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The Heraklion central market  For centuries, the Heraklion central market is a meeting point for the inhabitants of this lively port city of Crete: in the small old-fashioned shops, where the aromas of cinnamon, oregano and sage mix, people make small talk while deciding what they are going to prepare for lunch. Everything is fresh and […]

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Leaving and returning to an original starting point   “Etymologically, the word tour is derived from the Latin, ‘tornare’ and the Greek, ‘tornos’, meaning ‘a lathe or circle; the movement around a central point or axis’. This meaning changed in modern English to represent ‘one’s turn’. The suffix –ism is defined as ‘an action or […]

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  • Efthymios Voudris13/07/2012 - 3:23 pm
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The sky, the sea, the island…   And the light… The magical, purifying Aegean light that merges the island contour with the line of the horizon and unites sea and sky. It’ s this light that I miss every time I leave my island; it’s this light that makes my heart sing. It is noon and […]

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  • Manolis Chiladakis15/07/2012 - 1:23 pm

    I am in Athens, locked in my room with my air-condition and the 40oC outside. When I read your post I felt so lucky for our sun. You are so right. This is what I also miss every evening, wherever I am, in Athens or in the islands.ReplyCancel

At the old port of Naoussa, Paros island I am walking quickly inside the traditional settlement of Naoussa, trying not to stop every two minutes to gaze at the elegant boutique windows that attract me like sirens. I am very excited because I am about to meet my friends Sophia, Panos and Christos at the […]

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  • Theo Saramandis18/02/2013 - 6:48 am

    Thanks to the Shark Bar & especially Nektarios & Mania for the hospitality.ReplyCancel

We are in Naoussa of Paros waiting for an apple martini and for the full moon that will rise soon above the Aegean Sea… There’s no other place in the world we ‘d rather be right now. Music, people, coctails; The night is coming. Magic!   words: m. alipranti © photo: c. drazos

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