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Rays of morning light enter through the salty windows; as they get trapped in my mother’s laced curtains, they create sunlight tattoos on the rough island wall. I want to Instagram it, but my cat is sleeping on my lap, so I drink a sip of coffee instead and get back to work. It is […]

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Islanders are travelers. They have been travelling for so long, it’s a part of their DNA. Captains, mechanics, traders, explorers and fishermen, travel under the protection Saint Nicholas or Poseidon in the past, with the dream of returning safe to their loved ones, loaded with stories and goods. There are few island families that throughout […]

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Open air cinema is probably the coolest thing on my cool summer things top 5: it exceeds ice cream, star gazing, swimming and beer, since a brilliant open air cinema can include all the above; and if it doesn’t, that’s perfectly fine. As the sky color is changing from purple to vivid blue, all you […]

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Μay is the Friday of the months. It has work pilled up and it has leisure; no, actually it has something better than that: it has the promise of leisure; A promise solid as a rock, the kind of promise that we cling to and don’t let go, until August finds us hidden under a […]

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  Day by day, we gain a couple of treasured minutes of daylight. It is enough to open a crack in winter greyness and take courage to jump over the time-gap that leads to spring. It’s still very cold, very rainy and very dark, but we start paying attention to the afternoon chirping of the […]

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