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Wanderlust Greece
THE ARCHIVE
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The Sacred Way | Walking the Road the Greeks Never Stopped Using
There is a road in western Athens, signposted in ordinary blue and white municipal lettering,…
Lesbos | Beyond Sappho, Beyond the Headlines
Let's address it directly and then move on. Lesbos is the birthplace of Sappho, the…
Folegandros | The Island That Belongs to Neither
In the fourth century BCE, young men from across Greece made their way by boat…
The Landscape of Orpheus | A Pilgrimage Through the Sacred Geography of the Myth
The myth of Orpheus is also a geography. Most mythology sits lightly on the landscape,…
Delphi | The Navel of the World and the Most Consequential Address in Ancient History
For approximately a thousand years, the most important address in the Western world was a…
Thessaloniki for First-Timers | The City That Out-Eats Athens
Greeks will tell you, if you ask them honestly and away from polite company, that…