Tim Neville Instead of traditional wooden planks, Virginia Beach's famous boardwalk is concrete. The 3-mile thoroughfare is lined with quaint benches, Colonial-style street lamps, and separate ...

Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday, Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic Great Lent. It is a ...

“Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday,” is considered one of the most important annual feasts in Greece, commencing the period of Great Lent known as Sarakosti in the Greek Orthodox Church, which ...

Head to Filiatro Beach, a sandy beach with crystal-clear waters ... Located on the highest peak of Ithaca, the Monastery of Kathara offers a serene and spiritual experience. Enjoy the tranquility of ...

Many of the world's best places to visit are beach destinations – and for good reason. A top travel trend for 2025 is JOMO (the "joy of missing out"), which means having a relaxing vacation ...

The women, ages 23 through 26, were found dead at the Royal Kahal Beach Resort. Police in Belize are investigating after three young American women were found dead in their hotel room at a luxury ...

As Greece prepares to celebrate Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday), the traditional start of Lent, Greek households are bracing for higher costs when setting their Lenten table. The beloved holiday, known ...

The “perfect” tropical beach hardly needs to be described; it’s on the Instagram post, in the pages of a travel magazine: Fine white sand, coconut palm trees overhead, a gently sloping beach ...

Towering granite boulders and palms dot the perimeter of this beautiful white-sand beach, and a nearby coral reef keeps the waters calm and ideal for wading. This stretch of sheltered beach on ...

From Hilton Head Island to Myrtle Beach, these are the prime coastal spots in the Palmetto State. Elizabeth Rhodes is a special projects editor at Travel + Leisure, covering everything from luxury ...