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

Dear Nicolas, Hope this letter finds you and your family well. I wanted to take a moment to thank you again. We had a very nice tour and I know I couldn't have come close to making it as smooth and organized without you. You're good at what you do, and I'll be very ready to refer others to you.  All in all, a very good trip to Greece, and I appreciate your part in it. Best, Guy Kay.
Dear Niko, Just wanted to drop a line to let you know how much we enjoyed our stay in Greece and offer our appreciation to you for the trip you prepared for us. I feel we saw many places that most tourists to Greece don't get to see and that aspect made it particularly special.  However, I'm fully prepared to return to Greece one day as I felt really comfortable there. I may consider it as a skiing destination one day - never knowing before that skiing did indeed exist there. Enjoy the holiday with your family. Should you ever pass through Canada one day (Toronto in particular), I hope that you will let us know. Regards, Laura Kay.

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

Nick, Thank you for making our trip to Greece a very special memory. It was the icing on the cake of our tour. You are a very knowledgeable caring tour guide. We felt very safe  and confident in your care. Please feel free to use our name as a reference to anyone. We will highly recommend you and I am  sure Ginny will  do the same. Thank you for the pictures of the olive tree and the Easter drawing by your daughter. She seems to be talented. If you come to the U S A please call us.  Best regard to your family. Your Friends, Charles and Jean Boggsc.boggs@home.com

Hi Nicolas. I just wanted to let you know that we're home. A real good trip. As I told Lew, a trip unlike any other I've had. Due to Nikos, thank you sir. How many American tourists can say they've stayed in Arachova? It was one of my favorite evenings. And the drive out along the coast to Sounion with all the beautiful scenery and all the open-air seafood restaurants. (Nicolas, I will try to find the article in Gourmet about this. It would be a good reference to include on your website.) So your copy of my "report" to my travel agent friends follows this e-mail.
  << Part of my report: Nicolas is a real winner! He is personable, intelligent, and thoughtful, he has a great sense of humor. He drives calmly and safely. He is a family man and understands that he has to prove his trustworthiness in order to succeed. He succeeds ,he is absolutely trustworthy. He calls himself a taxi driver, but I think that's a translation problem. He is definitely not a taxi driver in our concept of the term. He's a next-door neighbor, he' s a big brother, he's a friend.>>
Sally Phillips Travel Agent oakst@erols.com

Nikolas, I was looking at our pictures of our brief vacation in Greece and it reminded me about the great time we had, with your assistance. I have referred several friends and family member planning trips to Greece to contact you. I hope you and the family are enjoying the summer. Feel free to use me as a reference. Regards, Bruce Koslow  BNKoslow@aol.com

Dear Nikolas. We arrived home Friday night and felt very fortunate as we were one of only two flights to get to the USA. Thank you for all your help in Athens. The half day tour was excellent and I will recommend you to all our friends and my two travel agents. It is such a pleasure to be so carefully driven in your spotless Mercedes and given so much helpful information on the sites as well as restaurants. You were always on time and waiting in the airport even when we were quite late arriving. You made our stay in Athens easy, interesting and fun. Sincerely thanks from Kath and Chub Engler   kageart@home.com

Hi Nikolas, Thank you for your email. I took the liberty of forwarding a copy to each of the other four ladies that enjoyed your expertise of tour guiding. Thank you for a most memorable Greek adventure! We still talk about our outdoor lunch near the Gulf of Corinth. You did a superb job! It was indeed an incredible experience to see what we saw and did in just one day. You were great! The email address for our tour guide in Istanbul is: altug1@yahoo.com  I wish many great things for you and your family in 2002,  Jerlyn Courtney  Jerlynwc@cs.com

Nicolas, I can not believe it has taken me so long to thank you once again for the fabulous time we had in Greece. As we all gathered together during Christmas, there were many fond memories of our trip to Greece retold! We went through all our pictures together and relived the trip once again! Your knowledge of the land and people, your great suggestions of where to visit, and you as a person, made our experience a once in a lifetime experience. Our family is forever tied together with the bond of traveling together and having such a great experience in your wonderful country. I hope all is going well for you and honestly, if you ever come to the U.S., please contact us, we would love to share some ouzo with you in our home!  My web site is:  http://www.pressenter.com/~sbschils  My site is very simple, not as nice as yours so it will not be very interesting I'm afraid! But, if you ever know anyone who needs help with feeding their horses, let me know! Peace, Sheila, Brian, Jo, Jack, Dean and Kara   sbschils@pressenter.com  
P.S. Dean wanted me to thank you again for going back to the hotel and picking up his crutches that he had forgotten!

Hi Nicolas! Just want the readers of your Web site to know that I cannot praise highly enough the wonderfully informative quality and the naturally friendly spirit of the tour you gave my wife and me while we were in Greece in June of 2002. ... DEAR READER, Nicolas' taxi was most comfortable; his manner of driving always made you feel safe; and his knowledge of the sites we asked him to show us was exceptional (it was even obvious that he had done a lot of extra research before picking us up at our hotel). It was our experience that Nicolas was willing to go out of his way to help us love the country he himself obviously loves so much. He didn't have to take us to out-of-the-way places like Aigosthena and Oedipus road , but he did. Nicolas is a delightfully cordial and relaxed person, and because of this I'm sure you'll relive many fine moments of the tour he gives you. I know we do! Our day with Nicolas between Athens and Delphi remains at the top of the list of our pleasantest times in Greece. Warm regards, Bill Hoar, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA ... hoarw@northern.edu   

Dear Nicolas, Hope you and your family are well. We all want to say again how wonderful you made our visit to Greece, truly unforgettable and we thank you for your kindness and patience. We have sung your praise to many of our friends!!! We loved meeting your wonderful family and came away with the hope we will all meet again. Bermuda is hot and humid and we long for the dry heat of Greece. We are getting back into the routine of daily life and are beginning to think about taking Nicola back up to school in New Hampshire at the end of the month and seeing our new house. I hope your business is doing well and you had some time off with your family. Thanks for the photographs! What a great dinner that was in Nafplion. Please keep in touch (as will we) and hope to see you over our way soon.  Best wishes. Colin, Renate and Nicola  rmuir@ibl.bm

Hi Nikolas,
Well, we are now home and trying to recover from jet lag. We got out of Athens at 11:30 instead of 12 because the air traffic controllers were going on strike at 12. That was a close one! The rest of the trip went very smoothly although Helyn was not well and it was very hard on her. She went to the doctor ... it is not good news at all. Thank you for all your help and patience with her health issues. The trip meant a great deal to them and was the fulfillment of a fifteen year dream for her and I. We really appreciated your service. I don't think Helen could have made the trip on a regular coach tour. You are a good driver and negotiated the traffic and directions with such ease! We would never even think of driving in Athens after seeing the traffic and the mazes of streets. The weeklong tour was fabulous. It far exceeded our expectations and took us to places that we would have missed on our own or with other organized tours. One of the best parts was the flexibility we had to stop when we wanted and to go when we were finished. It really beat having to wait around for fifty other people on a tour bus and I don't think the trip cost any more than if we had gone on a large tour. Thank you for all the help and for sharing so many of your favorite places with us. It was a great trip. We would be glad to recommend you and your service to anyone. Sincerely, Debi and Jim Linker  dlinker@charter.net
PS: you are a good artist and should really keep going with it. Thank you for sharing your work with us.