SCHOLA RETURNS
We (19 Schola students and alumni, 5 parents, two tour guides and I) returned from Greece in early June, having spent some 18 days there. It was a marvelous trip: our guides put us in very decent hotels (and some of them were wonderful), found us great meals at delightful restaurants every day, and designed a tour around the country that comprised some of the best sites, classical and Christian, and some of the most beautiful country Greece has to offer. Everyone enjoyed the trip immensely, we all learned a great deal, and all of us would happily go back. If you'd like an idea of our trip, you're welcome to visit our trip page. It's a work in progress, but check it out again soon as the Schola Travel Committee is putting together a complete review, with pictures, of the whole trip.
The foundations having been laid by this first trip with its emphasis on the pre-historic and classical history of Greece, another trip now with a shift in focus to Christian Greece would be ideal. There is a tremendous amount of Christian history to see, from the sites of Paul's visits (including the Areopagus and Philippi, which we did see) to the Byzantine Christian sites of the Nicene and post-Nicene age, to the monastic sites of Meteora (which we saw but which needs a great deal more time than we had), Mount Athos, and other places, to the churches which show up in every village.
Of course, what one really needs to do is find an Aegean island with a house owned by a friendly fellow who's willing to let a bunch of Schola yahoos stay there in exchange for work on his house and yard; there we could study and from there we could travel - make a month of it. Sounds good, eh?
The foundations having been laid by this first trip with its emphasis on the pre-historic and classical history of Greece, another trip now with a shift in focus to Christian Greece would be ideal. There is a tremendous amount of Christian history to see, from the sites of Paul's visits (including the Areopagus and Philippi, which we did see) to the Byzantine Christian sites of the Nicene and post-Nicene age, to the monastic sites of Meteora (which we saw but which needs a great deal more time than we had), Mount Athos, and other places, to the churches which show up in every village.
Of course, what one really needs to do is find an Aegean island with a house owned by a friendly fellow who's willing to let a bunch of Schola yahoos stay there in exchange for work on his house and yard; there we could study and from there we could travel - make a month of it. Sounds good, eh?
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