My earliest memory is making pictures on my parents new bedroom wallpaper with bright red nail polish. I was about three, and my art was not at all appreciated, but I was soon supplied with paints and paper! At eight, I declared to my parents that I would be an artist...
Vangelia and I have two kids: Dimitris is 18 and he wants to study mathematics at the university. Michael is 14 and is very handy. He wants to be a cargo boats’ mechanic. They are very different, but both follow what they love. I often remind them how lucky they...
We decided to make our relationship with Vangelia more official. I went to her mother (Vangelia lost her father when she was very young) and asked for her hand. We got married in 1997 and have been happy ever since! Vangelia was the reason why I got interested in the...
Some of the most memorable and also the worst moments of my job? I have seen it all pretty much. There was this one time I had to recover 3 dead bodies of the Romanians from the sewage. I had to go down and collect them myself and you don’t ever say...
In the beginning we wanted to have 12 kids. We liked the number. A house full of kids. But in the end we stopped at 5. There is Thomas, who is 17 and he is the oldest, Michalis is 16, Daphne is 14, Zoe is 11 and the youngest, Lidia, is 9 years old. When Eleni got...
