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Blue color is commonly associated with the sky, the sea, ice, cold, and sometimes with sadness. This oil painted sky blue wall of this traditional island kafeneio, brings inside the outside colors and light. On a rainy day like this, it makes you want to get lost in reverie with a hot cup of sage […]

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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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  • Vicki Preston25/11/2013 - 7:24 am

    Beautifully written, Maria.ReplyCancel

  • Anna C A Vollebregt25/11/2013 - 9:10 am

    Yes… very beautifull and with a litle romantiek !
    Thanks Maria * and Vicki *
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  • Christine Howson25/11/2013 - 12:17 pm

    Love it, this living on Paros to me for half the year at different times during the year…ReplyCancel

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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