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One day before its restoration. When Christos e-mailed me these photos of an old canava in Oia, Santorini that was about to be restored, I couldn’t help smiling. All those spontaneous decorations, full of colors and messages, they bring an aura of distant days and ways that are over.  8 Track tapes, diaries, and advertising […]

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  • anastasios Getsos22/03/2012 - 5:56 pm

    Maraki, congratulations for your blog.
    It’s full of light,colours, sensitivity
    but above all, it’s full of love for your country
    and its People.
    Bravo
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  • Φωτεινη Γκετσου23/03/2012 - 9:54 pm

    Αγαπημενη μου !!!

    Ειναι Υπεροχο!!!

    Η ομορφη ψυχη σου και η ευαισθησια σου αποτυπωνοντε και σε αυτη την δημιουργια σου!!!

    Οι φωτογραφιες του κ. Δραζου με ταξιδεψαν!!!

    Αξιζετε καθε Επιτυχια!!!

    χιλια φιλια

    ΦωτεινομπαλουReplyCancel

  • Peter Macken31/08/2012 - 11:56 am

Comfort food with a character. If you have ever stayed too long under the sun, lets say in one of the most beautiful beaches of Crete, like the Ballos beach, you know that after a while even if you close your eyes, you can still see the emerald and turquoise shades of the sky and […]

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  • ElinaGr19/03/2012 - 10:37 pm

    I’ll never forget the day when I went to Ballos beach!! The white sand and the turquoise water…oh! I thought I was in paradise!!One of the most beautiful landscapes in Greece! And after a long day in Ballos beach, feeling so hungry, we tasted the delicious chaniotika skaltsounia and other traditional cretan recipies drinking a lot of raki!!!ReplyCancel

  • Eduardo y Maite08/04/2012 - 3:33 pm

    Las fotos de esta página son preciosas. Cocinaremos en casa las recetas, pero el resultado será peor que el de vuestras fotos. Un saludo desde España ^_^ReplyCancel

If Gaudí lived in Greece… …he would had chosen to live at Emporio village, in Santorini. This beautiful settlement that once used to be one of the island’s castles and seems to have been made of modeling clay is an example of the traditional way of planning construction in the Aegean islands. I am sure […]

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Thoughts while looking out my window…   I am standing in front of my window, watching the ferry sailing. It must have left Naxos about an hour ago, and it is now sailing to Ios and Thira. A few hours later I will watch it return with all its deck lights on, like floating candles, on […]

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