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...
“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...
