - All sizes available
and huge quantities from all varieties.
Navelines
Navels
Navelate
Valencia
Call us for great offers!
Skype: peloponese7
E-mail: peloponese@gmail.com
Δευτέρα 30 Μαΐου 2011
GREEK WATERMELONS !!!
GREEK WATERMELONS!!!
Greece
Region <Peloponnese>
Watermelons OBLA / Galaxy
4-8 Kg
Watermelons DUMERA (barrels)
8- 17 kg
E-mail:peloponese@gmail.com
mob:+30 6940828673 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +30 6940828673 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Skype: peloponese7
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Greece
Region <Peloponnese>
Watermelons OBLA / Galaxy
4-8 Kg
Watermelons DUMERA (barrels)
8- 17 kg
E-mail:peloponese@gmail.com
mob:+30 6940828673 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +30 6940828673 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Skype: peloponese7
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Κυριακή 13 Φεβρουαρίου 2011
Παρασκευή 17 Δεκεμβρίου 2010
Πέμπτη 18 Νοεμβρίου 2010
Zeos Pilsner is the Second best beer in the world!!!
ZEOS PILSNER TOOK THE SILVER MEDAL IN CHICAGO AS THE 2 BEST BEER IN THE WORLD!!!
CONGRATULATIONS ZEOS!!!ARGOS GREEK BEER!!!
ZEOS PILSNER AND THE BLUE MAK ARE THE NATIONALS BEERS OF GREECE!!!
NOW THEY ARE INTERNATIONAL BEERS AS ALSO!!
CHEERS ZEOS!!!!
Σάββατο 24 Ιουλίου 2010
Export Inquiry for «Unique "Live" Hand Made Greek dough products
Export Inquiry for «Unique "Live" Catering Hand made dough products:
a) Hand made family Pizza fresh frozen (semi baked bread)
1. Family pizza frankfurter:
Dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper.
Filling: Gouda, frankfurter sausage, ham, bacon.
2. Family pizza pepperoni:
Dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper.
Filling: Gouda, bacon, pepperoni, mushrooms, peppers
3. Family special pizza village:
dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper.
filling:gouda,bacon,feta cheese, sausage frankfourter, mushrooms,peppers.
4. Family special vegetarian tradional ethnic Greek!! :
dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper.
Filling :Gouda, onion,pepper, fresh tomatoes, kalamata + manaki olives, & other seasonal vegetables.
5. Margarita
dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper
Filling :Gouda, pepper
6.Agro Farm pizza
dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper
Filling :Gouda, pepper, greek onion, olives, mushroom
7.Napolitana
dough composition: flour 55%, water, evaporated milk, yeast, oil, eggs, sugar, salt.
Sauce base: tomato skinned, sugar, salt, Oregon, pepper
Filling :Gouda, olives, oregon
(We can replace all pork products with chicken - beef -e.t.c)
Net weight by each type: square1200 gr, round750 gr, 500 gr, 180gr.
Pizza Base 900gr square (with the sauce)
Pizza Base 550r round (with the sauce)
b) Dough Nests full of delicious filling!!!
Hot dogs nest, hamburger nest, Mexicana, smoked pork nest, fresh chicken nest, tzatziki - nest, Village Nest
250gr. each nest
c) ethnic pies such as
mushroom pie, courgette pie, spinach+ feta cheese pie
olives pie, potatoes pie (250gr)
d)home made village cheese pie (250gr) !!!
e) LET’S PARTY!! With special CATERING MINI rolls!!!
With Different types of Greek special hand made "live» dough’s catering party mini rolls, such as :
cheese pie mini, ham kasseri pie mini, sausage roll mini,
ham and bacon croissant mini, bacon cheeses, hot dogs nest mini, hamburger nest, smoked beef nest, chicken nest, tzatziki -beef - olives nest, mushroom nest &
ethnic party mini rolls such as
Greek bougatsa mini, Vienna chocolate croissant, apple pie mini, cream -cherry croissant mini, cream -ananas croissant mini ,spinach pie mini, spinach-feta cheese pie mini, mushroom pie mini, olives pie mini, courgette pie mini
*New product just added: Mini pizza 35 gr of all types....
in box of 12 pieces!
Net weight per roll range from 35 - 45 - 65 gr. per roll.
Packs of many types. (if asked)
Fresh Frozen, BUT with no add of conservatives.
Expire after 1 year.
Lebesis V. & Sons
UNIT OF "LIVE Dough" Hand made Catering
With Our Kind Regards,
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Export & Sales Manager
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Τρίτη 20 Ιουλίου 2010
ΑΠΟ ΟΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΥΣ BLOGGERS TΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ ΕΝΑ ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟ ΑΝΤΙΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗ ΓΚΙΟΛIΑ...
ΑΦΙΕΡΩΜΕΝΟ....
Kοίταξέ με..αίμα κυλάει στο πρόσωπό μου...
ήμουνα ψηλά στα σύννεφα, όταν ξαφνικα, φύσηξε αγριεμένος αυτός ο δυνατός άνεμος και με πέταξε στη γή..
Σιγά μην τον φοβηθώ...
Κοίταξα ψηλά..Το συννεφάκι είχε δακρύσει..Του έλειπα??? Προσπάθησα να ξε΄φυγω από τη Γή...Δεν είχε κανείς φτερά σαν Εμένα..Με κοιτάνε όλοι παράξενα..
Δεν έχετε ξαναδεί Άγγελο?...
Κρύβομαι μέσα στα σύννεφα...
Χθες στη Γη φοβήθηκα πολύ..όταν έπεσα κάτω και τί δεν είδα...Παράξενοι οι άνθρωποι..Λένε πως αγαπάνε, μα δεν ξέρουν πώς να το κάνουν...όταν έπεσα στη Γή, ένας άνθρωπος με βοήθησε..ήρθε και μου έκλεισε την πληγή..
Όταν ομως 'επρεπε να γυρίσω, δεν ήρθε μαζί μου..Τώρα τον ακούω να με φωνάζει.
Είμαι τόσο ψηλά κι όμως τον ακούω...
Οι άλλοι με ψάχνουν, θέλουν να μάθουν τί συνέβει κάτω..
Εγώ όμως κρύβομαι...Τί να τους πώ?
Τί να πω και σε Αυτόν που με φωνάζει?
Ο,τι αγαπησα έναν ανθρωπο?
Οπως είπε κι αυτός?
Αγαπάνε οι ΆΓΓΕΛΟΙ?
Πώς να καταλάβει...Αφού δε έχω γεννηθεί ακομα...
Δε θα το πώ όμως..
Γιατί αν το μάθουν δεν πρόκειται να κατέβω πάλι κάτω στη Γη.
έμαθα κάτι πριν ακομα γεννηθώ...
Να Αγαπάω....
Σιγά μην τους φοβηθώ...ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ είμαι...κάνω ότι θέλω....Θα το έχουν μάλλον καταλάβει...
Σταμάτησε πια να με φωνάζει λυπημένα....
Ευτυχώς...Πόσο τον Αγάπησα αυτόν τον άνθρωπο....
Γεια σου ...
/c/ R / maiza
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Σάββατο 17 Ιουλίου 2010
This is a very interesting letter from an Anglican Priest from the UK talking about Islam-o-phobia in Europe.. I thought everyone here would like it … a very must, must read!!!!
FATHER FRANK’S RANTS
Rant Number 369 29 October 2009
Open Letter to Islam-o-phobe Dutch MP Geert Wilders
Dear Mr Wilders,
They say you can only take a horse to the water, you can’t make it drink. But human beings are not horses. Unlike animals, they can be reasoned with.
I offer these few remarks in the faint hope you are amenable to reason.
It is about your recent speech to the Alliance of Patriots in New York. In which you paint an apocalyptic picture of ‘the Islamization of Europe’. You describe some European cities with Muslim neighbourhoods in lurid terms. It is a world ‘where women walk around in figureless tents...
Their husbands, or slave holders, if you prefer, walk three steps ahead’.
Mr Wilders, I live bang near one of those areas in West London.
I often visit Whitechapel and Edgware Road – parts of our colourful Londonistan - I have never seen a Muslim woman walking behind her husband. Rather, the mothers stroll about in a proud, dignified manner, alongside the men.
Nothing in their behaviour suggests a subordinate role, let alone slavery. And there are tons of lively, even feisty Muslim girls wearing all sorts of gear.
True, they may not, as a rule, behave like permissive, liberated females, baring the flesh, hugging and kissing partners in public, no.
I would even guess most of them don’t sleep with boys before marriage. But since when are chastity, modesty and self-restraint so bad? The traditional, Christian mores of the Western civilisation which you claim to uphold used to prize such things, no?
’25 per cent of the population of Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now’.
Lies, damned lies and statistics, someone said..
But if you want native Europeans to stay numerically supreme, how about encouraging them to have more children?
To urge them not to use contraceptives, the pills? To give up abortion? To bolster family values?
Stop bashing Islam.
Embrace the Christian religion in its conservative, sound traditions and all will be kosher.
‘Thousands of mosques across Europe. With larger congregations than churches’, you notice. Well, whose fault is that?
Do perhaps Muslims stand at church doors, stopping the eager faithful from worshipping the Lord?
Methinks you should rather address yourself to Christians. ‘Look at Muslims’ you should say. ‘Look at how many regularly pray. How keen they are on the observances of their religion. You should do the same.’ Exactly.
The flourishing of mosques across Europe should serve as a stimulus to Christians.
A window of opportunity.
As an urgent reminder to get back to their vital, life-giving roots – the worship of the One True God. Why blame pious Muslims for the faults of lukewarm or nominal Christians, eh?
In Amsterdam ‘gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims’.
Awful, if true.
Funnily enough, I recall the words of Pym Fortuyn, the gay right-wing politician murdered by a fanatic. ‘I have nothing against Moroccans – I have slept with so many of them.’
‘The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.’
How bizarre. First, a godson of mine has been to Auschwitz, on a school trip. Part of a programme to learn about wartime horrors. School curricula in Britain do in fact include projects about WWII and persecutions of Jews and other people.
London’s Imperial War Museum has a holocaust section, which I viewed just the other day. What’s more, TV channels force-feed viewers with a daily, obsessive dose of films and programmes about the war and Germany’s crimes.
If anybody should complain about this state of affairs, it should be Germans. It fuels Germanophobia, the lurking, masochistic English vice. Do today’s Germans deserve such constant pilloring? After all, isn’t Germany amongst the strongest supporters of your beloved state of Israel?
The Prophet Muhammad.
Had he been ‘a man of peace...like Gandhi and Mother Teresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was...’ I won’t quote the rest, as it would be distasteful.
Muhammad certainly did not found a religion like the Quakers, no. And he is definitely different from figures like Buddha and Jesus. However, why you did not compare him to a prophet and lawgiver like Moses?
Muhammad had the Jewish tribes of Banu Qurayza slaughtered, you write. Well, Exodus 32:25 has Moses ordering the Levites to slay those who had worshipped the Golden Calf, about 3000 men.
‘Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord’ Moses told the slayers. Hardly like Gandhi, would you agree?
You are silent about Moses, I suspect, because in your speech you wrapped yourself in the mantle of defender of Israel.
Mr Wilders, this Anglican priest is opposed to the destruction of the state of Israel. Because I am a Christian, Jews are rather important to me.
I support both a Jewish state and a Palestinian state.
A modest-sized Jewish Vatican in the Holy Land is the realistic solution.
Bernard Wasserstein’s thoughtful book, ‘Israel & Palestine’, points the way. Wasserstein shows how your fantasy of Israel as a heroic outpost of the West against the incoming Jihad is nonsense.
Indeed, Israeli society today needs immigrants as much as Europe does. And they won’t be Jewish immigrants.
Despite your astonishing garbage about rising anti-Semitism in France (headed by a Jewish President!), Jews worldwide are happy where they are - they not migrating to Israel – or should I say ‘Isra-hell’, as my Israeli friend Ronen once wrote?
Ok, you don’t like Muslims.
Yet they are not going to go away.
Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were everywhere.
He didn’t like them. He tried several methods to get rid of them. Sprays, insecticides, this and that. Nothing worked.
The ladybirds kept being around. Indeed, they multiplied. The guy was getting obsessed with them, growing paranoid, bitter, haunted.
Eventually, he sent an e-mail to a wise old friend, an experienced gardener: ‘What should I do about the damned ladybirds?’
The reply came: ‘I suggest you learn to love them’.
Revd Frank Julian Gelli
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Rant Number 369 29 October 2009
Open Letter to Islam-o-phobe Dutch MP Geert Wilders
Dear Mr Wilders,
They say you can only take a horse to the water, you can’t make it drink. But human beings are not horses. Unlike animals, they can be reasoned with.
I offer these few remarks in the faint hope you are amenable to reason.
It is about your recent speech to the Alliance of Patriots in New York. In which you paint an apocalyptic picture of ‘the Islamization of Europe’. You describe some European cities with Muslim neighbourhoods in lurid terms. It is a world ‘where women walk around in figureless tents...
Their husbands, or slave holders, if you prefer, walk three steps ahead’.
Mr Wilders, I live bang near one of those areas in West London.
I often visit Whitechapel and Edgware Road – parts of our colourful Londonistan - I have never seen a Muslim woman walking behind her husband. Rather, the mothers stroll about in a proud, dignified manner, alongside the men.
Nothing in their behaviour suggests a subordinate role, let alone slavery. And there are tons of lively, even feisty Muslim girls wearing all sorts of gear.
True, they may not, as a rule, behave like permissive, liberated females, baring the flesh, hugging and kissing partners in public, no.
I would even guess most of them don’t sleep with boys before marriage. But since when are chastity, modesty and self-restraint so bad? The traditional, Christian mores of the Western civilisation which you claim to uphold used to prize such things, no?
’25 per cent of the population of Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now’.
Lies, damned lies and statistics, someone said..
But if you want native Europeans to stay numerically supreme, how about encouraging them to have more children?
To urge them not to use contraceptives, the pills? To give up abortion? To bolster family values?
Stop bashing Islam.
Embrace the Christian religion in its conservative, sound traditions and all will be kosher.
‘Thousands of mosques across Europe. With larger congregations than churches’, you notice. Well, whose fault is that?
Do perhaps Muslims stand at church doors, stopping the eager faithful from worshipping the Lord?
Methinks you should rather address yourself to Christians. ‘Look at Muslims’ you should say. ‘Look at how many regularly pray. How keen they are on the observances of their religion. You should do the same.’ Exactly.
The flourishing of mosques across Europe should serve as a stimulus to Christians.
A window of opportunity.
As an urgent reminder to get back to their vital, life-giving roots – the worship of the One True God. Why blame pious Muslims for the faults of lukewarm or nominal Christians, eh?
In Amsterdam ‘gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims’.
Awful, if true.
Funnily enough, I recall the words of Pym Fortuyn, the gay right-wing politician murdered by a fanatic. ‘I have nothing against Moroccans – I have slept with so many of them.’
‘The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.’
How bizarre. First, a godson of mine has been to Auschwitz, on a school trip. Part of a programme to learn about wartime horrors. School curricula in Britain do in fact include projects about WWII and persecutions of Jews and other people.
London’s Imperial War Museum has a holocaust section, which I viewed just the other day. What’s more, TV channels force-feed viewers with a daily, obsessive dose of films and programmes about the war and Germany’s crimes.
If anybody should complain about this state of affairs, it should be Germans. It fuels Germanophobia, the lurking, masochistic English vice. Do today’s Germans deserve such constant pilloring? After all, isn’t Germany amongst the strongest supporters of your beloved state of Israel?
The Prophet Muhammad.
Had he been ‘a man of peace...like Gandhi and Mother Teresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was...’ I won’t quote the rest, as it would be distasteful.
Muhammad certainly did not found a religion like the Quakers, no. And he is definitely different from figures like Buddha and Jesus. However, why you did not compare him to a prophet and lawgiver like Moses?
Muhammad had the Jewish tribes of Banu Qurayza slaughtered, you write. Well, Exodus 32:25 has Moses ordering the Levites to slay those who had worshipped the Golden Calf, about 3000 men.
‘Today you have ordained yourselves for the service of the Lord’ Moses told the slayers. Hardly like Gandhi, would you agree?
You are silent about Moses, I suspect, because in your speech you wrapped yourself in the mantle of defender of Israel.
Mr Wilders, this Anglican priest is opposed to the destruction of the state of Israel. Because I am a Christian, Jews are rather important to me.
I support both a Jewish state and a Palestinian state.
A modest-sized Jewish Vatican in the Holy Land is the realistic solution.
Bernard Wasserstein’s thoughtful book, ‘Israel & Palestine’, points the way. Wasserstein shows how your fantasy of Israel as a heroic outpost of the West against the incoming Jihad is nonsense.
Indeed, Israeli society today needs immigrants as much as Europe does. And they won’t be Jewish immigrants.
Despite your astonishing garbage about rising anti-Semitism in France (headed by a Jewish President!), Jews worldwide are happy where they are - they not migrating to Israel – or should I say ‘Isra-hell’, as my Israeli friend Ronen once wrote?
Ok, you don’t like Muslims.
Yet they are not going to go away.
Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were everywhere.
He didn’t like them. He tried several methods to get rid of them. Sprays, insecticides, this and that. Nothing worked.
The ladybirds kept being around. Indeed, they multiplied. The guy was getting obsessed with them, growing paranoid, bitter, haunted.
Eventually, he sent an e-mail to a wise old friend, an experienced gardener: ‘What should I do about the damned ladybirds?’
The reply came: ‘I suggest you learn to love them’.
Revd Frank Julian Gelli
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Παρασκευή 2 Ιουλίου 2010
Σάββατο 26 Ιουνίου 2010
Greece starts putting island land up for sale to save economy
Desperate attempt to repay debts also driven by inability to find funds to develop infrastructure on islands
Elena Moya guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 24 June 2010 21.33
There's little that shouts "seriously rich" as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay brothers prefer Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, while Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his Greek hideway.
Now Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfill their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 sunkissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts.
The Guardian has learned that an area in Mykonos, one of Greece's top tourist destinations, is one of the sites for sale. The area is one-third owned by the government, which is looking for a buyer willing to inject capital and develop a luxury tourism complex, according to a source close to the negotiations.
Potential investors also looking at property on the island of Rhodes, are mostly Russian and Chinese. Investors in both countries are looking for a little bit of the Mediterranean as holiday destinations for their increasingly affluent populations. Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, is among those understood to be interested, although a spokesman denied he was about to invest.
Greece has embarked on the desperate measures after being pushed into a €110bn (£90bn) bailout by the EU and the IMF last month, following a decade of overspending and after jittery investors raised borrowing costs to unbearable levels.
The sale of an island – or convincing a member of the international jet-set to take on a long-term lease – would help to boost its coffers. The Private Islands website lists 1,235-acre Nafsika, in the Ionian sea, on sale by private interests for €15m. But others are on offer by private owners for less than €2m – less than a townhouse in Mayfair or Chelsea. Some of the country's numerous islands are tiny which could barely fit a single sunbed.
Only 227 Greek islands are populated and the decision to press ahead with potential sales has also been driven by the inability of the state to develop basic infrastructure, or police most of its islands. The hope is that the sale or long-term lease of some islands will attract investment that will generate jobs and taxable income.
Told by the Guardian that such sales or leases were in prospect, Makis Perdikaris, director of Greek Island Properties, said that he would be unhappy at the prospect of any outright sale of state land: "I am sad - selling off your islands or areas that belong to the people of Greece should be used as the last resort," he said. But he was not necessarily against long-term leases: "The first thing is to develop the economy and attract foreign domestic investment to create the -necessary infrastructure. The point is to get money."
In its battle to raise funds, the country is also planning to sell its rail and water companies. Chinese investors are understood to be interested in the Greek train system, as they already control some of the ports. In a deal announced earlier this month, the Greek government also agreed to export olive oil to China.
After the socialist government of prime minister Geórgios Papandreou responded to the IMF bailout with draconian budget cuts, rioters took to the streets, costing three lives in May.
In the midst of the crisis, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, delayed her support as she faced local elections and popular opposition to any public-funded help to Greece.
As strikes almost paralysed the country and hedge funds bet against the economy, German politicians called for Greece to start selling islands, historic buildings and artworks. It now appears that the Greek government has heeded their demands.
The City, where investors are increasingly shunning Greek investments, welcomed any island sales. "It's a shame if it has come to this but it does at least demonstrate that Greece is prepared to take all actions necessary to try and meet its obligations," said Gary Jenkins, a credit analyst at Evolution Securities.
Property prices have fallen between 10% and 20% since the May riots in Athens, as bad publicity has drawn visitors away, Perdikaris said.
"We have experienced a very slow booking season. Most tour operators offer hugely discounted rates," he said. Britons account for more than 60% of his company's property sales.
• This article was amended on 25 June 2010. The original heading - Greece puts its islands up for sale to save economy - went beyond what the story said. This has been corrected. A reference to Natsika has been amended to make clear this sale offer is private. More context has been added to a quotation from Makis Perdikaris, director of Greek Island Properties, to make clear that he was not expressing knowledge of existing Greek government sales of islands or island land.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Elena Moya guardian.co.uk,
Thursday 24 June 2010 21.33
There's little that shouts "seriously rich" as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay brothers prefer Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, while Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his Greek hideway.
Now Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfill their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 sunkissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts.
The Guardian has learned that an area in Mykonos, one of Greece's top tourist destinations, is one of the sites for sale. The area is one-third owned by the government, which is looking for a buyer willing to inject capital and develop a luxury tourism complex, according to a source close to the negotiations.
Potential investors also looking at property on the island of Rhodes, are mostly Russian and Chinese. Investors in both countries are looking for a little bit of the Mediterranean as holiday destinations for their increasingly affluent populations. Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, is among those understood to be interested, although a spokesman denied he was about to invest.
Greece has embarked on the desperate measures after being pushed into a €110bn (£90bn) bailout by the EU and the IMF last month, following a decade of overspending and after jittery investors raised borrowing costs to unbearable levels.
The sale of an island – or convincing a member of the international jet-set to take on a long-term lease – would help to boost its coffers. The Private Islands website lists 1,235-acre Nafsika, in the Ionian sea, on sale by private interests for €15m. But others are on offer by private owners for less than €2m – less than a townhouse in Mayfair or Chelsea. Some of the country's numerous islands are tiny which could barely fit a single sunbed.
Only 227 Greek islands are populated and the decision to press ahead with potential sales has also been driven by the inability of the state to develop basic infrastructure, or police most of its islands. The hope is that the sale or long-term lease of some islands will attract investment that will generate jobs and taxable income.
Told by the Guardian that such sales or leases were in prospect, Makis Perdikaris, director of Greek Island Properties, said that he would be unhappy at the prospect of any outright sale of state land: "I am sad - selling off your islands or areas that belong to the people of Greece should be used as the last resort," he said. But he was not necessarily against long-term leases: "The first thing is to develop the economy and attract foreign domestic investment to create the -necessary infrastructure. The point is to get money."
In its battle to raise funds, the country is also planning to sell its rail and water companies. Chinese investors are understood to be interested in the Greek train system, as they already control some of the ports. In a deal announced earlier this month, the Greek government also agreed to export olive oil to China.
After the socialist government of prime minister Geórgios Papandreou responded to the IMF bailout with draconian budget cuts, rioters took to the streets, costing three lives in May.
In the midst of the crisis, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, delayed her support as she faced local elections and popular opposition to any public-funded help to Greece.
As strikes almost paralysed the country and hedge funds bet against the economy, German politicians called for Greece to start selling islands, historic buildings and artworks. It now appears that the Greek government has heeded their demands.
The City, where investors are increasingly shunning Greek investments, welcomed any island sales. "It's a shame if it has come to this but it does at least demonstrate that Greece is prepared to take all actions necessary to try and meet its obligations," said Gary Jenkins, a credit analyst at Evolution Securities.
Property prices have fallen between 10% and 20% since the May riots in Athens, as bad publicity has drawn visitors away, Perdikaris said.
"We have experienced a very slow booking season. Most tour operators offer hugely discounted rates," he said. Britons account for more than 60% of his company's property sales.
• This article was amended on 25 June 2010. The original heading - Greece puts its islands up for sale to save economy - went beyond what the story said. This has been corrected. A reference to Natsika has been amended to make clear this sale offer is private. More context has been added to a quotation from Makis Perdikaris, director of Greek Island Properties, to make clear that he was not expressing knowledge of existing Greek government sales of islands or island land.
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