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When I was a child, island life for me was all about playing hide and seek inside the labyrinth of a traditional settlement until it was too dark to see and my mother was searching for me to get me home. A few years after, island life was about the times I was brave enough, […]

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The procedure of souma distillation takes hours and hours. I hadn’t realized that before, because there is always a great deal of drinking and eating with friends during the distillation, so it’s quite easy to lose the track of time. The informal tradition of the “cauldrons” involves souma tasting and a meze, like olives, cheese […]

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Another weekend is almost over: it’s funny how the sunset colors on a Sunday, can awake all sorts of -I don’t want to go to school tomorrow-memories. It’s also the end of September and it is starting to get a little chilly here at the islands. You can’t go out at night without a light […]

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