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A Season of Anticipation: The Glorious Build Up to Greek Easter
Easter in Greece (Pascha) is a whole season, one that for many people already started on Clean Monday (this year, February 19th), a day of kite flying that signals the beginning of Sarakosti – the forty days of fasting to spiritually prepare for Easter. It’s a period that
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Life
Winter and Wine on Santorini
I reached Santorini on a cold, sun-drenched morning in early January and, without quite realizing how, ended up
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Life
Celebrating St Tryphon in Goumenissa: A Warming Feast in the Depths of Winter
Goumenissa, close to Greece’s northern border, is a wine town. On the feast day of St. Tryphon – the protector of the vine – the locals go all out for what is one of winter’s biggest celebrations.
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Epiphany: The Final Act of the Greek Christmas Season
While the holiday season in much of the rest of the world comes to a gentle close after New Year’s Day, our holiday season in Greece extends a few more days to end with a glorious splash – literally. The twelve days of Christmas (remember the carol of the same name – with the pear-tree perching partridges and leaping lords?) reach their bracing finale on the sixth of January. Epiphany…
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Life
How to Get into the Greek Holiday Spirit
Greek Christmas has a lot going for it. It’s at least as festive and abundant as the celebrations farther north, but refreshingly it’s
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Athens
All of the Taste, None of the Guilt – Eating Healthy in Athens
Greek food is the healthiest in the world,” my Greek friends would tell me, again and again. I knew there was something to it, having read about the Greek philosophers in school and the healthy diet they promoted. Pythagoras was vegetarian, and the Spartan diet is what
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