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Afternoon tea in the age of Coronavirus
By Aurelia
Mozart’s Piano Symphony 21 is playing on my favorite internet radio station, “Beautiful Classical Music from Venice,” the kettle is rapidly boiling, a...
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...
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...
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...
Men Who Drink from a Different Fountain: Giorgomichalis Kolokotronis and Patrick Leigh Fermor
By Aurelia
There is something mysterious about the Mani area of Greece that attracts those who drink from a different fountain—those who follow the path...
Diros Caves in the Peloponnese what the ancients called “the gateway to Hades.”
By Aurelia, Special to the Hellenic News of America
At the world-famous Diros Caves in the Peloponnese region of Greece, I waited with others to...
The Culinary Sanctuaries of Crete By Aurelia
Chora Sfakion is a small village in Southern Crete and the capital of Sfakia, one of the most barren and rugged areas of what...
Living the Dream: Aurelia’s Odysseys IFWTWA Annual Conference in California: A Moveable Feast By Aurelia, Special to the Hellenic News...
By Aurelia, Special to the Hellenic News of America
When the highly anticipated program book with the agenda for my professional travel writers' conference arrived,...
VisitPittsburgh Invites Greek Americans
To Visit Pittsburgh, PA.
“New waves of transplants are arriving from
Philadelphia, New York, and beyond, lured
by a quality of life that consistently earns
Pittsburgh a perch...
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 a...
SFAKIA: WHERE THE MOUNTAINS MEET THE SEA
By Aurelia, Contributing Editor
Sfakia, located South of Chania and surrounded by the Lefka Ori or “white mountains,” is one of the most...