Greece
My favorite place is Greece and now I’m revealing three places that are my travel secrets.
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Place: Crete, Greece
Book: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)
Movie: Zorba the Greek with Alan Bates and Anthony Quinn(1964) and subsequent musical, Zorba
Several years ago, during our travels in Greece, Ken and I had a marvelous 10 days of driving back and forth across the mountains of Crete and exploring its rough-edged beauty. [...]
The 2nd book to be given away (announcement of winner on August 18):
Do summer days make you wish you were on an island? See some books about about Greek Islands, and specifically about Crete. And over at Spot Cool Stuff, I wrote about my idyll on the island of Siphnos.
Or journey to the Caribbean with this British travel writer.
Have a nice trip to the islands!
A video shows the striking new Acropolis Museum, and A Traveler’s Library reviews the week spent in Greece.
Destination: Greece
Read: Childe Harold, Canto II, XI-XIII and XV By Lord Byron
If you are lucky, you’ll tune in to the Acropolis web page in time to hear the ceremony of opening today. (They have a video embedded in the web site, but don’t say what time. Presumably quite early U.S. time)
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Christopher Hitchens writes eloquently in Vanity Fair about Acropolis Museum. Just one of many world wide articles.
Yesterday it was mythology in a book, today myths strut on the stage.
Destination: Greece
Read/See:
Medea, by Euripides (Legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece)
Oedipus and Antigone, two plays by Sophocles, (Legends from the Royal Family of Thebes)
In a graduate school seminar, I became fixated on traveling to Greece. The professor showed a series of slides [...]
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