06-04-2008, 12:04 AM
Quote:It is good to start preparing now, if you want the event to happen in 2011!
If you see the hassle to get or to maintain an operation permission for a
common boat, a souvlaki place or a simple one-man small shop, -you can
imagine what is lying ahead of you to organize an event of this size,
especially if it is something that happens the first time in Greece and
touches one of their most sensitive nerves.
This from a connection at the Ministry of Culture. Not my source to burn, so to speak.
I contacted Matt Barrett. He runs a website that does a superb job of providing tourist info for UK and Canadian tourists going to Greece.[url:130l94jr]http://www.greektravel.com/[/url] He showed immediate enthusiasm and is trying to connect me/us to the government. I believe that his approach--which is to contact folks who make money on the tourist trade and use them to leverage the government--is the appropriate one. As he lives half the year in Athens and has a Greek wife, his knowledge base is far, far greater than mine.
If the idea were to catch the eye of the Greek government, they might do the footwork themselves, instead of making reenactors do the work. Governments can be persnickety, but the nice thing is that once they say they will do a thing, they are not likely to back out--people's careers become involved!
Am I wrong, or did an Australian group go to Greece for 2004? Anyone have anything to say based on that trip?
Qui plus fait, miex vault.
