AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...
Tipsy monks, sandy beaches and sleepy villages? Amorgos has all these and more Born and bred in London, Gemma has worked in travel journalism for close to two decades, including turns as a freelance ...
A helicopter appeared last month through the mists that often engulf Greece's far-flung isle of Amorgos. Two figures, one on a stretcher, waited as the chopper, carrying an emergency medical team, ...
Serenity has a home on Amorgos Island in Cyclades, Greece. Since antiquity, this secret paradise island has intrigued internationally curious travelers, traders and pilgrims. Tradition says the ...
Most visitors to Greece's Amorgos don't know though is that on the island itself, water for household use and irrigating crops is far from abundant. Farmers are struggling to grow crops. On a Greek ...
Decades after her first visit, Sister Irini returned to Amorgos to live in an old monastery she restored herself. Sister Irini walks on the roof of her home, the Agios Georgios Valsamitis monastery ...
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