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	<title>Hellenic Travels to the Past</title>
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	<description>Hellenic: A collection of tales from an ancient Hellenic past from across the Eurasian continent.</description>
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		<title>A Greek-Australian-Japanese Wedding in Stomio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s the phone call that I had waited years to receive…”Billy, I’m getting married.” Then the line went dead. A few moments later, George had called again to explain that he would be getting married in a matter of weeks in Stomio, Greece. 
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		<title>Libya: The secret haven of Greek colonies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arabic charm, Berber tribesmen, Islamic traditions, Mediterranean coast, pariah in the West. These are some of the tags we can ascribe to Libya when we think about that country.
Mention the name Ghadafi and one automatically associates it with Libya&#8230;
Mention the name Belisarius and you will draw a blank&#8230;but 1500 years ago this was a name [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=144&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Greek village in Hungary: a story of the communist refugees</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy &#38; George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s funny how a simple request to visit friends can lead to another Hellenic Travels adventure. With winter in London seemingly at an end, I was invited to Budapest to visit a few of my Australian friends who had moved there.
As I always do before a simple visit to a foreign country I typed in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=142&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restoration: Tunisia with a touch of Hellenism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restoration: Tunisia with a touch of Hellenism
Restoration. A word that stood out for me on my recent trip to Tunisia – a word which succinctly captures what the Greek community are aspiring to and what I in turn having been seeking for 10 years.
Tunisia is picturesque Mediterranean country. Pristine beaches to the north, the Sahara [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=140&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macedonia: What’s in a Name?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy &#38; George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a long time since I last wrote an article on Macedonia. Like most of the Greeks abroad, we carry Macedonia in our hearts, and back in my student days I campaigned on the issue. It was a constant feature of the Greek magazine we produced. However, I drifted from the campaign. It wasn’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=137&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greeks of Odessa and Ukrainian cuisine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy &#38; George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been an unusually cold period for that time of the year in the Ukraine. We were waiting anxiously, freezing, near the village’s only shop. It was a rather overcast day. I had already asked people if they spoke Greek, surprisingly the responses I received were: ‘Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, English.’ Then I heard a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=135&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A sign of the Greek times: Byzantine Malta</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Billy &#38; George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To some of my regular readers, it comes as no surprise that in April I made the move from Sydney to London ostensibly to work. On my list of places to visit was Malta, a little island nation in the Mediterranean with a population of 400 000.

Signs
Flying in to Malta I was excited. I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=130&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Croatian Customs officials and the Greek church of Zadar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved to London in April 2008 in order to be closer to real frappe and to visit Greek towns and sites that fall outside of Greece proper. I was in dire need of a break from the dismal London weather and from constant weekend trips across Europe, so I booked in a 2 day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=126&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An ancient Greek theatre in Barcelona: Greek towns in Spain and France</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I made it to Barcelona. During the course of site seeing I came across the ruins of “Teatre Grec” (Greek theatre). To say I was astonished would be an understatement. To say that I am Greek “blind” is also an understatement – a rare condition that disrupts a person’s vision so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=109&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TREBIZOND &#8212; The Last Greek Empire</title>
		<link>http://herculean.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/trebizond-the-last-greek-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I start this article, let me invite you the reader to help me. From my castle in Sydney it is a struggle to obtain information on Trebizond so I have made an executive decision – to make this article interactive. Should you have any information on Trebizond I am happy to go back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=herculean.wordpress.com&blog=780073&post=108&subd=herculean&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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