“I now work at La Frianderie. The owner Mr Tassos was an officer at the naval academy, responsible for the supervision of the bakery. Mr Tassos is also from Poros so he knew me anyhow and approached me to ask if I wanted to help. At the beginning I joined almost...
“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...
“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...
“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...
