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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
  • Santorini in the post COVID summer
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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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I am back! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I made it j I am back! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I made it just in time before ferries were canceled. It's cold. It's windy. It's beautiful. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Anafi 💙🤍 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #lovelettertoeurope #theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #anafi #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #nomadict #loveyourselfmagazine #thebluewhite #elcmood #elculture #anafisland #anafiisland #emeisstinanafi #LVEG
When I decided to move to Anafi, I thought about a When I decided to move to Anafi, I thought about a slow relocation but then suddenly the word slow was canceled. It was sudden and kind of abrupt. They offer me a job in the kitchen of @margarita.anafi and I think I said yes without thinking twice. Why not, I am a photographer! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The experience of working in a kitchen reminded me of two of my previous jobs, as a production assistant at big events and, the second one, as an artist's assistant. I found that working in the kitchen has the same adrenaline and stress as working at a big concert. You have to be present, focus, be quick, find a solution when something goes wrong. And when everything is done and the customers are eating, your energy goes down and it's not over because you need to get ready for the next day, aka cleaning or preparing for the next gig. I could see also some similarities with assisting an artist. I am not a chef and not sure I will go through this path, but I can see the position of a sous chef the same of an artist's assistant. Usually, you are there to learn, to give a start to your profession or simply because you don't have enough talent to be the main protagonist. Your job might be underrated (by yourself first) but the truth is that your work is part of the success of someone else and you have to be very conscious of this to fully enjoy it. I did. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I don't know if I was good or not (not true, I know) but these are the reasons why I am a very good and bad assistant (wherever you put me) at the same time: - I talk a lot - I have an opinion for everything - I am honest - I smile (almost) all the time ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thanks to @effie_anafi and @stefanosanafi for their trust and friendship. BTW my focaccia was ace! T-shirt by @he_m_n_oid best describes my presence in the kitchen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #onequartergreek #theconstantlycurious
''I was thinking about you after our meeting. I th ''I was thinking about you after our meeting. I thought your life carries a great contrast - on the one hand, you are so free from bonds but on the other, you are so bound by the need to survive alone in new places. And I was thinking how self-aware this has made you and with how much courage you take your decisions, but also support them, until you change them. I found it remarkable and admirable (and I think very useful)''. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I survived many times and in many new places. I carry all my previous lives with me in a big bag that for some reason is light and every time I add a new bit it becomes even looser. And I become taller. My dear Dafne, you are right, this is what keeps me going. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today it was a beautiful Tuesday that smelled like Sunday. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope#theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafi #anafiisland #emeisstinanafi
When I decided to move to Anafi my purpose was to When I decided to move to Anafi my purpose was to 'let it go'. I have always been very organized, very neat, very stubborn. I am still very stubborn but I am becoming more relaxed, at least I am trying. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When you live on a tiny island the first feeling you need to learn is to surrender. Surrender to the environment. Surrender to the difficulties. Someone recently told me 'If there is no solution, there is no problem'. And currently, it is my mantra. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If there is no ferry, you don't leave. If you don't have an oven, you don't bake. If there is no pharmacy, you're not going to die. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But you can be present. You can be yourself. You can push your limits and be more creative. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If there is no ferry, you plan your departure 10 days in advance. If you don't have an oven, you make pizza in the pan or take your dough with you and find an oven in the village. If there is no pharmacy, you're not going to die. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There is always a way. And if there is no way, just go with the flow, as if you were water. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 'If we opened people up, we'd find landscapes'. Agnes Varda. This is my landscape at the moment even though I don't like to swim. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I washed my hair yesterday, but I thought 'Fuck it, when is it going to happen again that I will swim in November?!'. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope#theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafi #anafiisland #emeisstinanafi
The only house I found in Anafi has a sunrise view The only house I found in Anafi has a sunrise view. That must mean something. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My new life in my new home has started. I am actually here since this summer but I consider that first period a blender time. I got in 'one piece', quite harsh, stiff on my habits. I let it go, I got shaken, blended with a new landscape, new community, new friends. I came out of the glass the same but different, in another form, melted. Which is the kind of composition that best represents me, I believe. I can adapt everywhere, like a liquid in a glass, smoothly. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Καλή αρχή to me and to the island, with a new fellow! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope#theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #SUITCASEtravels #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafi #anafiisland #emeisstinanafi #lavieestgrecque
Given that I decided to move out of the blue in le Given that I decided to move out of the blue in less than a month, I'd say that life is treating me very well. I'm still in the process of looking for a place, I am living in a caravan. This is a legendary place once home to a special person I did not have the chance to meet. I tried to learn about him but as someone told me, you don't have to learn about him, you should have experienced him. Real caravan life is not very IG but it's handy for me atm and I am enjoying it. I love that I don't have space, I don't have a toilet, I don't have electricity and internet. The less you have, the less you need. Taking a shower at night under the stars with a water hose is awesome and sleeping with the waves sound is a gift. Not having internet for someone who's working digital is a bit of an issue but you become very smart about how you use your phone. I'm working in a kitchen and it's not a joke but I need to put my thoughts in order to talk about it. I wish I could do better but considering the short time I've been here, it's surprising that I still have all my 10 fingers even though some burns. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ At times I have the feeling I am living someone's life, as if I was watching a movie, I watch myself moving into a habitat that it's far from what I've experienced till now. I embody what I'd aim to be but still not am. It's kind of acting but not faking it. It's like looking for that thing you know you have somewhere in the house but you had lost it, it can take ages but at some point, you'll find it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #VisitGreece #mysteriousgreece #lovelettertoeurope#theglasspassage #onequartergreek #lovegreece #travelgreece #explorewithme #theconstantlycurious #the_daily_traveller @discover.greece #mytinyatlas #losttribemag #taxidiamagazine #Ktravel @voyageursdumonde #thegrecianguide #tpjournal #voyaged #sustainablelife #slowtravel #anafi #anafiisland #emeisstinanafi
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

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