At the end of 1959 I met my future husband. We met at a bar. I was doing some proof reading work at night for the Athens News at the time and I had a lot of expat friends including some well known writers. We all used to meet at Apotses, a famous ouzerie. We used to...
My family and I come from South Australia, near Murray river, where I spent the first 8 years of my life. My grand father came to Australia from Scotland in 1880’s, where he founded a pastoral company. He then met my grandmother who was of English descent. After...
“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...
“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...
