My son is planning a trip across Europe/the Balkans this summer & has sorted his train journeys & times for everywhere except Greece. For some reason Greece don't appear to publish timetables anywhere & their website gives a weird phone no. that doesn't connect with or without code for Greece.

Avy ideas????

At a rough guess, with all the strikes going on there at the moment, "timetable" might be far too strong a word to use in conjunction with their railways....

The best journeys are those for which you have done little planning...

Tell your son to just start traveling in the right direction and sort things out on the way.... its much more fun!

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Tell your son to just start traveling in the right direction and sort things out on the way.... its much more fun!

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the greek transport system runs on GMT (greek maybe time) so it really isn't worth them publishing anything. its just setting themselves up for failure.

You're all cheating & have failed miserably so far
Come on I know you can do better than this - has this Q beaten the Locost massif????

Hmmm,

I might be able to help.

http://www.trainose.com/?lang=en


Edited to say


That is a crap website. It is only the first page in English



[Edited on 23/6/10 by l0rd]

U2U me what you need. Might be more help tomorrow though

You need to be able to translate the town names into greek..

http://www.trainose.com/content/wizards

Hellenic Railways Organization (O.S.E.):

•Call 1440 for pre-recorded information giving train departures (domestic and Athens-Thessaloniki)
•Call 1110 for telephone reservations for passengers from Attica to Thessaloniki
•O.S.E. Central Information 1-3 Karolou St, Athens, Tel: +30 210 5297777
•Thessaloniki Railway Station. +30 2310 517517 - 8,
Off: 4 Trips, 18 Aristotelous St, Tel: +30 2310 598120
•Patras: Railway Station. +30 2610 639108 - 9
•Larisa Railway Station. +30 2410 236250
Off: 3 Trips, 37 Papakyriazi St, Tel: +30 2410 590239
•Volos Railway Station. +30 24210 24056
Off: 8 Trips, 17 Iasonas St, Tel: +30 24210 28555
•For special information and assistance for persons with special needs , call: +30 210 5298838 (for Athens) and +30 2410 590263 (for Larisa). There are competent O.S.E. staff at the Athens and Larisa Railway Stations to assist persons with special needs who are traveling by train.
•For information on foreign bus routes, call: +30 210 5298739 - 40, +30 210 5135768 - 9

[Edited on 23/6/10 by stevebubs]

above is from www.visitgreece.gr

http://gogreece.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&zTi=1&sdn=gogreece&cdn=travel&tm=9&gps=270_573_1276_823&f=00&tt=14&bt=1& amp;bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.athensguide.com/schedules/trains.html

You know what I wanted to do was get a big map of europe, then every morning work out how far I can go in a day, draw the circle and pick a direction.

A few years ago, before we had the internet, we used to just head off somewhere and made it up as we went along, I travelled all over Asia for months at a time with no real idea where I would be going next.

Now we all (including me) seem to need to be able to organise everything down to the very last detail before we step out of the country. I for one get completely obsessed with Trip Advisor before I book anything.

Shame really, some of the best experiences of my life have come from a complete lack of planning

Brilliant guys - I knew you couldn't be beaten!