Greece

A volunteer fireman who rushed out to fight the fires in Ippokrateios Politeia, a northern suburb of Athens, has died on Friday.

A bus driver in the city of Patras, West Greece, lost control of his vehicle, leading to several crashes on Saturday night, but fortunately, no injuries were reported. For unknown reasons, but most likely due to a malfunction of its...

Renowned Australian stuntman Robbie Maddison rode his one-of-a-kind, water-going motorcycle in the sea off a Mykonos beach earlier this week. Maddison, whose incredible career has consisted of accomplishing the seemingly impossible, left many in awe when he skipped across the...

A series of new hiking and mountainbiking tours were presented by Greek tourist agencies as part of the "Cities of Alexander the Great" initiative at the Ferien International Tourist Fair in Vienna recently. The agencies also promoted cultural and historically-oriented...

Karditsa is one of Greece’s most successful examples of cities which embraced the culture of bike riding as an alternative to driving a car. Estimates place the number of bicycles in the city at more than 20,000 while Karditsa itself has a...

A motorbike, radiators and kitchen sinks were among the debris recovered from the seabed at a beach in the Greek island of Mykonos by volunteers marking World Environment Day. Volunteer divers of the environmental group 'All For Blue', led by Katerina...

  Quad-bike renters on the cosmopolitan Greek island of Mykonos are flouting a recently-imposed traffic law which bans ATVs from roads. A video has emerged of three tourists riding quad-bikes on the narrow roads of Mykonos. None of the riders are...

A young man from Heraklion has given a new twist to Crete's favorite drink by inventing a motorbike that runs on tsikoudia. K. Iliadis, put tsikoudia -- a distilled, transparent drink made of grapes -- to a new use as...

Mykonos police and port authority are braced for protests on Wednesday as owners of businesses which rent all-terrain vehicles to tourists are blocking the port over a traffic law banning ATVs from the island's roads. In a letter sent to the...

The Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Wednesday introduced 64 new electric bikes as part of a project to have greater presence in Greek cities, according to the Athens News Agency. The new electric bicycles will be distributed to 10 cities and...

Owners and renting companies of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) on the Greek island of Mykonos are threatening to blockade its main port and airport in protest at a government decision to ban them from the roads. ATVs, or quad bikes, are popular...

Dozens of of four-wheel motorbike owners drove through the centre of Athens on Wednesday to protest at a government decision to ban them from the roads. The bikes, also known as all-terrain vehicles, ATVs, or quad-bikes, are popular among tourists...

A wave of dust blown from northern Africa has blanketed the Greek island of Crete, forcing residents to don masks as doctors warn vulnerable people to stay indoors. Blown across by freak weather conditions, the dust has turned Crete into...

While on vacation on the Greek island of Zakynthos, on June 9 Tracie Harrison, a 52-year-old British woman, suffered an accident riding on a quad that has landed her in a coma. The British grandmother was at the beginning of her...

Approximately 100 bikers arrived on Saturday on the island of Lesvos, Greece, from Ayvalık within the framework of the "4th bicycle festival under my pedals" that is held in Izmir. This action aims to strengthen the relations between the bicycle...