Olympus

Hello, before diving into the mundane, I want to pose a question to the intelligent audience that (I want to) believe reads me. If you were visiting an exotic place, say Bolivia, and for some reason woke up one morning with swollen lips: a) Would you ask the hotel where you’re staying for a doctor?

“I love to write. It’s how I express myself best… The ascent of Olympus left me somewhat silent; as I descended from the mountain walking through the ‘forest of silence,’ I heard my footsteps, and they were quiet. Even I was quiet.

Thursday in Nicosia was highly celebratory… The Sarantis family unveiled the new factory they have built in Cyprus, entering the steel market with a vengeance.

"I was just down on Earth and every human person that I saw down there was conspicuously convivial. Not scared. And when they're not scared, they're not worshiping me," confides Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) to Prometheus (Stephen Dillane) in the new Netflix series "Kaos," which has enjoyed immense success since its debut.

The legendary Governor’s Mansion (“Palataki” or “Kyverneion” in Greek) of Thessaloniki, the imposing edifice with its magnificent view, which has hosted heads of state, kings and prime ministers, is being revived.

Two weeks from the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, the world’s premier sporting event where the greatest athletes meet every four years, aiming for the highest distinction.

The rampant Greek imagination

Greek environmental organization Ecogenia announced on Wednesday its upcoming collaboration with the US Embassy in Greece within the framework of the "From California to Olympus" project, focusing on mobilizing young people to build it climate resilience at local level in the country, in a period when the climate crisis and natural disasters are a matter of the highest priority for Greece

The Mount Olympus, an old Boeing 727 of Olympic Airways, which was founded by Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1957, has been dismantled 24 years after it stopped flying so that it could be moved to its new home, on Vouliagmenis Avenue, a few meters from the Elliniko metro stop.

A group of climbers, research geologists and topography specialists have recalculated the altitude of Mt Olympus, Greece's highest mountain, with modern methods, a century after the Swiss surveyor and alpinist Marcel Kurz in 1921.

His work was completed in 1923, calculating the altitude at 2,917.85 meters.