Sightseeing or Shopping at the Central Market
EVERY major city in the world has one main area where one can find all the necessities of life, everything one needs to keep the house running smoothly.
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The ‘Walk’ Home
The enclosed pamphlet is an invitation to you to join us in the walk of the refugee women of Cyprus to their homes on April 20,1975.
The Hill of the Nymphs
The Feast of St. Marina will be celebrated once again on July 17 with a fair or panigiri atthe Church ofAgia Marina on the eastern slope of the Hill of the Nymphs, opposite the Acropolis, just below the Observatory.
The Easter Week on Mount Athos
ALL THAT my companion and I had for sustenance on the road to Iviron was a quarter kilo of dried peaches. Chewing our way down towards the sea, we encountered an old gentleman on his fourth annual pilgrimage through the religious world of Mount Athos. From behind his bushy white moustache came these words of encouragement: ‘Be in time for the monastery’s Good Friday vigil tonight; you will witness the Miracle of the Kandili.’
That Paradox in Halandri
THE VIEW of the grounds from the Agia Paraskevi Road is unimpressive. A seemingly disordered collection of low-level buildings is scattered behind a long gravel parking lot. There is little hint of vegetation. If you happen to pass by while classes are in session, the buildings seem empty of any human activity.
Where Pythia Left Off
HIGH UP on the southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, thousands of faithful flocked in ancient times to visit the colonnaded temple of Apollo at Delphi, some of them to consult the Oracle. Thousands of tourists flock to the same site today to admire the ancient ruins, which for centuries lay buried and forgotten.
Greek News in Brief
At the police chief’s- cue his assistant handed me a copy of The Athens News. That was also the signal to ask me if I had read it recently.
An Athenian Tale
Thousands of tourists visit Greece every year to follow in the footsteps of St. Paul. The Apostle, starting from Antioch, gradually covered the whole territory of Asia Minor and Greece—then part of the Roman Empire—as his mission field.
Samarakis
Graham Greene has described “The Flaw” as a ‘masterpiece’. Arthur Miller has called it a ‘powerful’ book. Arthur Koestlerin a 1969 article named it the best book of the year.
B.A.T.S. in the B.E.L.F.R.I
Wht is it that the British and the Americans have always shown a fondness and a weakness for the Turks? This is a question we Greeks often ask ourselves and it looms larger today when our own love and affection for our western allies appears to have been basely betrayed.
