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<\/a>Delphi was a learning experience for me. The ride alone was extremely long, but I always loved long rides. When we arrived at Delphi, I was excited to see the Temple of Apollo. We climbed the mountain, a long, and arduous journey. I was reminded of the mountains back in Kalymnos, and wished I was back on the island. When we reached the temple, I was breathless. The hike up had completely drained me. I immediately perked back up when I really analyzed the remaining pillars. I could picture all of the people who had hiked up the hill to visit the Oracle, or to see this majestic monument of an ancient civilization. I was awestruck as I basked in the history and culture of this one archaeological site. The history was more than anything I had fathomed. Greece’s artifacts were so much more powerful than any I had ever seen. I cannot wait to return to Greece one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece was much more than I had ever anticipated. I was granted the chance to spend my birthday in one of the countries I always wanted to visit. Kalymnos was one of the most majestic, beautiful places I’d ever seen. The sweet countryside\u00a0and generous people were such a surprise, as was the rest of the … Continue reading “Kalymnos has a special place in my heart”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions\/14159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Delphi was a learning experience for me. The ride alone was extremely long, but I always loved long rides. When we arrived at Delphi, I was excited to see the Temple of Apollo. We climbed the mountain, a long, and arduous journey. I was reminded of the mountains back in Kalymnos, and wished I was back on the island. When we reached the temple, I was breathless. The hike up had completely drained me. I immediately perked back up when I really analyzed the remaining pillars. I could picture all of the people who had hiked up the hill to visit the Oracle, or to see this majestic monument of an ancient civilization. I was awestruck as I basked in the history and culture of this one archaeological site. The history was more than anything I had fathomed. Greece’s artifacts were so much more powerful than any I had ever seen. I cannot wait to return to Greece one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"