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Dopios.com yeni yerler keşfetmenizi kolaylaştırmak için, turistler ile seyahat edilen bölgede yaşayan halkı buluşturan ve birbirine bağlayan devrim niteliğinde bir seyahat topluluğu.

Eğer farklı ve adrenalin dolu bir yürüyüş aktivitesine katılmak istiyorsanız, Dopios bu aktiviteye katılmak isteyen insanlarla, o bölgede yaşayan yerel insanları birbiri ile buluşturuyor. Zarif tasarlanmış…

John Cooney, joined dopios just 3 months ago and is a must-meet local in London. He loves showing around London to his friends and travelers and he knows the best places around. Here's a small taste of a cool local.

1. How did you get to know about dopios?

  I was spending time with my flatmate and some of his Italian friends on the south bank of the Thames, on a Saturday in late October 2013. We had briefly stopped by 'The Old Thameside Inn', a riverside pub near London Bridge, beside the replica of Francis Drake's ship 'The Golden Hinde'. I was telling the group about the City of London's skyscrapers (and their nicknames), which were visible directly across the river from where we were standing. There was a couple sitting in front of us on the terrace - Suddenly, the guy turned around and handed me a Dopios-branded sticker with the explanation: 'this is for people like you'. My response was something like '...and what kind of person am I, exactly?!' and he briefly explained the concept of Dopios. I kept the sticker and signed up to the website a few days later!

  2. What's your top 3 favorite spots in London and why?

Chiswick House & Gardens (http://www.chgt.org.uk/) - A beautiful villa built by Lord Burlington in the 18th century in west London. It's in the Classical style, inspired by Palladio and Inigo Jones and is surrounded by landscaped gardens by William Kent, which are widely regarded as some of the most influential, in terms of the English landscape movement. I've only just learned that the gardens apparently inspired the current layout of New York's Central Park! I first visited this in 2011 during Open House London, a festival which makes 800+ buildings accessible to the public, free of charge, during the third weekend of September every year. This event is one of the highlights of my London calendar and I have visited over 40 buildings in my three years of attending (and volunteering). (http://www.londonopenhouse.org/)

Greenwich (http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/) - Steeped in Royal and Naval history, this lovely suburb of London is home to the National Maritime Museum, the Royal Observatory (famous for Greenwich Mean Time / GMT), the Old Royal Naval College, a delightful covered market and the restored Cutty Sark tea clipper. There's a place in Greenwich Park called 'One Tree Hill' where you can observe London from where Queen Elizabeth I sat and plotted her empire back in the 16th century!

Richmond (http://www.visitrichmond.co.uk/) - This is one of the most desirable places to live in suburban London - and it's easy to see why! It has the largest of the eight Royal Parks which is home to thousands of deer. The view from King Henry's Mound is one of eight 'strategic views' of St. Paul's Cathedral, which are protected from the building of anything which might obstruct the view. The River Thames skirts Richmond village to the west, and in Autumn the colours of the valley beyond are absolutely glorious!

  3. What's the best thing you discovered in London when moving there?

  Two things instantly come to mind:

The first is the 6th floor rooftop of the One New Change shopping centre beside St. Paul's, which offers an incredible free view of London, dominated by the dome of the Cathedral. I was brought here in my first few days in London.

In addition, there's a lot to be said for walking around central London - In my first few days here, I walked approximately 5 miles from Wapping to Bond Street - It really helped me to get to know the city in those early days, something which travelling the same route on the tube could have never matched.

  4. Must-see events in London 

  The following are three things that I'm really looking forward to over the coming six weeks:

  Exhibition: 'Sensing Spaces - Architecture Reimagined' at the Royal Academy, Piccadilly - Until April 6th. This exhibition seeks to redefine the way we think about and engage with architecture, through the provision of seven new installations by a variety of established and emerging architects. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/sensingspaces/

Exhibition: 'Vikings: Life and Legend' at the British Museum, Holborn - March 6th - June 22nd.

The first major exhibition in the newly-built Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery of the British Museum - This promises to be a blockbuster, possibly even more so than the highly successful ' Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum' was last Summer!

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Νέοι άνθρωποι, νέες τεχνολογίες, νέες ιδέες που αξίζουν εκατομμύρια και εξάγονται από την Ελλάδα σε καιρό κρίσης.

Η εκπομπή «360°» και η Σοφία Παπαϊωάννου την Τρίτη 28 Ιανουαρίου στις 23:45 πραγματοποιούν ένα οδοιπορικό στον κόσμο των επιτυχημένων start ups, των νέων επιχειρήσεων που βασίστηκαν σε μία ιδέα με ελάχιστο κόστος και κατάφεραν να επεκτείνουν τις δραστηριότητές τους εκτός των ελληνικών συνόρων.

Οι βασικοί συντελεστές των επιχειρήσεων αυτών εξηγούν στην κάμερα της εκπομπής τη συνταγή της επιτυχίας τους και τα μυστικά πίσω από τις ιδέες τους.

  Ακόμη, οι «360°» συναντούν τον άνθρωπο, ο οποίος βραβεύθηκε ως «Επιχειρηματίας του 2013». Η ιδέα του κέρδισε γρήγορα επιχειρηματικό έδαφος και  έτσι η εταιρεία του βρέθηκε ανάμεσα στις πέντε καλύτερες του πλανήτη, στον τομέα του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ.

Επίσης, η εκπομπή συνομιλεί με τον άνθρωπο που ετοιμάζεται να επενδύσει 10 εκατομμύρια ευρώ σε ελληνικές start ups αλλά και με νέους επιχειρηματίες που τόλμησαν να ποντάρουν στην καινοτομία και κέρδισαν στην Ελλάδα της κρίσης.

In 1838, Queen Amalia, wife to Greece’s first king, Otto of Bavaria, commissioned the creation of a garden surrounding the Royal Palace. The garden was designed by the German agronomist Frederick Schmidt.

Eleni climbing on an ombu tree (Phytolacca dioica), a species native to the Pampa of South America.

 Schmidt imported more than 500 species of plants and a variety of animals including peacocks, ducks, and turtles to enrich the garden’s flora and fauna. The queen was happy to receive trees for her garden as gifts; the Empress of Brazil and the Sultan of Egypt sent palm trees while the municipality of Sparta offered orange trees for the queen’s orangery, even a weeping willow from Napoleon’s tomb on Saint Helena Island made it’s may to Athens.

The most ornate of the garden’s fountains

 Eleni Pylarinou our guide to the Garden’s secrets has been a volunteer for a WWF project recording the park’s rich flora and fauna and she knows the Garden as the back of her hand.  Along with Eleni we toured the hard to find places that most people don't ever get to see. Our guide showed us just how full of history and natural beauty the National Garden really is. 

The Garden also encloses some ancient ruins, capitals, bas reliefs and freezes originating from roman buildings are scattered all over the park. A mosaic of a roman villa was covered with a pergola and turned by the Queen into a banquet hall.

The roman villa’s mosaic floor

Bonus stop: the Garden’s small zoo to get acquainted with the ducks, the peacocks and the wild goats with their large curved horns. And finally there is also the option to stop for coffee and dessert at the parks’ café under the shade of a flowery pergola.

At the end of our two hours, feet were sore and brains were full, but I knew I had a great tour, and Eleni was responsible for that... as well as the initial developers and planners who had the foresight to see, all those years ago, that a beautiful oasis was needed smack dab in the middle of the concrete jungle.