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    Apex day 2 – A woman following her dreams

    ByEileen Ogintz September 5, 2021September 8, 2021

    Fragedaki is an engaging teacher as she instructs us on how to make spinach pie, tzatziki (a cucumber yogurt sauce), and stuffed tomatoes and peppers

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  • "Infinite Verandas" make the cabins aboard the Celebrity Apex more spacious
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    Apex day 1: Pandemic cruise on a big ship

    ByEileen Ogintz September 5, 2021December 5, 2021

    The Apex, the brand new ship in the Celebrity fleet, can hold nearly 3,000 passengers. But there are 1,100 on board and 936 crew from some 60 countries

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  • The International Albuquerque, New Mexico, Balloon Fiesta.
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    Heading (safely) to a fall festival

    ByEileen Ogintz September 3, 2021December 5, 2021

    If your summer vacation plans got derailed — yet again — take the kids to a fall festival a drivable distance from home

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  • The Wind Star as night falls overMonemvasia, Greece
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    Windstar Day 5 – What’s the best part?

    ByEileen Ogintz September 3, 2021September 3, 2021

    Ask a group of people their favorite vacation experience—even if they have shared a ship for a week—and you will get a different answer from each person

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  • View of Fira atop the Santorini caldera
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    Windstar Day 4: Santorini without crowds

    ByEileen Ogintz September 1, 2021September 1, 2021

    The famed Greek Isle of Santorini is actually the eastern rim of a volcano caldera that has erupted many times through the ages

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  • Moussaka - the Greek casserole with eggplant and meat with a bechamel top
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    Windstar Day 3 – Food any way and all day

    ByEileen Ogintz August 31, 2021September 1, 2021

    There’s no charge aboard the Wind Star sailing yacht for room service. But we also learn that we can have room service anywhere we like onboard.

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  • Niko Asymomytis and his daughterDimitra Asimomyti at their organic vineyard on Mykonos
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    Windstar Day 2 – Calling all night owls

    ByEileen Ogintz August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

    If you are a night person, ou’ll love the Greek Island of Mykonos — AKA The Party Island of Greece — which is decidedly sleepy in the morning

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  • The Wind Star anchored in the harbor of Milos
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    Windstar Day One – Cruising through a pandemic in Greece

    ByEileen Ogintz August 29, 2021December 5, 2021

    The Wind Star can accommodate 148 passengers in 73 staterooms and one larger suite. But it has typically been sailing with half that number since cruises resumed this summer

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    An Athens Authentic At-Home Greek Dinner

    ByEileen Ogintz August 28, 2021August 28, 2021

    Before we arrived, we’d never met the couple yet they were hosting us for dinner—a dinner we would help prepare in their small kitchen

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  • Eleni Fotiou explains Greek mythology to kids on her tours
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    Mythology Made Easy in Athens

    ByEileen Ogintz August 28, 2021August 30, 2021

    Imagine if you are a competitive Greek god or goddess of ancient mythology with a big ego, not to mention you’re immortal with many superpowers

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