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LATEST ARTICLES &
PRESS RELEASES:
12 December 2011
Travel à la carte adds 8
new villas to its Paxos holiday villa programme
Not all
news from Greece is bad –
Travel à la carte, specialists in villa holidays on Paxos, will be
celebrating the New Year with the addition of 8 new villas. This latest
initiative from Travel à la carte
demonstrates their confidence in Greece as the best holiday destination
in Europe...
read more
8 December 2011
Villa holidays in Kefalonia: now available from Travel
à
la carte
Travel à
la carte, specialists in villa holidays to Paxos, are delighted to
announce Kefalonia as their newest villa holiday destination, starting
in 2012...
read more
14 June 2011
Last minute holidays
to Paxos
It’s going to be a late booking market this summer,
the Sunday Times reported at the weekend. There are a
lot of unsold package holidays out there, it said, to
many Mediterranean destinations, including Greece...
read more
26 May 2011
Mid-Week Savings on a Paxos Holiday
Clever ways to save money on your holiday this summer.
A recent Which report has highlighted a useful way of making savings on
your summer holiday this year. The report points out that with some
airlines fares can be significantly lower on weekdays than at weekends...
read more
29 April 2011
Climate change on Paxos
As I write, sunshine is pouring through the window of my
London office. But how long will it last? Every year we
British hope for a long hot summer, with weeks of high
temperatures and clear days, and more or less every year
we are disappointed. We are among the world’s busiest
travellers over the summer, and no wonder. For too long
we have suffered cold and wet summer holidays, with
blustery west winds bringing squalls of rain and cold
wind in off the Atlantic ocean, with just a few days of
really hot sunshine (usually when you’re stuck at work).
No wonder the British yearn for a change of climate, and
head off to the Med...
read more
6 April 2011
A la
carte holidays to peaceful Paxos
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, if you wanted to
take a holiday on the Ionian island paradise of Paxos,
things were not so simple. To begin with you were
obliged to travel as part of a package, for a fixed
period of one or two weeks. Secondly, flights to Corfu,
the nearest island to Paxos with an airport, were on two
days of the week only, and on both of them the airport
turned into a gigantic rugby scrum...
read more
17 March 2011
Away from it all on
tiny Paxos
The Greek island of Paxos, an olive-covered dot in the
Ionian Sea an hour’s boat ride from Corfu, is off the
beaten track when it comes to mainstream tourism. During
the high season a pleasure boat or two may call in at
the main port of Gaios for a couple of hours, or hover
in one of the sandy bays of even tinier Anti-Paxos to
let the trippers plunge into the clear turquoise waters,
but for most of the summer little Paxos follows its own
rhythms of life, into which the visitors slip within a
few hours of their arrival ...
read more
7 January 2011
Stunning New Villas Added To Travel A La Carte's
Programme On Paxos
The
island of Paxos is the heart of Greek island specialist
Travel à la carte’s programme and for the 2011 season
the company is nearly doubling its number of holiday
villas on this tiny jewel of the Ionian...
read more
26 November 2010
Paxos the pick of
the Greek islands
There are more than 160 inhabited Greek islands and a
good number are holiday destinations. So how do you
choose the one that is right for you? The answer lies
in a combination of factors ranging from beaches and
swimming to local character and food. For many people’s
money, tiny Paxos in the Ionian is the pick of them and
Travel a la carte has some stunning new villas there, in
the village of Loggos...
read more
18 November 2010
Paxos Makes Perfect: Discover Your True
Potential On This Unspoilt Greek Island
Whether you are interested in writing, painting or
photography, or simply want to take some time away from
the rat-race in order to re-focus your life, the tiny
Greek island of Paxos provides the perfect location for
discovering your true potential...
read more
17 November 2010
Paxos: The Ultimate
Greek Island Retreat
The tiny Greek island of Paxos is the ideal location
for a yoga holiday and Paxos Life Activities is
therefore offering two holidays on the island in Summer
2011: ‘Yoga for Life’ and Kundalini Yoga...
read more
8 November 2010
The Greek Island of Paxos:
The Perfect Place to Hone Your Writing Skills
The Greek island of Paxos is the perfect place to
hone your writing skills and Paxos Life Activities has
just launched an expanded programme of Creative Writing
holiday courses there for Summer 2011...
read more
6 November 2010
Paxos: The Perfect
Location for a Painting or Photography Holiday in Greece
The beautiful Greek island of Paxos is the perfect
location for a painting or photography holiday and Paxos
Life Activities is pleased to be offering a number of
such holidays there in Summer 2011...
read more
5 November 2010
Villas with Pools in
beautiful Loggos
Loggos, the smallest of the three coastal villages on
tiny Paxos in the Ionian Sea, is almost the place that
time forgot. Before tourists first discovered Paxos in
the early 1970s, Loggos, consisting of 30 or so
stone-built village houses around a pretty natural
harbour, lived mainly from olives...
read more
1 November 2010
Special Interest Holiday
Operator Launches Details of Summer 2011 Programme in
Greece
Paxos Life Activities further increases its programme of
special interest holidays and courses on the unspoilt
Greek island of Paxos for Summer 2011...
read more
29 October 2010
A New Era in Greek
Holiday Properties
Once upon a time, not a million years ago, the Greek islands were
considered quite a cheap and cheerful destination. Greek
holidays were bucket and spade breaks for families, who
were packed like sardines into the weekly charter
flights from Gatwick and Manchester and tipped out at
the other end, at Corfu, Rhodes or Skiathos airport, for
two weeks in the Mediterranean sun. With the
drachma-sterling exchange rate almost always in
sterling’s favour, the prices at the local tavernas
allowed the family to eat out most evenings and no one
noticed how simple the cooking arrangements were in
their accommodation and that there was no coffee machine
or roasting tin. In those days, a family of five could
eat out, even on a quieter island like Paxos, for £15...
read more
6 August 2010
September ... in the sun
In the old days on Paxos, the Gods sent a
sign to tell you when the high season was over and the
pleasanter days of late summer were to begin. The heat
would build and build through the last two weeks of
August until neither the humans nor the atmosphere could
bear it any more. At which point the sky exploded in
loud thunder claps, bolts of lightning split the sky and
rain poured down in bucketfuls for three or four hours.
Afterwards, miraculously, the air was lighter and
fresher, the heat more temperate, and everyone suddenly
more agreeable and cheerful. September was setting
in... read more
17 July 2010
Escape to the Greek Island of Paxos for a
Late Summer Week of Kundalini Yoga
There are many yoga holidays on offer but special interest holiday
operator, Paxos Life Activities, is one of the few operators to offer
Kundalini yoga...
read more
29 June 2010
Paxos for music lovers or Music for
Paxos lovers
Unbeknownst to many
lovers of classical music on the one hand, and to many lovers of Paxos’s
late summer charms on the other, this idyllic little Greek island an
hour’s boat ride from Corfu has for 25 years been hosting its own
chamber music festival. Each September a small group of the most
talented young musicians from the UK and elsewhere gathers on this
Ionian island paradise to rehearse and perform a short series of
concerts. So if you are thinking of a quiet Greek island holiday after
the August rush, why not arrange a week or two on Paxos to coincide with
this year’s performances on 7, 9 and 11 September?
read more
21 May 2010
Peaceful Paxos
Recent reports from the Greek capital Athens
can be unsettling for anyone thinking of booking a holiday to the Greek
islands. Strikes, demonstrations, the occasional outbreak of violence, the
impression given is of a country in a state of considerable upheaval, if
not chaos. But what is the actual reality, especially on one of the
smaller islands like Paxos? ... read more
21 Mar 2010
Sunday Times:
Holidays for two - for less than £1,000
You and your loved one. A romantic bolt hole. Warm sunshine and cool,
clear water. Change from a grand. Yes, it is possible...
read more
9 Mar 2010
Travel à la carte celebrates 25 years on
Paxos
Thirty years old as a company, Travel à la carte this year marks 25
years of bringing holidaymakers to the Ionian island of Paxos. Those 25
years have seen many changes in the holiday business but, happily, very
few on Paxos itself... read more
20 Feb 2010
Paxos à la carte offers the pick of Paxos
Paxos
à la carte is what the name indicates, the freedom to arrange your
holiday to the perfect Greek island destination of Paxos as you like...
read more
15 Feb 2010
An old-fashioned Paxos Beach Villa
Not every villa on the Greek islands needs a swimming pool. If you
can stay at a beach villa as close to the sea as Villa Gallikos on
Paxos, neither you nor your children will miss a pool...
read more
15 Feb 2010
Flexible Sailing
Holidays from Corfu and Paxos
It is not usually possible to charter a yacht for less than a week but
special interest holiday operator Paxos Life Activities
offers skippered and bareboat charter for as little as
two days... read
more
9 Feb 2010
A Paxos holiday is the perfect retreat
If you like a proper escape when you are on vacation, you should
consider a holiday on the Greek island of Paxos. Nowhere is quieter or
easier to get around than Paxos and nothing offers more of a contrast to
the hurly burly of your daily life back home than a Paxos holiday...
read more
6 Feb 2010
Nothing compares to a Greek island
holiday
The Greek islands remain uncharted territory for many people but you
should give them a try. A Greek island holiday can be the most relaxing
break you’ve had in years... read more
2 Feb 2010
The perfect Paxos Beach Villa
A beach villa close to tavernas and a shop or two is what many people
seek for their Greek island holiday. Villa Paradisos on the tiny Ionian
island of Paxos ticks all the right boxes...
read more
28 Jan 2010
Paxos Villas Just A Short Walk From The
Beach
More and more holidaymakers to the Greek islands are looking to avoid
using a car during their holiday. Travel a la carte has a large number
of villas on Paxos near enough to the beach to allow them to do just
that... read more
16 Jan 2010
A New Generation of Holidays in the
Greek Islands
With the increasing number of both scheduled and charter flights to the
Greek Islands, and the advent of a generation of travellers increasingly
more confident about making their own holiday arrangements, many tour
operators are now offering ‘accommodation only’ options and more
flexible rental periods and changeover days. However, few, if any, can
offer the same degree of flexibility and range of options as specialist
operator Travel à la carte, which is now also able to offer special
interest holiday courses, and skippered and bareboat yacht charter
add-ons for as little as two days...
read more
4
Jan 2010
Self-Development
Courses in Greece
The Greek island of Paxos is a really beautiful island
and, with its unrushed pace of life, it provides the
ideal environment for anyone who wants to stand back,
take a calm, objective look at their life and draw up a
plan for achieving more of the things they really want.
Special interest holiday operator, Paxos Life
Activities, is therefore pleased to be offering a
self-development workshop on Paxos in Summer 2010...
read more
19 Dec 2009
Paxos 2010: The Ideal Opportunity to
Acquire New Skills and at the Same Time Have a Wonderful Holiday
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to paint, to take really
good pictures, or perhaps to improve your writing
skills, then visit the Greek island of Paxos in Summer
2010. There, special interest holiday operator, Paxos
Life Activities is offering a range of holiday courses
that will enable you to acquire any of these skills and
at the same time have a wonderful holiday...
read more
8 Dec 2009
Holidays for Single Travellers in the
Greek Islands
Special
interest holiday operator Paxos Life Activities has just launched its
Summer 2010 programme of holidays and courses in Greece and, although
the holidays are not aimed specifically at single travellers, they are
ideal for anyone travelling alone who wishes to spend their time in the
company of a group of like-minded people....
read more
3 Dec 2009
Paxos: An Inspirational Location for
Painting
and Photography Holidays in Greece
For
anyone looking for a painting or photography holiday in Greece, there
can be no location more inspirational than the tiny island of Paxos,
where special interest holiday operator Paxos Life Activities has just
launched its programme of holidays and courses for Summer 2010...
read more
27 Nov 2009
More of Paxos in 2010
Specialist villa holiday company
Travel
à
la carte’s
expansion for 2010 concentrates on
tiny
Paxos, a haven of tranquillity in the Ionian Sea an hour’s boat ride
from Corfu...
read more
27 Nov 2009
Paxos:
The
Ultimate Greek Island for a Yoga Holiday
The
tiny Greek island of Paxos provides a true haven of tranquillity for
anyone wanting to take some time out of the rat-race and simply relax...
read more
25 Nov 2009
Creative Writing Courses in Greece
The
Greek island of Paxos is a really beautiful island which provides the
ideal environment for anyone interested in the creative arts to tap into
its peace and beauty and discover their true potential...
read more
23 Nov 2009
Paxos:
The
Ultimate Holiday Destination for Writers, Artists..... And Everyone
Whether you are interested in writing, painting, photography, or simply
want to escape from the rat race and relax, the tiny Greek island of
Paxos provides the ultimate holiday destination...
read more
20 Nov 2009
Special Interest
Holiday Operator
Launches
Summer 2010 Programme
Special interest holiday operator Paxos Life Activities has just
launched details of its Summer 2010 programme and is now taking bookings
for all holidays and courses in Greece...
read more
11 Aug 2009
Special Interest Holiday Operator Launches
Details of Provisional Programme for Summer 2010
Special interest holiday
operator Paxos Life Activities has just launched details of its
provisional programme for Summer 2010...
read more
8 Aug 2009
September... in the Sun
It’s true, in England the rain
can start in August, like this year, but September’s the time we think
of as the beginning of autumn proper: leaves turning colour and starting
to fall, temperatures on the way down, clouds banking in the sky and the
winds blowing cooler and wetter... read more
6 Aug 2009
Flexible Sailing Holidays in the Greek
Islands
No visitor to the Greek islands
can help but notice the numerous elegant yachts anchored offshore or
alongside quayside tavernas, and many will look at them with envy and
perhaps also a certain degree of curiosity, and wish that just for once
they could share in this experience...
read more
16 July 2009
Painting and Photography
Holidays in Greece
Paxos
is a truly beautiful island just nine miles south of Corfu. Very little
has changed there in recent years and, with its picturesque simplicity
and easy pace of life, it could not be more different from its larger
and better known neighbour...
read more
16 July 2009
Paxos Makes Perfect: Discover Your True
Potential on this Tiny Greek Island
Whether
you are interested in writing, painting or photography, the tiny Greek
island of Paxos provides the ideal location for discovering your true
potential... read more
19 March 2009
Undiscovered Greece – the island of Paxos
Is it Paxos or Poros or Paros? It’s Paxos.
If you are looking for the simplicity of the old Greece for your
holidays – village life, family run tavernas, quiet beaches and
picturesque surroundings – take it from us, it’s Paxos...
read more
16 March 2009
Undiscovered Greece – the island of Symi
Lovers of holidays to the Greek islands each have their favourite. Symi?
Well, there’s been no Mamma Mia yet on Symi but to many Greek island
enthusiasts it’s right up there in the top ten holiday destinations...
read more
News Centre Contact: Chris Griffiths
email:
chris@travelalacarte.co.uk
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