Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Votsalotó
Mosaic of coloured pebbles, found in church
or house courtyards of the Dodecanese and Spétses.
Yperastikó
Long-distance - as in bus services.
EOT
Ellinikós Organismós Tourismoú, National Tourist
Organization.
KKE
Communist Party, unreconstructed.
KTEL
National syndicate of bus companies; also refers to
individual bus stations.
LANE
Lasithiakí Anónymi Navtiliakí Etería (Lasithian
Shipping Company Ltd), based in eastern Crete.
ND
Conservative (Néa Dhimokratía) party.
NEL
Navtiliakí Etería Lésvou (Lesvian Shipping Co).
OSE
Railway corporation.
OTE
Telecommunications company.
PASOK
Socialist party (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement).
SEO
Greek Mountaineering Club, based in Thessaloníki.
SYRIZA
Synaspismós tis Rizospastikís Aristerás (Coalition
of the Radical Left) - alternative, “Euro”-Socialist party.
ACRONYMS
ANEK
Anónymi Navtiliakí Etería Krítis (Shipping Co of
Crete, Ltd), which runs most ferries between Pireás and
Crete, plus many to Italy.
EAM
National Liberation Front, the political force behind
ELAS.
ELAS
Popular Liberation Army, the main Resistance group
during World War II and predecessor of the Communist
army during the civil war.
ELTA
Postal service.
EOS
Greek Mountaineering Federation, based in Athens.
