Destination: Greece

Finding Agia Pelagia

Thu, 21 May 2015 | By jadeb113 | Views [207] | Scholarship Entry

I studied abroad in Spain this semester, and was granted a week-long vacation in early March. A friend and I decided that the best way to spend that time would be in a small island town in Greece called Agia Pelagia. Neither of us spoke any Greek and ... Read more >

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20 dollars in my pocket

Wed, 20 May 2015 | By caravan | Views [256]

Quick Guide to Athens, Greece

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By nicolemesa | Views [345]

  Day 1    The Library of Hadrian:  The last of the major ancient Archeoligical sites to visit! Be sure to get there with time to visit the museum inside the site, it closes at 3 pm.  After climbing the ... Read more >

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Photos: Athens, Greece

Mon, 18 May 2015 | By nicolemesa | Photo Gallery

Gerakini

Fri, 15 May 2015 | By natalialkon | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry

Nowadays people are busy. Always busy. Especially those, who live in big cities. Fixed ideas of climbing their career ladders and doing something worthy chase their minds and make people rush like squirrels in treadmills. But sometimes the feeling that ... Read more >

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Know Thyself

Fri, 15 May 2015 | By charlotte_a_p_meredith | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry

We stride up the rocky path, filling the clear April air with girlish chatter. I am slightly light-headed from lack of sleep, but the feeling only adds to the ethereal effect cast by the early morning sunlight. The hilly backdrop of Greece cocoons our ... Read more >

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Cape Sounio

Thu, 14 May 2015 | By oliveoil | Views [241] | Scholarship Entry

We agreed we'd get to Sounio by sunset. Everything the locals said made it clear that nothing was more beautiful than dusk on the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, atop the cape, beside the ruined Temple of Poseidon, where once, Aegus, king of ... Read more >

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Two feelings

Thu, 14 May 2015 | By livingthelife | Views [211] | Scholarship Entry

It has been difficult to make this decision because I have had very good experiences in different places where I have been. I really enjoy every thing when I am abroad or when I know new places. But I am going to talk you about one place who conquered ... Read more >

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Matala Beach

Tue, 12 May 2015 | By nathanudy | Views [259] | Scholarship Entry

Before me is a squatty, cream coloured building, indistinguishable from its neighbours on either side. The postman on Crete must have struggled trying to navigate an island filled with thousands of identical white houses, clinging to the landscape like ... Read more >

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Thessaloniki

Tue, 12 May 2015 | By caravan | Views [249] | Scholarship Entry

The plane landed in the airport of Alexander the Great in Thessaloniki, but the airport did not seem so great. Small, grey, boring. We get in the bus number 77, which crosses almost the whole city. City of five-floor-buildings, grey, boring, hot, people ... Read more >

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Antonia

Mon, 11 May 2015 | By parttimeexplorer | Views [214] | Scholarship Entry

I cautiously sipped my glass of raki, watching my husband earnestly fumble his way through an impromptu Greek lesson. This has been the experience, the personal connection, I had been waiting for as we hopped from apartment to apartment, making our way ... Read more >

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Metaora

Fri, 8 May 2015 | By cboufkas | Views [241] | Scholarship Entry

My Dad has always told stories of 'Monasteries in the Mountains', something in itself is hard to describe. He and my mother came here in their early 20s as they started dating and fell in love with it. 'There is something majestic, something of an aura ... Read more >

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Photos: Corfu, Greece

Wed, 6 May 2015 | By katja | Photo Gallery

A proposed Photo opp.

Mon, 4 May 2015 | By harpodownunder | Views [170] | Scholarship Entry

in 2011 I had the leisure of visiting The island of Santorini for 3 days as part of a Greek island tour package. As a keen photographer I had wanted to visit and photograph the White-walled, blue domed buildings in Oia. While wandering around the alleyways ... Read more >

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Volunteering for Sea Turtles in a beautiful island

Sat, 2 May 2015 | By lisboncalling | Views [246] | Scholarship Entry

On my first summer as an official adult,I had exactly the same goals as every young person: work on my tan,meet new people and be out as much as possible.However,I went about it differently than most and combined this with contributing to a community ... Read more >

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