AEGINAGREECE NEWS

EDITION 01-2007

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	You just received our first newsletter in 2007! We wish everybody a happy Easter! Wintertime has passed so quickly this year and unlike the previous years, we hardly experienced any winter at all. Traditionally Greek Easter is the start of the new tourist season and Aegina island is ready to welcome everybody. AEGINAGREECE.COM will be expanded this year with extra features to make it even more informative and user friendly.

What about taking a last minute break at an exclusive property with a fantastic view? Celine is offering a 20% discount on bookings between now and 18 May making a one week stay only 920 Euros. Come with your family and friends (the house can sleep up to 8) and enjoy an early holiday at this well equipped house with plunge pool and the best views you’ll find. For more info about Celine’s House and other properties check out www.aeginapropertyservices.com or e-mail directly.

Celebrate Easter the Greek Traditional Way

Spring is in the air, and like Greeks worldwide, the people on Aegina are preparing to celebrate their Pascha or Greek Orthodox Easter. Considered the most important holiday on the Greek calendar, Orthodox Easter’s uniqueness lies more in the week leading up the event rather than the actual religious holiday. Click here for a further reading written by Anne Yannoulis about the customary rituals happening in the Orthodox Holy Week.

Since January 2007 Aegina island has a new mayor, Panagiotis Koukoulis. In the few months that have past, we have seen that things really are changing in the right direction. With the slogan "The Solutions are in Our Own Hands" the party aims to keep Aegina as a nice and healthy place to live. They try to activate the citizens of Aegina to participate in the process to become not only aware of the existing problems on the island, but even more important to show them that they can easily contribute themselves to solve some of the problems. For example: in the near future everybody will have to seperate their waste, there is a active campaign to make people aware of ways to use the water in a more economical way and there is active policy to have less cars in the centre of Aegina. Soon you can read more about the plans of the new mayor and his party on aeginagreece.com in English. Until then you can read the latest news in Greek on their online blog, their website, or click here to read the latest info brochure (in Greek).

Join the Aeginagreece.com photo contest! Sendus by e-mail, your most beautiful Aegina island picture and you may be the winner of the best book about Aegina: "Aegina, the first capital of modern Greece" by Sofia N. Sfyroera.
The maximum allowed size of the picture you want to send for the contest is 1.5 MB. Please include in your e-mail the description of your picture, the year you have taken the picture and your name and address. Instead of sending your pictures until the 30th of April 2007 (as we announced earlier), you can send your pictures until the end of May. The winning picture will be publised on top of this page in the month of June 2007.

If you are a regular visitor of Aegina you must have noticed that there are less stray dogs on the streets. Due to the continues hard work of ANIMAL RESPECT (the private organisation on Aegina who takes care of the local animals on Aegina and AgistrI) lots of strays have found new homes abroad and in Greece. In the past years their dogshelter has turned into a professional shelter where abondoned dogs have a safe and clean place to wait for their second or sometimes third chance in life. Regulary vets visit the shelter to sterilise, castrate or operate dogs and cats free of charge. The loving way of taking care of the animals and the endless energy this small group of people is putting in ANIMAL RESPECT is admirable and unfortunately highly underestimated by the local government on the island. If you want to learn more about ANIMAL RESPECT, if you want to home one of their lovely dogs, or want to support them by donating money, visit their website (in German). Soon you will find more information about this fantastic organisation on this website in English. Please help them so they can continue doing their great job!
You can also read more about ANIMAL RESPECT in Dutch on the website of Wereld Asielen (international support organisation of strays).

Since January 2007 Medi Terra has joined Real Estate Agent Saronic Real Estate. Saronic Real Estate is expanding its online database daily, The available properties are as well shown on their website as on aeginagreece.com. Finally the real estate market on Aegina is getting more transparent and professional. The real estate pages are updated with new properties, pictures and info daily! Click here to have a look at the houses for sale or click here to have a look at the plots for sale. You will find the Saronic Real Estate office next to Hotel Brown and Babis taverna on the boulevard on Aegina. They are happy to help you find the house or plot you are looking for or helping you selling your property

A complete training session in 20 minutes

Do you want to exercise your body during your holiday without spending hours in the gym? Kouros Body & Sports club in Aegina is offering you the possibility to do that with the use of The Body Coach in combination with your personal Kouros trainer. You can contact Kouros at telephone number: 22970 28245. You find Kouros Gym next to the new Athetic Centre in Aegina.
The Body Coach® is a full-featured professional training machine making use of mechanical vibrations ('Whole Body Vibration'). An automatic muscle reflex that activates 100% of the muscle groups, gets your body in shape without wasting time and without heavy stress. This means that there is less chance of injuries. In comparison with other training methods, you can get 20 to 30% better results in 80% less time. For more information about The Body Coach click here