by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 10, 2020 | Culture, Life, Winter 2020
New Year’s Eve is a classic holiday that is celebrated by most everyone around the world. In the United States, people gather to watch the ball drop in Times Square, eat lots of finger foods and fancy snacks, and kiss their special someone right at the stroke of...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2020 | Features, Winter 2020
Where did China get its first cup of tea? Who invented boomerangs in Australia? How did African leopards get their spots? Though there are plenty of factual answers to these questions, we can often learn more about a country from its bedtime stories than its history...
by Stowaway Magazine | Sep 28, 2019 | Blog, Fall 2019
Most people travel to Greece to see the Parthenon in Athens or to take pictures in Santorini, one of the most Instagram-worthy places in the world. While these places are all well and good, the spot you really need to visit is in the mountains overlooking Kalambaka:...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
You probably know Easter as the Christian commemoration of Jesus’s resurrection, a celebration of the spring equinox, and an occasion to eat chocolate eggs and jelly beans from the Easter Bunny. But if you’re traveling to another country this spring, you might be...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 1, 2018 | Away For A While, Getaways, Winter 2018
While living in the American Rockies for a few years as a visiting professor, Loula missed Greece. It wasn’t just that no one in her new town shared her Orthodox upbringing or that the only version of her native language taught at the local university wasn’t even...
