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Visiting the Heart and Soul of Greece: The Peloponessos
BY AURELIA
During the last five summers, I had visited and spent time on more than a dozen Greek islands, including Crete, Corfu, Mykonos, and...
A Magical Night on the Sacred Island of Delos
By Aurelia
All guide-books and all guides will tell you that no one is allowed, by law, to stay on Delos overnight, but there is...
Kandanoleon Wedding
Excerpt from the novel, Labyrinthine Ways
By Aurelia
“I know that the incident is known as the Kandanoleon Wedding,” Manolis begins, “and that a Cretan man...
The Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Centre: A Unique and Exquisite Sanctuary of Magical Beauty
“We saw a peninsula ending in crescent-shaped beaches …We walked down into a gently sloping world of the utmost magical beauty…thick with magnificent olive...
Benaki Museum and Aria Hotels Announce Renting Options For The Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Centre
By Aurelia
The Benaki Museum and Aria Hotels have formed a partnership to offer renting options at the Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor Centre for the...
FLEGRA PALACE AND FLEGRA BEACH HOTELS
By Aurelia
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine,the sound of the sea. Nothing else."Nikos...
BLUE BAY HOTEL HALKIDIKI: SURROUNDED BY NATURAL BEAUTY
BY AURELIA
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.”
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
BLUE BAY HOTEL
The beauty that Plato...
ALONE ON A GREEK ISLAND WITH THE ROSY-FINGERED DAWN AND THE WINE DARK SEA
And I live here….
fishing with my son
around the small Delos
and the Great Delos
Panagiotis D. Faroupos
Captain
The Quarantine of Delos
By Aurelia, Contributing Editor
As soon as Panagiotis...
IF YOU HAVE JUST ONE DAY IN ATHENS…..
by AURELIA, Contributing Editor
If you have just one day to spend in Athens and you would like to visit two of the most stunning...
AN EXQUISITE SPA AND SERENE TEA ROOM
By Aurelia, Contributing Editor
On my way to Athens this year, I planned to stop in London on the trip over to visit friends in...
POSEIDON’S TRIDENT AND MY JOURNEY TO BYZANTIUM
BY AURELIA
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
to the holy city of Byzantium.
W.B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
I don’t remember the exact date...
THE FASCINATING STORY OF KOSTAS MITSIS, THE KNITTING MACHINE, AND THE SOFITEL ATHENS AIRPORT HOTEL
BY AURELIA
Each year when I make my annual pilgrimage to Greece, I begin my journey at the Sofitel Athens Airport Hotel. It is directly...
ANTHEMUS SEA BEACH HOTEL AND SPA: A GARDEN OF EDEN ON HALKIDIKI’S SECOND PENINSULA
BY AURELIA
“Suddenly, at my bedside,
was golden-sandaled Dawn.”
Sappho, Lyric Poet (630-612 to 570 BCE)
My room at the Anthemus Sea Beach Resort was actually a suite...
Treasures of Northern Greece: The Luxurious Sani Resort
By: Aurelia
“Sing Apollo, with your golden lyre, of the radiant light of Greece.
Anonymous poet, 5th Century
Possibly Sappho or Alcaeus
In the early 1960’s when the...
THE CYCLADIC SISTERS: TWO GODDESSES AND A TEMPTRESS
By: AURELIA, Contributor
INTRODUCTION
The magic of Greece is in its very ambiguity, in the tensions that pull it from one wonderful, delicious extreme to the...