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Rhodes, Greece

Rhodes πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· The Island That Outlived Everyone Who Wanted It

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Episode 17 Rhodes is the Greek island that was everybody else’s before it was ever its own. Rhodes β€” The Most Wanted Island Rhodes has been wanted by almost every empire that ever existed in this part of the Mediterranean. It was founded as a

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Santorini, Greece

Santorini πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· Beauty That Survived Its Own Explosion

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Episode 16 Santorini wasn’t always beautiful. In 1600 BC, a volcanic eruption destroyed everything. What you see now is what grew back. Santorini exploded Around 1600 BC, give or take a few decades, the island now called Santorini exploded. Not figuratively. Volcanologists estimate that the

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Paros, Greece

I Found Cheese on Naxos, Marble on Paros, and My Nerve on Ios πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·

Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Journal 5 Naxos. Paros. Ios. Three islands that don’t need the ones everyone talks about. Naxos The ferry from Mykonos to Naxos takes forty minutes. The difference takes about three seconds to feel. I walked off the boat and the Portara was right there β€” the

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Paros, Greece

Paros πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· Two Thousand Years of the Sculptor’s Favourite Island

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Episode 14 Paros is the island tourists pass through on their way to somewhere else. They are leaving the quarry of the ancient world. Paros became the sculptor’s island The marble that came out of Paros was not the same material as the marble that

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Naxos, Greece

Naxos πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· The Island That Carved the Parthenon

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Episode 13 Naxos isn’t the island tourists pick first. That’s exactly why it still feels like this. Naxos invented the habit of carving teh stone The Parthenon is made of Pentelic marble from a mountain outside Athens. That is the school answer, and it is

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Athens, Greece

Athens Made Me Think, Meteora Made Me Stop, Mykonos Made Me Forget Why πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·

Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Journal 4 Athens. Meteora. Mykonos. Philosophy, gravity, and the complete absence of both. Athens I landed in Athens expecting museums. What I got was an argument. The Acropolis doesn’t sit in the city β€” it sits above it, watching, like it’s still deciding whether the rest

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Mykonos, Greece

Mykonos πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· Built by Pirates, Painted for Postcards

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧡 Mediterranean Region πŸͺ‘ Episode 12 Mykonos has two faces. The party island everyone talks about. And the quiet corners nobody photographs. The thing nobody tells you about Mykonos Mykonos is not really the destination. Two miles west of Mykonos Town, across a stretch of Aegean water thin enough

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