Some random events brought me to Shadow, and so in a full three days with summer weather and focusing on November 21st - the Entrances of the Virgin -, I had the opportunity to see that something is moving on this magical island, which wants to eliminate the image of the typical tourist destination and enrich his quiver with new weapons that will raise the level of services provided. To fit the deceitful culture, the local gastronomy with traditional Skiathos flavors, and the alternative thematic tourism. Continue reading →

For many the Messinia is considered the land of the Promise since everything is produced in this place. From its world-famous oil and Kalamon olives to figs, raisins, citrus fruits, table grapes and for wines, vegetables, watermelons, prickly pears, peanuts, aromatic plants, Taygetus herbs, wild grasses and finally livestock products. Continue reading →

Once again his festival Nikolaou Celemente was the occasion, to gather the 24 islands of the Cyclades and present their local cuisines, and its representatives to exchange their news, their joys and their sorrows, but above all to feel that they are its body Cycladic cuisine. Continue reading →

That's it trek to Lemnos in the summer of 2018 was provoked by an invitation for the events of the Gastronomy and Wine Festival Lemnos Philema, which took place in the old port of Myrina in Lemnos on July 27, 28 and 29, 2018. Continue reading →

Concluding my summer travels and on the occasion of the events and festivals that take place in most parts of the country, this year I will stop at Oinoxenia 2017. Oinoxenia - landscapes and flavors of Aegialia is a series of events that take place in late August in Aegialia for five years, which impressed me for many reasons and for this reason I will deal as much as I can in detail and documented. Continue reading →

His events Authentic Big Blue and Amorgos Gastronomy Week are completed after winning the hearts of the participants in them (our reports will follow). The dual goal seems to have been achieved. Continue reading →

Something new was born in her gastronomy Hermione, a fact that we had the opportunity to find out in the gastronomic trekking us in the area that lasted about three months and had many routes.

Continue reading →

Tradition says that in Greece tsipouro began to be made by monks on Mount Athos. From Byzantium onwards, the monks of Mount Athos and Meteora knew how to make tsipouro and drink it. They took care to keep the alchemy of distillation and to give us generously the art of tsipouro. Continue reading →

A 24 hour in Arta is enough to make you fall in love with her. It happened to me last year and since then I had promised myself to get to know her better. Continue reading →

Η Messinia from prehistoric times - it was the most densely populated place in the Peloponnese, mainly due to the fertile valleys - was considered "the land of the Promise". Great men, such as Euripides 25 centuries ago called it "Kallikarpi", while Charilaos Trikoupis, the greatest Greek politician of the 19th century, once said about the Messinian land: "and to plant umbrellas, they will bear fruit". Continue reading →

In the “Ode to Santorini”In the Orientations, o Elytis describes the island of lava and infinite beauty as "the daughter of a great wrath", while a little further down he says of Thera:

Continue reading →

Η Paros does not have its high mountains Naxos, its take-off winds Mykonos, the wild but impressive landscape of the Caldera cliffs in Santorini.

The Parian mountains and hills are low, fading sweetly to the shores, the beaches are full of secret attractions, while the archeological findings, in the museums or in the excavations of the island testify to its long historical path.

Continue reading →

Of all the Aegean islands - and I have visited the most - what my heart skips when I step on its soil, is the Mykonos. I do not understand how and why, after so many disasters it has suffered and after so many disappointments I have felt about it, Mykonos remains today my favorite island. The journey to Mykonos begins.

Continue reading →

The trek to Naxos includes unique gastronomic experiences, but also parties with Naxian music and dance. THE Naxos, the largest island of the Cyclades and at the same time the most fertile, has a brilliant history, which are protested by innumerable monuments from all historical periods and are scattered everywhere. Continue reading →

The area of ​​Drama could not be characterized as a tourist destination, nor a place with special development, since it remains one of the prefectures that have the highest unemployment in Greece.

And yet, the place that has suffered the most economic blows in the last 50 years - the departure of tobacco shops in the 1970s and 1980s, the extinction of the hundreds of garment factories that have been exporting for the last twenty years - has a reason to smile.

Continue reading →

If there is a tourist island in Greece, which for the most part keeps intact and very well utilized its natural, built and cultural environment and especially the so cheerful character of its inhabitants, surely this is the noblewoman Corfu.

Continue reading →

Blessed island by the gods, thanks to the generous gifts of nature and history. Untouched and fertile nature, proud mountains with a long pastoral culture, imposing gorges, caves, plateaus, plains with thousands of olive trees, vast vineyards, the richest flora of Europe, a thousand kilometers of coastline, with the Cretan cuisine, the healthiest and most delicious cuisine in the world, the Crete is the cradle of European culture.

Continue reading →

"Nowhere else in the world,
the sun and the moon do not rule so harmoniously,
do not share their power so fairly,
as much as on this piece of land
who once, who knows, in what times improbable, what god,
to have fun, he cut and blew away
same maple leaf in the middle of the sea. ”

Odysseus Elytis

Continue reading →

The trek to Kefalonia is entitled "The Kefalonia I loved, Because it has a very personal character and is not a Kefalonia as touristy as we imagine it or as it became known from the film shot there "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", which gave the island an international radiation.

Continue reading →

The trekking us in dreams Zagorochoria, in December 2015, had two allies. A sunny weather that came from a prolonged sweet autumn and an excellent guide, Vassilis.

Continue reading →