Add Halkidiki to Your Greece Travel Plans
By Rose Palmer
For most travelers, a trip to Greece means a history lesson in Athens and beach time at one of the famous islands like Santorini, Mykonos or Naxos. But I was dreaming of seeing Greece off-the-beaten-path where I could easily get both, and I found all that and more in the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece.
Part of Greece’s Central Macedonia region, Halkidiki is a one hour drive from Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki. Getting to Thessaloniki is easy – you can choose to drive about 6 hours on the well-maintained toll highway from Athens, or you can take one of the many short flights from Athens. Thessaloniki also has numerous direct flights from many cities across Europe…
…Once I reached the peninsula, I had five full days to sample the varied delights of this region. Geographically, Mother Nature has given Halkidiki a coastal profile that cannot be missed on a map. The large peninsula has three smaller individual peninsula fingers that jut out into the Aegean so that the whole land mass resembles a fat, distorted letter E. Though similar in shape and size, I found that each of these three peninsula fingers – Mt. Athos, Sithonia, and Kassandra – had its own unique character and culture…
Link: https://www.travelworldmagazine.com/2022/06/add-halkidiki-to-your-greece-travel-plans
