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    6 professionals talk about how COVID affected their life and business

    COVID has been affecting our lives since last winter and it looks like we will have to deal with it for a while. We are in the middle of a second wave and the…

    04/11/2020
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    What would you like to know about Santorini in COVID time?

    If you are thinking to travel to Santorini during COVID time, you might have some doubts. In the last weeks, I’ve received some questions from you regarding the situation in Santorini during COVID, this…

    03/08/2020
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    10 things to know for your first post-COVID flight to Greece

    As you might know, I got back to Santorini after spending four months in Italy so I just had my first post-COVID flight to Greece and I thought it might be useful to share…

    14/07/2020
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    Books about Greece: The Great Chimera

    The Great Chimera (Η Μεγάλη Χίμαιρα) is a great book that everyone moving to Greece should read.Written by M. Karagatsis (translated in English by Patricia Felisa Barbeito), one of the most important Greek novelists,…

    16/03/2020
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    A down to earth life in Santorini

    Full moon days in a month, this is what I just typed on my google search. Not that I did not know but I wanted evidence.I have never given much attention to this natural…

    09/03/2020
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    Living in Santorini – Loud thoughts

    I have been living in Santorini for three years now. 36 months ago exactly today I was arriving at the Athinios Port with my big suitcase packed with my clothes, hopes and dreams.I vividly…

    06/03/2020
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    Santorini in winter: visit the Archeological Site of Akoritiri

    The Archeological Site of Akrotiri is something you should visit in winter, in spring, in summer and even in autumn, on a sunny or rainy day. In my opinion, you should think about it…

    07/02/2020
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    Santorini in winter: visiting the Red Beach

    The Red Beach is one of the most visited locations of Santorini, I would say that it stands in the top 3 spots to check out for most of the people coming to the…

    04/02/2020
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Love letter to my village. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is not the first love letter I wrote for Akrotiri. It's weird like lately I wrote more love letters to places than to humans. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am not very good with love relations with humans but apparently, I am better with places. I think I honestly occupy too much space in the life of a person while I can expand as much as I want in the space of a place. Maybe, for this reason, I love living on an island, because I need to feel at some point that there are some borders. The borders make me understand who I am. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This has been for me Akrotiri and its people for the past 4 years. I think they've been the best years of my life till now. At least in this 4 years, I became the person I wanted to be. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love everything about this little village. It made me feel welcome from day 1, I really feel part of the community and it's moving to see the surprise and the sorrow on the face of anyone I am telling I am leaving. But it also makes me feel that I made it, I became one with the place I chose. I completed myself with what surrounds me. Love is about to complete each other, isn't it? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And because my life is a bit fictional, it's good to leave at the highest point of the love story. Sometimes you are in love with someone and then you met someone else and you fall in love again. It doesn't mean you don't love your first one anymore, it's just a new story, a new life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So I am off to Anafi today. I will be on and off in Santorini anyway, I leave a piece of my heart here, to make it bigger in Anafi. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ July has been hard on Akrotiri village, first Pater Vassillis left and now the Italida leaves too. For your records, we are not going to the same place. Good luck to both of us! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you Akrotiri and Akrotirians for all the love you gifted me ❤️
As per every 1st of the month, today I sent out my As per every 1st of the month, today I sent out my newsletter announcing that... I am moving! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yes, I am leaving Santorini. Some people think this is a hasty decision but the truth is I've been thinking about this since last September (I have proof!). And you might have already guessed where I'll move, to Anafi. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For some unknown reason, I could not make it to this island for a long time, until last May. The same moment I arrived in Anafi I felt the same way I did in 2005 in Santorini. This is my (new) place. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A lot of friends are puzzled at the idea I am leaving Santorini, I kind of understand it but also not. I am someone that needs new horizons. No, horizons is not the right word. I need probably new borders. The narrow, the better, it means I can push myself even further and grow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When I moved to London there was a job, when I moved to Santorini there was a dream, now there is me. I can't explain you why I am moving exactly because there is not a practical reason, but who said that there must be one? I can tell you that I am not moving for a man, not for a professional reason, I kind of not have a house at the moment too. But I have a place, I have myself I have new friends. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That's more than enough. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ At the moment I am uncomfortably happy. And I take with my open heart the wish of a dear friend: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ''You will flourish wherever you go!'' ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Speak soon from Anafi! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel
Ports are my favorite places in the world. If you Ports are my favorite places in the world. If you want to make me fall in love, take me to Marseille, Naples, Catania, Athens, Genova... My dream is to travel to Tanger one day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love ports because you can feel the smell of the sea and the smell of the wind, you can smell stories and lives. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stories are there to be told. They can be good stories, they can be bad stories. What doesn't matter is the end of the story. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The port of Anafi is tiny, I'd say sweet. Because there is no airport on the island, this is the only way new things, new people can come into the island. The weather decides if this is going to happen or not, and when. You just need to surrender to the idea that you are not the main character of your own life, there is someone (something) else that is going to decide for you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Welcome to Anafi, the island where every sunrise is sunset and every sunset is sunrise, too. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafisland #anafiisland
In Anafi, I learnt to do things I've never done be In Anafi, I learnt to do things I've never done before. I also learnt to do again things I haven't done for a while. Surely I learnt how to go with the flow. At least for my standards. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am (am I still?) a highly organized individual, who doesn't lose control easily, always try to be a perfectionist, always apologizing even when I don't need to. It's been a while now that I understood that this might not be my cup of tea anymore. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Making mistakes, getting dirty, changing your mind is safe and healthy. That is what I learnt in Anafi. I changed my tickets 3 times. I enjoyed my present time there. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And I learnt that if I trust the co-pilot I can drive anywhere. Give me a 4*4 and I will rule the world! I still do with my (g)Atos! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This was my favourite beach of the ones I visited, Livoskovo. There is a long, dirty, very dirty road to get there by car (there is a trekking path too but I did not do it) and then a quite long down hill. On top of the beach, where you park the car, there is a unique abandoned place, very charming, that makes you dream. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Did I swim here? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafiisland #anafisland
I think my guide saw in me some hiking potential o I think my guide saw in me some hiking potential on Kalamos Rock, so we decided to level up once more our walk and climb the tallest peak of Anafi, Vigla (582m). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This a probably less-known path but I highly recommend you doing it. It is narrow and rough, but it is worth visiting since the view from the top is stunning and you feel surrounded by the Aegean sea and islets. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Walking around nature made me think how much I changed in the past 4 years. Once I used to walk from North to East London with music in my ears, looking down and fast to reach my next job during the day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now I stroll around places I'd never thought I could be able to visit, I didn't know there was a way to do it. I listen to the sound of nature and look around, submerging myself in the present. I am even able to distinguish some herbs and not afraid to explore hidden caves (kind of). Far from being a real explorer, I am learning how to be comfortable in a place that did not belong to me for a long time. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I came back to Santorini with stones, plants, and flowers. I am becoming that kind of collector, collector of stories and memories. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafisland #anafiisland @visit_anafi
In one of my morning walks in the Chora I met an o In one of my morning walks in the Chora I met an old gentleman, it was the second time I bumped into him seating outside his house and I think he remembered me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I said Kalimera and he asked me who I was so I sat with him and we had a brilliant conversation about the differences in between in Anafi and Santorini, the war, Mussolini,... He told me that Anafi is a small place, few people, safe, no crime. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In Anafi some people leave their doors open and I found it a beautiful metaphor of life. If your door is unlocked means that you, as a person, are open as well to the possibility that someone might come in, also uninvited. Might be good, might be bad, you'll get it when it's already happening, it's a kind of risk. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On the other side, if you know (assume) that a door is locked, you just follow the rules, you knock and you wait. But if you know that the door is open what do you do? Enter? Knocking before entering? Wait? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Take your time to discover the Chora when in Anafi, but please do not open all the doors!!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafisland #anafiisland
You know you have a problem when you wake up so ea You know you have a problem when you wake up so early that not even your super professional camera can take a picture without grain! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That morning was very early and it had been a difficult night so at some point, I just decided to go out and it was maybe 4.30AM. I loved driving around the few roads of Anafi. I barely met anyone, at any time of the day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When I started from Kleisidi I thought I could climb up again the Kalamos Rock, for the sunrise but when I arrived I thought that it was impossible for me to go alone up without getting lost in the dark. I can be lost on a full day in the place where I was born, imagine elsewhere... Loser... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So I just stayed for a while waiting for the light to come through. There is magic in the early hours of the day... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafisland #anafiisland
This was my first stroll around the Chora. Not tru This was my first stroll around the Chora. Not true. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I had a first stroll at 8am, after arriving with the ferry around 5.30am. I was desperate for a coffee and I luckily find @argo, a cute cafenio open that became my office for 10 days. But I was tired and overexcited, to take pictures I need to be at peace and relaxed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So this was actually my first stroll in the Chora of Anafi, killing the time while waiting for my first dinner with new friends. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Anafi is a small island. There is the port, there is the Chora, there are many beaches, many trekking paths. I like the idea that everything kind of happens in the Chora. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ While wandering around I had a chat with some locals and I loved the fact that they addressed me as the ''Professor''. I immediately thought 'In Santorini, they call me sometimes the teacher, Anafi is already leveling me up!'. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I enjoyed my quick visit up to the Church of Agios Georgios where I could see Santorini. The streets are a real maze and I will return every day during my stay and discover something new every time. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I am not a big fan of the sunset light, you know that, but here I found it softer, kind of captivating while in the morning is very bold. Quite the opposite of Santorini. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ They are two islands detached by a bunch of km, still, two completely different worlds. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafiisland #anafisland
I only recently realised that from my terrace in A I only recently realised that from my terrace in Akrotiri I can see Anafi on a bright day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So now I know what I am looking at and I look at it with different eyes. What I can see from my house in Santorini is Kalamos Rock. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When I look at it now I can see myself there a few days ago. I can feel my legs broken from the trekking (it's 480mt high, quite a demanding climb). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On the tip of the rock, there is the Monastery of Panagia Kalamiotissa, an abandoned small church. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Anafi is full of trekking paths and this might be the most popular. During the summer people go up for the sunset, spend the night under the stars in their sleeping bags and enjoy the sunrise in the morning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The climb up is tough. If your guide tells you 'We don't talk now, we will have time when we are up there', don't think he's rude, he's just wise... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I did not spend the night there, it was still too cold, I thought I could try to go for the sunrise a second time but I did not make it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This was the first time I looked at Santorini and I felt I was far away. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafisland #anafiisland

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