unique Athens experiences

Plato’s Academy Workshop 2025: A Review From the Olive Groves

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Plato’s Academy Workshop 2025: A Review From the Olive Groves Walking with Ghosts of Thinkers Past Honestly, showing up at Plato’s Academy Park feels a little different than other spots in Athens. You know, this place is not about big columns or crowded entryways; actually, it’s mostly a public green space with some old stones here and there. In a way, it is very quiet, almost surprisingly so for a location this important to history. My morning started just like that, pretty much finding a small group of people near a designated olive tree. To be honest, I was a …

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Crafting the Evil Eye in Athens: A 2025 Theatrical Review

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Crafting the Evil Eye in Athens: A 2025 Theatrical Review So, you’re walking through the Plaka district in Athens, and you know, it’s just everywhere. You see this blue eye, kind of like, staring back at you from necklaces, bracelets, and little glass decorations hanging in every single shop. I mean, it’s pretty much a symbol of Greece. I’d actually always been curious about it, about what it really stood for. I honestly thought it was just another pretty souvenir, you know, something tourists pick up. Then I found something that was, in a way, totally different. It was called …

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