Are you interested in exploring the ancient and contemporary myths and rituals of the Goddesses? 

Carol Christ and the Ariadne Institute for the Study of Myth and Ritual run several tours a year for women around the theme of  “Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete.”

Spend two weeks with twenty women exploring the ancient pathways of the Goddess as embodied in Crete. Read more

Written in New York by Vicki J. Yiannias

Camille Cusumaro, editor of Greece, A Love Story, published by Seal Press, writes in her introduction to the collection of stories about the Greek experience that she visited that “isle-perforated land of scintillating whites and impossible blues” for the first time in 1976. She “drank ouzo and retsina, ate the unforgettable cream of yogurts and wrapped her tongue around few Greek phrases,” and thought she had experienced the culture. But when she began working with the stories of this anthology she was carried back to Greece and her perception of the place was broadened.

For those who have been to Greece some of the personal travel essays in Greece, A Love Story are likely to do the same; those who plan to go can explore inside views of the magical charm and appeal of Greece, and some of its idiosyncratic characteristics, as well.

For many visitors, Greece is a place where their lives were changed, and where they awakened culturally. As well as being a sharing of firsthand experiences the women’s essays go beyond ordinary travelogue to capture the ways in which the country has shaped their lives or influenced decisions.

Greece, A Love Story is the winner of BATW’s Best Travel Book for Planet Earth 2008, and Diane LeBow’s story Dancing on the Wine Dark Sea also won Best Story/Essay in a Travel Related Anthology.

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I was reading the blog of Adventurous Wench and was reminded of what a great movie Shirley Valentine was. As the blog says “It’s a 1989 movie about a British woman who’s resigned to (and sick of) her routine, loveless existence. Quite by chance she gets an opportunity to spend a fortnight in Greece. While there, she discovers both a new love for life, and the self she thought she’d lost forever.”

I must watch it again myself – planning a trip later in the year, it will get me in the mood for embracing the journey that is travel, and its potential for changing our lives.