“I was born in England, but I grew up here in the village, not far from Poros. My mother is English, my father is Greek. They met in Greece when my mom came for holidays to Porto Cheli, a coastal town an hour drive from here. My father used to work there as a...
Cuando hace un año comenzábamos a preparar y organizar el verano de 2015, no nos podíamos imaginar las experiencias que viviríamos y la gente que encontraríamos en el camino.Desde hace varios años, para Álvaro y para mí el verano es un momento para vivir nuevas...
“As kids we would not leave the house a lot. We would spend most of the time at home, studying and knitting. We would knit anything: jumpers, blouses, anything. This way time would just fly. We would rarely go for walks as children. Maybe sometimes in summer we...
George Seferis, the Greek Nobel Prize laureate, spent several summers on Poros Island, beginning in the mid-30s. The bright yellow flower of an indigenous bush (Greek: Aspalathos – Latin: calicotome spinosa) became the inspiration for one of his last poems. Now,...
“I’m nobody special. I’m just a housewife. I’m 100% of Poros origin, my mother delivered me with help of a midwife as there was no hospital on Poros at the time, it was in a house. My mother got pregnant again, but unfortunately she lost the child. Then the Nazi...
