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Try a Tradition! Taking a look at New Year’s traditions around the world

April 09, 0020 12:00 AM
New Year’s Eve is a classic holiday that is celebrated by most everyone around the world. In the United States, people gather to watch the ball drop in Times Square, eat lots of finger foods and fancy snacks, and kiss their special someone right at the stroke of midnight.
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Goodnight, World Fables Around the Globe

April 08, 0020 12:00 AM
Where did China get its first cup of tea? Who invented boomerangs in Australia? How did African leopards get their spots? Though there are plenty of factual answers to these questions, we can often learn more about a country from its bedtime stories than its history books. After all, humans have used stories to explain their surroundings for thousands of years, passing legends down from generation to generation. Through these legends, we learn about the gods our ancestors worshipped, the traditions they held dear, and their relationships with the world and the people around them.
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Suspended in the Sky

September 26, 0019 12:00 AM
Most people travel to Greece to see the Parthenon in Athens or to take pictures in Santorini, one of the most Instagram-worthy places in the world. While these places are all well and good, the spot you really need to visit is in the mountains overlooking Kalambaka: the Greek Orthodox monasteries of Meteora.
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5 Easter Traditions from Around the World

March 28, 0018 12:00 AM
You probably know Easter as the Christian commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection, a celebration of the spring equinox, and an occasion to eat chocolate eggs and jelly beans from the Easter Bunny. But if you’re traveling to another country this spring, you might be surprised at the variety of ways people celebrate Easter.
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Ode to a Grecian Yearn

December 30, 0017 12:00 AM
While living in the American Rockies for a few years as a visiting professor, Loula missed Greece. It wasn’t just that no one in her new town shared her Orthodox upbringing or that the only version of her native language taught at the local university wasn’t even modern Greek. She missed her native land’s cuisine, its rich age, its sun-kissed hills and whitewashed seaside adobe homes.
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Back in Black: Caravan the Black Sea Ring Highway

June 29, 0013 12:00 AM
Twelve countries. One road. The Black Sea Ring Highway is a recently formed blacktop highway that encircles the coast of the Black Sea for about 7,700 km and touches major cities in both Europe and Asia. That’s a lot of ground for travelers to cover.
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Zucchini: Four Corners of the Kitchen

June 29, 0013 12:00 AM
Ratatouille
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Mykonos and Santorini

December 28, 0011 12:00 AM
The village of Santorini lies perched on a steep hillside. Photography courtesy of Denise Jones
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Falling through Time

September 29, 0011 12:00 AM
Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea from a dusty red cliff, I felt like I was falling through time. I could be Aegeus, the king of Athens, waiting for my son, Theseus, to return from killing the Minotaur. As I turned to behold the marble temple, I could be the wife of a sailor praying to Poseidon to keep her husband safe.
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