In addition to being expert cooks, olive oil producers, ouzo and winemakers, Samians have a long tradition in pottery-making. Growing up in Mavratzaioi, my husband remembers 4 or 5 expert pottery makers who would carry their wares on the backs of donkeys to various villages across the island. Of course, large water jugs were the…

Visiting Greece during August ensures you will be exposed to festivals and church services that celebrate various saints and of course the Virgin Mary, during the “dekapenda augusto” (15th of August) holidays, when most Greeks leave the capital Athens and return to their family villages and islands to swim, visit with family and celebrate at…

Samos has some of the best beaches for swimming. If you drive around the island, you are bound to find a wide variety of attractive spots to swim, from shallow sandy beaches such as Psili Ammos, to pebby or rocky jewels, such as Tsamadou or Mikali. But our favourite spots for swimming are on the…

We always must make the pilgrimmage back to the village, the birthplace of my husband, when we visit Greece. Family is still there and are always happy to see us when we show up annually. It is an old village, and like many others around Greece, half abandoned with tumble-down houses next to those that…

Our bed and breakfast is a lovely little apartment in Pythagorio -Mania. It is within walking distance of the town, shops, parking and the water. Of course the nightlife is hopping with a pedestrian walkway through the shops down to the harbour. There were lots of yachts in port, given the windy conditions for sailing…

After several delays ( this seems to be the reality these days) we arrived two hours late in Athens. Then the luggage took forever to retrieve. Other passengers with airtags said their luggage was sitting .2 km away and it was another hour before they finally came through on the baggage belt. Thank goodness our…

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