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  Gely’s Garides Saganaki Flavors and aromas of favorite seasonal ingredients travel from Aegina to Paros, deliciously messy and inspiring as summer: an e-mail with photos of Gely’s Garides (Shrimps) Saganaki were enough to make me want to go to the market and start cooking, or at least, head to a tavern by the sea and […]

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Today, I had my first real summer day. A real summer day is a day you are fully tuned with everything summery; knowing that you are. The carefreeness and the heat are basic ingredients to a real summer day, the sea and the salt are optional but they do make all the difference in the world, […]

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We are halfway through June and the last couple of days left us with a strong summer impression. Warm and calm, the kind of days that bring sounds of fishing boat engines and seagulls through open windows and waving curtains just to tease us; there is work to be done and even the hours of […]

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  • Ida Radovanovic30/07/2015 - 8:19 pm

    you really have a special website, can you please post more often 🙂 🙂ReplyCancel

This picture is so characteristic of island life in Greece that makes me smile: even though it was captured in Santorini, you can see a gathering like that outside a small church of Paros, or Sifnos, or Donoussa… People that talk with their hands, while others -in silence- keep their hands crossed as they listen […]

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  • Eleftheria Alexandri16/04/2015 - 10:00 pm

    lovely photoReplyCancel

  • Athina Tagidou27/09/2015 - 12:29 am

    Perfect!ReplyCancel

A different face of Santorini that keeps surprising us with new things to discover: a soft carpet in full bloom just by the sea, on a very windy yet serene day. There are no bad spring days.   photos by christos drazos words by maria alipranti    

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