Spiros: you should hear the story of how we got married, it’s pretty crazy! One day while we were still on Evia island, Elizabeth received a message from the local police to present herself at the local authorities. We went there together and they told her she...
Spiros: it was wonderful growing up on Poros. We were very free, spent a lot of time outdoors. We didn’t get much education and we were very poor (there were only a few families on Poros that were wealthy). My father was a barber in the navy, my mother was a...
Elizabeth: I was born in England to a French mother and an English father. Even though I was raised in England, I would spend my childhood holidays in Normandy, France. My grandparents used to have a restaurant and rooms to let in a small town where they would make...
How would our regular day in Galatas look like? Well, I would meet him at the ouzerie at around noon, then come home by boat, I would cook some Greek food, no meat though as George wasn’t a big meat eater. We would eat a lot of pastas, soups like fasolada...
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...
