Trying to find information on houses on the Greek mainland was about as painful an experience as pulling out your teeth with a pair of pliers, or it was until I found your website. This was in a different class to anything I had found beforehand. It looked very professional, contained all the relevant information, and gave me a good feeling about the accommodation even before we had stayed there. And my instincts were proved correct following a fantastic 13 day stay.  The comments in the guest book paint an accurate picture and I can only add to them by saying that it certainly has the 'wow' factor and I would recommend this place to anybody. Hi JANE. I would like to thank you Again for your suggestion to stay in the Heraklion apartment in Athens, it was perfect, comfortable, clean and convenient!  Jacqui Parsons, London England.

Jane, I just wanted to send you a short note to thank you very much for arranging for Vayias Nicolaides to lead our tour of Athens on May 5th, 2008.  He was a wonderful guide and we enjoyed our day tremendously.  He knew exactly where to drop us and when to pick us up and was very informative on the history and sites we were able to see in our short time in Athens . We enjoyed being able to get to Corinth too and he had us back to the boat in plenty of time. Thank you again. We will make sure to recommend you and your company to our friends and comrades who are thinking of visiting Greece . Sincerely, Janet & Grant jstarling@rogers.com

Hi Jane.. Jerry and I enjoyed our tour yesterday very much.. V (can't spell his name) was so very well informed and wonderful command of English.. a very nice man.. We appreciated all he did.. thank you again.. Best wishes.. Linda and Jerry Katz  Linda Katz lodell59@yahoo.com

Dear Jane and Nicholas,  I am sorry for not writing you a personal letter as I did not have your personal address.  I just wanted you to know what an enjoyable trip Mary Ann , Cathy and I had with you.  Thank you for all of your hard work in making our accommodations  meet OUR needs.  Jane thank you for making last minute reservations to  Athens and getting us where we needed to go.  Nicholas, thank you for all of your hard work and making our trip a memorable one!!  The trip will be one we will never forget...the food, the wine, the spectacular scenery and above all the wonderful people along the way. Jane, I just love my pin, and have gotten so many compliments. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.  We hope we will see you again soon.  If you get to the US , please don't hesitate to call us.. I just don't think we could ever return the hospitality. Thank you again.  We refer your company to everyone we talk to that want to travel to Greece .  I know you are so proud of what you provide for so many people.
                                    Thanks again, Lisa Williams Asilstone@aol.com

We found your service to be excellent and will recommend your company to friends. We appreciate the prompt pick-ups as scheduled. The accommodations at Meteora were fantastic. Nicolas was a wonderful host. Many thanks, Marsha Hawk marshahawk@gmail.com

We just got back from our trip and wanted to thank you so much for such a wonderful time.  Christos was a wonderful driver and provided us with a lot of information and arranged great guides at the acropolis and in Delphi .  I would certainly recommend your company to anyone who is going to come the Greece .  We were thrilled not to be with those huge bus tours and kept saying how grateful we were that we had found you.  Thank you again for helping us to make our family vacation one of the best ever. Sincerely, Renae Jacobs rjacobs@davidanson.com

Jane, Yasu. I wanted to write to you and tell you what a wonderful time we had with Kostas. We enjoyed our day with him. Thank you very much for your wonderful service. My son even bought a jersey of Kostas' favorite football team(the club team of Athens). Please convey my thanks to Kostas. Kostas was just terrific. His english was great......his driving was great.....and his personal skills are great. John M. Remmers jmr@cmhlaw.comn

Dear Jane, greetings from Singapore. As for Nikos, we enjoyed his company very much. He was a very safe driver and he kept his SUV very clean throughout. In fact, we observed that most cars were very dusty. He had a good knowledge of the key sights and we commend him for his recommendations on where to eat. We enjoyed every meal he recommended. We also enjoyed the country roads he took as the views were fabulous. Hong Sun Wong wonghs68@hotmail.com

Dear Friends, We want to let you know that both tours you arranged for us -- Katakolon/ Olympia and Athens -- were excellent. Takis and Tony both went way beyond the call of duty to provide exactly the kind of experience we were hoping to get. My friend Coralie De Marco of CDM Travel in Melbourne Australia recommended you and I have already thanked her for the contact. I would like to add a link to you from my own page: http://www.initaly.com/info/walking.htm and a few other such as: http://www.trip-to-europe.com/   I would be grateful if you would add a link to my tours (http://www.initaly.com/info/walking.htm) from your site. Thanks again for two very special days!

Just wanted to say thanks again to Nicolas and Jane - Jane for getting us set up with the hotels along our stay in mainland Greece, Nic for his excellent driving and information along the trip. We were picked up by Nic at the Athens airport and he helped us get our copious luggage into his Mercedes (Vito?) van, and we set out on our journey to Delphi, Olympia, and back to Athens over the next several days. It was a great trip, Nic has a great selection of cafes and tavernas to choose from along the way, the hotel selection was great, and we had absolutely no complaints. The route selections he drove were scenic and largely relaxing (outside of a few hairpin turns in the mountains that Nic negotiated wonderfully!) After the usual ice-breaking period, we found Nic to be professional, but humorous, and we couldn't have found a better choice for the trip. Thanks again to everybody at www.Greece-Private.com 
Butch (Butch, Linda, Dallas, Erica, Lizzie) Leitz  leitz@ButchLeitzPhotography.com Here's a link to some photos I took on our recent trip with Nicolas. This is only a handful of the many I took, but a few I thought Nic might enjoy (including a couple of my family he took)  http://www.butchleitzphotography.com/mainland.greece/index.htm  Butch Leitz.

Jane, I wanted to write and tell you what a wonderful time we had on our tour with Christos.  He was very knowledgeable about everything.  His driving skills were excellent, and he knew his way around so well that we were able to see everything that we wanted and still have time remaining. I would highly recommend both your service and Christos to anyone that we know that is coming to Athens (And also tell them to use the link on your web site for a tour of Santorini) Thank you again for making our experience in Athens a memorable one. Stuart and Christina Neft  neftist@aol.com  

Hello I just wanted to say how pleased I am with your service and Christos.  Christos made our tour much more rich and interesting.  He could not have been more pleasant or knowledgeable.  This was our one trip to Greece and I feel blessed to have our experience work out so sweetly. God Bless, Tammy Haskins  tamilyn5634@gmail.com

Hello. We just wanted to extend a sincere thank you to Christos and Greece private taxi!  We had a fantastic day together in Athens.  Christos greeted us at our cruise terminal and kindly showed us all around Athens the entire day!  He was so kind  and polite he felt like family!  We could never have had this good of day without your tour!   When we got back on our ship that night all of our friends were jealous of our day! We will, and have already recommended your service! Thanks again. Yiasas! Chris and Angela Wilson, Vista, CA houseof5@cox.net

I am writing to say how much we enjoyed our tour with Christos on May 28^th.  As the weather was very rainy that day, we did not go to Cape Sounion as planned.  Instead he drove us all around Athens and we were able to visit the National Museum.  I had been in Athens for a week in June 1990 so it was interesting to me to see how the city had changed in 17 years.  It was nice to have a private driver with the flexibility to change our plans based on the weather and to get such a nice tour of the city. Thanks, Alice Gander alice@alicegander.com

Hi Nikolaos, I wanted to drop a quick note to thank you again for all your time and efforts to make my family's vacation in Greece so fun and memorable. Your knowledge, company, and choices were all outstanding; and I would unhesitatingly recommend you and your service to anyone wishing to tour Greece. You made it possible (and enjoyable) to cover more of Greece, in less time, than I would have believed. Again, thank you very much.-- Vojin  vdvorak@mediacy.com

Dear Nicolas: A quick note of thanks.  I just returned home to Montreal, Canada after 6 weeks away in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. A highlight of our trip was most definitely Athens, a city of beauty and style so unlike any other.  I look forward to returning for a  week long stay in 2008. The trip to Athens was highlighted by such a charming, knowledgeable and welcoming guide – Christos.  He got us access to places we did not think we could get into (like the Stadium).  He was simply the best guide we had in our 6 weeks and multiple guides. Greece Taxi is highly recommended to any traveler seeking a private guide and private, comfortable transport. Many thanks for such a great service. Warmest regards, Toby Simkin  TobyS@TobySimkin.com

Hello Nicolas, At the moment  we are still enjoying our 15-day trip in Greece - June /July 2006. 
For this reason we want gratefully to thank you for the tour that you had prepared for us and for guiding us through Greece. Greece is a splendid country. It was beautiful travelling along the Peloponnesus region, via Patra  to Delphi, Meteora with the convents, via the altitude ways until Vergina, (… and all the displacements, stops, meals, hotels, museum visits between).  Each day something about history, culture and entertainment. You taught us a lot about nature, agriculture, fauna and flora. The landscape was very varied. The choice of hotels was good, the meals super!!!
The car was comfortable, you are a good and safe driver (don’t forget the matches for the little firework to break through the silence).  There was a good understanding and you cared about us. Also warm thanks to Christos who took care of us in the airport, on arrival and departure, and who brought us to Nafplion to start our visit in Greece and accompanied us the last two days of Meteora back into Athens. We did well by visiting Athens at the end of our trip. It seemed apotheosis for us, however.  We crossed the city by foot (thanks to a big strike that day) but we enjoyed it.  We visited the Acropolis and the entire surrounding area. Many thanks to Christos who spent the last day with us, driving around and who brought us to the highest top of Athens. We saw the city of Athens, superb white marble under a radiating sun.  It was monumental. Last but not least we want to thank Jane, your wife, working behind the baffles, who follows you and organizes everything from home, who had to miss you these 14 days whereas we enjoyed  and had pleasure, and we admire her that she, even alone, regulated the movement out from Athens to Nafplion. Cordial thanks.
We hope we will see you once more. Paul en Marleen Delanghe pauldelanghe@skynet.be  Leo en Eliane Lourdon    leolourdon@skynet.be  Pol en Frieda Laenen paullaenen@hotmail.com

Small minus. Just one thing, we, Belgian people like to start earlier in de morning, for example in Delphi, it was perhaps better to start earlier that day, because there were so many people.  But no mind, when we are 09.30 in the morning, we know we have to start our activities and make the link with You, our good Greek friend end guide Nicolas. 

Dear Niko, Thank you so much for our wonderful week touring Greece.  We've never had a family vacation that was as much fun for us as it was for the kids... and such an awesome education for all of us! The mini-bus was perfect for the 5 of us - so nice not to have to drive, or be stuck on one of those big tour buses!  Being able to go on smaller roads and places where most of the tourist don't see made us feel like we were seeing the real Greece - and it was great to have someone who loves their country, and its history, to show it to us. It was the best family vacation we've ever had - no stress for us, lots of fun, great food and beautiful places.....thank you !!!  With fond regards, Michael, Jo, Michael, Tim and Annabelle Cousins/ Norway michaelc@broadpark.no

As pensioners it is not always easy to travel but Nick made our trip to Greece a dream. He drove and guided us (He knows the history of Ancient and modern Greece very well) around the mainland of Greece - which is all mountains, he booked the best value accommodation  A' class hotels and mansions in the country ( which believe me are not easy to find) and he always chose the best restaurants and taverns for lunch and meals with great food and reasonable prices. We could start the day at the times we wanted and spend as long we wanted at each site, we were not rushed as we would have been if we had gone by coach. Nick is a very good photographer and helped us to take the best shots. We came once and we plan to visit again.  Totally recommended. Anne Baxter - England:  annieb@freenetname.co.uk  

Happy 2007 - New Year Jane. I wanted to send you our thanks for such a WONDERFUL visit to Greece. We are telling everyone we know about Christos and Nicolas! We promised to send them pictures of the LARGE fish we passed en route to Delphi. So, I have attached that picture along with two of us from their tours! If you ever need someone  to write a recommendation for your business, please let us know. We hope that your mother and sister returned safely to English. It was such a pleasure to meet them and your two children.  I know you will be most happy once you are settled in your new beautiful house! Cheers and thank you again! Nancy and Scott Laidlaw slaidlaw@houston.rr.com

Dear Niko, I am writing to you in the hope that you will share my comments with persons wishing a reference for your tours of Greece. You may duplicate and distribute the following as you may find appropriate.
“We were a group of four American experienced travelers but none of us had ever visited Greece before May of 2005.  In setting up our tour we put ourselves in Nicolas’ hands for ten days and could not have been more pleased. In consultation with us he planned our itinerary, selected hotels, places to eat and sites to visit. His careful work and consideration resulted in a simply outstanding vacation. We were impressed with Nicolas’ knowledge of Greece from both a historical and current day perspective. He knows a great deal and he is articulate even to the extent of appreciating the subtle nuances of English. We toured in his Mercedes Benz van and felt safe with his driving habits even as we wound through small roads up and down mountainsides and through villages that could barely accommodate a single car. One member of our group had some special needs in terms of not being able to walk well and so Nicolas took special attention to finding ways that she could enjoy the places that were unreachable for her by foot. Time and space do not allow my sharing with you my thoughts about all the magnificent ancient sites we visited but I will say they were even more spectacular than I remembered from the many texts and photographs I have seen.
In making our decision to tour with Nicolas as opposed to taking a cruise or a tour bus we decided that having a personal and knowledgeable person leading us and staying in smaller villages and eating the foods that the people of Greece eat would be better than being on a large ship and partaking in the 24 hour buffets of mostly American food or stopping at restaurants that could accommodate large buses. As the trip concluded we congratulated each other on making a wise decision. Nicolas is a very talented individual and you must insist that as part of your tour he shows you his photographs of a Greece that you can’t possibly see in one tour. He has captured the seasons and the whole country of beautiful scenery. He also does some fine drawings and again we urge you to ask him to show you some of his artwork.
We found Nicolas to be completely reliable, considerate, well spoken and very wholesome. If we plan to return to Greece to see other parts of this wonderful country, as we may well do, we would have no reservation at all about reengaging him.”
Niko, the Morrison’s and the Ringel’s appreciate all the many ways in which you made our visit to Greece so special. As I promised I have just purchased a copy of Why People Believe Weird Things (remember the book that talked about religion and science and aliens visiting earth?) and I wish to send it to you as a gift. Please give me a good mailing address so that I can get the material to you. I am also including some photographs that I took of Greece and I want you to appreciate that you have real competition in the field of photography. Your work is great and my work is…(I’ll let you fill in the correct adjectives). If you would like to use some of these photographs on your website, you may do so. The only restriction is that if the photograph wins a national prize you will have to acknowledge my artistic mastery. Best regards to Jane. Robert L. Ringel, Professor of Audiology & Speech Sciences, Donald S. Powers Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907  Tel: (765) 494-7744 - Fax:  (765) 494-0771 -E-mail:  rringel@purdue.edu

Dear Nicholas, Jinny and I wish to thank you for a memorable five day trip  in Greece.  We were impressed with your professionalism both in driving and relating the history of your land.  It is difficult to say what part was most memorable. I particularly enjoyed Meteora, and if you get to it, would welcome a CD or Internet transmission of some of the pictures you took. Of particular interest are those of the monks. If anyone needs a reference feel free to use our name. nloomis@pol.net or nloomis@rochester.rr.com
I spoke to our local wood stove expert.   He had nothing but promotional material for particular stoves or fireplaces. I did however go onto "Goggle", and "Ask Jeeves" and entered, " Heating with Wood", and did get a lot of interesting material. It is better sorted by you than me.  A couple sites, particularly from Canada, looked excellent. If there is anything specific I can research for you let me know. Your method of house construction should be reviewed by builders in Florida and our Gulf Coast. Yours appears to me, hurricane proof. Best regards to you, your father and family.  If you ever contemplate a trip to the  US, we are 300 miles from New York City, and 120  mi. from Toronto. Norman R. Loomis, MD 7736 Tamarack Ln - Ontario, NY, USA  14519 Tel: 315-524-6501

Nikolas, Hello Thank you for the escort service you provided us with. We returned home just fine, but it took our luggage 3 days to make it home. They decided to tour Paris without us! Please look at this page  http://thetells0.tripod.com/arrival.html   Ron is desperately trying to get me to use the IBM tools to do these pages, but it takes practice. I hope to add to these and maybe do more sophisticated work on them later. Kathy Tell  

Hi, We just want to thank you for a wonderful tour. We really appreciated all of your knowledge and time.  I have given your name out to a Judy Norton.. She may contact you.  I will keep your email for future  reference.  Here is my website…. www.cruisesinc.com/csocol, per your request.  Once again, many thanks for our tour of Delphi.  By the way, the restaurant at the Plaka your recommended was excellent….Sincerely, Carol Socol.

Dear Nicola, Thanks for a great trip. We're trying hard to adjust to being home. We've been very busy looking at all the slides Allen took, reminiscing, and trying to hold on to the wonderful memories. We even went to a Greek festival at a local church hoping to have some of that wonderful food, but even though it was named the same ie. mousaka etc. it wasn't as good as all those wonderful tavernas you took us to. I hope Chris relayed my messages about the islands and the Villa brochure. I wanted to call Jane and give her my impressions, but Chris discouraged me from doing that saying he would tell you himself. We hope you have a wonderful vacation. You certainly deserve it. Thanks again for a wonderful experience in Greece. P.S.> I've given your name to a number of people. Lois and Allen Phipps apphipps@earthlink.net

Nickolas, Tom and I want to thank you so much for a delightful 3 days in the Peloponnesus region with you. Your history lessons made the sights we saw that much more interesting. And, eating in authentic Greek restaurants with very good home made food was terrific. Tom and I can't get enough of those Greek salads. Too bad our tomatoes don't taste like yours. We loved riding in the comfort of your Mercedes - you are a careful and considerate driver. The two nights that we spent in the Pension were wonderful.  Nafplion is such a charming village and the location of the Pension, overlooking the village, was perfect. Rereading your website makes me realize how good it is. You know how we talked about reading about something, then seeing it, then reading it again making it all so much clearer.
We congratulate Greece on winning the European championship in Soccer.  That makes both of us winners since our Basketball team in Michigan won the National title, too. We hope you have a good summer with your Olympic activities. Thanks again so much for enhancing our Greek adventure. Tom and Judy Lewis  tjlewis415@charter.net