Podcasts for Greece

You may have your trusty guidebook, but another option for getting information about sites on our tour are podcasts that you can download to your iPod or iPhone.

Podcast: A multimedia digital file (audio or video or both) made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc.

There are all types of podcasts. Some simply provide information, while others may serve as an audio for a walking tour of a site. (I used one at Versailles last trip, it gave a room by room description of all I was seeing. Awesome!) Just listen to several and decide if it is what you are interested in. Then download the ones you want to take with you. Here are some places to start and they are all free:

Five Free Podcasts (from Greek vocabulary to Greek food to an overview of Athens sites)
National Museum of Archealogy in Athens
The Agora, the Acropolis, and Parthenon
The Amateur Traveler (video travel podcasts from all over, scroll and look for ones from Greece - click previous entries at bottom)
A Trip to the Parthenon
Rick Steves Greece (free in iTunes store)
Rick Steves Europe - Athens, Greece (scroll to episode 56, free iTunes store)
Rick Steves Europe - Santorini's Black Sand (scroll to episode 112, free iTunes store)
Rick Steves Europe - Athens' Ancient Acropolis (scroll to episode 138, free iTunes store)
Rick Steves Europe - West Turkey: The Ancient City of Ephesus (scroll to episode 58, free iTunes store)
Acropolis and Parthenon (available free through iTunes store)
Learning Greek (free iTunes store)
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece (iTunes store free)
History of Greece (iTunes store free)
Spirit of Place - Delphi (scroll to episode 30, free iTunes store)