🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 11 Meteora. Monks built these monasteries on top of stone pillars six hundred years ago. No roads. No stairs. Just ropes and faith. The word meteora, in Greek, means suspended in the air. This is literal, not metaphorical. Above the small town of Kalabaka […]
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The ferry from Dubrovnik crossed the Ionian Sea overnight. I did not sleep much. I stood at the rail in the dark and watched the water carry the light from the stern in a long shifting line that broke and reformed and never quite repeated. By morning, Greece. The first moment in Greece — Athens
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 10 Athens doesn’t start at the Acropolis. It starts in the backstreets of Plaka — where the alleys are older than most countries. There is a neighbourhood in Athens called Plaka Nobody can tell you exactly when it was founded, because founded is the
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Greece Route: Athens (Piraeus) → Santorini → Crete (Heraklion) Total distance: 350 km by sea Total crossing time: 7–11 hours (two ferries, without time on the islands) Recommended duration: 7–10 days Best months: May–June, September–October Vessels: Blue Star Ferries (conventional), SeaJets (high-speed catamaran) The Shape of This Route across Greece This is not a Greece
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It was a Tuesday morning, I wasn’t thinking about Greece. I was sitting near the old harbour in Dubrovnik, on a low wall that had been warm for an hour already, watching the water move against the stone below. The sound was small and constant — a soft collapse, a retreat, another collapse — the
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 3 Šibenik. Vis. Dubrovnik. Three places that prove the Adriatic doesn’t repeat itself — it escalates. Šibenik I arrived in Šibenik expecting another coastal town. I was wrong within thirty seconds. The Cathedral of St. James stood in front of me built entirely from stone
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 9 Dubrovnik’s city walls are over 600 years old. Two kilometres of stone, built to protect a republic that lasted longer than most empires. But the best part isn’t the view from the top. It’s getting lost in the streets below. Ragusa — the
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 8 Vis was a military island until 1989. No tourists for fifty years. That’s why it still looks like this. Vis is the farthest inhabited island from the Croatian mainland It takes two and a half hours by ferry from Split, across a stretch
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 7 Šibenik’s cathedral took 105 years to build. Every stone carved by hand. No brick, no wood — the only cathedral in Europe made entirely of stone. Šibenik — Medieval Stone, Tesla’s Electricity The stone that built the Cathedral of St. James was quarried
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 2 From sea level in Lovran to 1,396 metres. From a mountain summit to a city market in Zagreb. From a capital to Plitvice lakes that build their own world. Lovran I started the week looking up. Vojak — the highest peak of Učka —
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