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About Marilyn Yung

http://www.marilynyung.wordpress.com

I'm a writer, a teacher, and a traveler, and I'm not sure where one begins and the other ends. I've written for several print publications prior to the arrival of the Internet (yes, that long ago) and I now write on my personal travel and memoir blog, as well as my teaching blog (www.elabraveandtrue.com). I also write on Medium under Education, Parenting, and Travel.

Dancing in the Dark on Greece’s Skopelos Island

March 26, 2020 by Marilyn YungLeave a Comment

A slice of local life on Skopelos Island Last June, my husband and I spent three wonderful weeks on Skopelos Island in Greece, the largest island of the Sporades chain east of the mainland. One evening, after a dinner down by the Skopelos town harbor at Στου Δημητράκη (where we dined on giouvetsi, mousaka and ekmek, by the way), we ventured back up the hill around to the City School to watch a night of traditional dancing. The show started at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Europe · Tagged: America, Art, Culture, Dancing, Fashion, Festival, Greece, Mountain Climbing, Music, Trekking

When you learn (yet again) how much you don’t know: Agios Michael Synadon

July 4, 2019 by Marilyn Yung3 Comments

Panagia Eleftherotria

We weren’t inside this little church for more than twenty minutes, but that was long enough to be reminded yet again of my ignorance on… well, so many things. Architecture and Greek Orthodoxy are topics that come to mind, as well as the history of the 100+ public and private churches that exist in Skopelos, the little Greek town we’re residing in while my husband completes an artist residency. We discovered one of those churches, the Church of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Europe · Tagged: America, Architecture, Art, Flowers, Greece, History, iPhone, Restaurants, Shopping Mall, Walking tour

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