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The practice of decorating sailing boats with Christmas lights, a fabulous Greek Christmas tradition, is making a comeback – even amongst Greeks in the diaspora from Australia to the coastal US. [...]

Welcome back! Socrates once said: “Wisdom begins in Wonder” There are so many places around the world that are aching to welcome you back as guests after the global lockdown due to Covid19 – none [...]

During this difficult time, it seems the world has come together in ways unseen in order to fight the novel Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. In the end – in the After Times – we hope/we trust we will [...]

Join us on a unique Active Adventure, to the sacred sites of Meteora and Delphi in Greece, (***originally scheduled for April 2020), immediately after Greek Orthodox Easter, aka Pascha. The [...]

Over the summer Solstice weekend I was wondering what the ancient Greeks did to celebrate? The Greeks were not as specific in their celebrations of solstice as the Celts, per se, because the sun [...]

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I first came upon Spetses in the spring of 2000. My mom and I had taken a recommended vacation to Greece a few months after my father’s passing in order to help us recoup and recover a bit during [...]

The Hellenic world was at its prime when the Byzantine was just rising, and it was in this era in the first centuries Ano Domini, that the traditions fuelling Greek Orthodox Pascha were fused. It [...]

In Greece, it’s customary to salute everyone you see the first day of each month, with the greeting “Καλo Mήνα” (Kalo Mina), which literally means “good month”. It’s the Greek way of wishing [...]

The ubiquitous Yin-Yang taijitu symbol holds its roots in the philosophy of Taoism: the yin= the dark swirl, is associated with cold, shadows, and the trough of a wave; the yang= the light swirl, [...]