We wrote about ourselves and about others…

Nikos – “My parents were working a lot so we rarely had a chance to sit around the dinner table together. But from that time I remember clearly the soup of my grandmother – youvarlakia.”
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He was born in Methoni and is a mechanic by profession, but now owns a restaurant. He lived in Athens for a few years, but then decided to come back, because life in Methoni is just better. This village has experienced the biggest changes after the crisis in 2008 – until then people had so much money, that the restaurant was closed just 2 hours per day. After that he could notice people being less cheerful and of course, it was much harder on the business. But now he enjoys cooking for people and talking with his guests about their lives when there is a spare moment in his day. It is funny how tourists often realize, that they prefer life here much better and embrace the Greek culture fully when they travel or move here.

You don’t belong on the stage
Better stay silent
You don’t know much in your age

You don’t belong on the stage
Look, how safe is your cage
Stages are violent

You don’t belong on the stage
Better say silent

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I chose not to believe it

About life

About dreams

About emotions

It is a time when an entire life become a single story. It is that time, when the future means only waiting for the fatidic moment and when the only things that matters are the simple pleasures of everyday life and the memories that you can share.

We met today a simple man, named Stavros, who shared with us 75 years of his life in half an hour. By this, we had the opportunity to found the most important parts in a human’s life, expressed through an old man voice. Stavros, also named Baba or Pappuli was born at the end of the war, here, in Methoni. His childhood ended up at 13 years old, when, because he came from a poor family, he started to work to earn some money and so, to support his family. Being the older one in a family with 4 more brothers, Baba was working in the surroundings of Methoni in olives and grapes agriculture. It was a hard time, he said, but a time that he remembers with proud and happy. When the time came, he was called in the army where he spent 27 months. He received monthly few money from his grandparents, the poorness transforming all of his parents work in an effort of feeding the children remained home. In this time, he has the opportunity to stay in different parts of Greece but his heart remained in Methoni where he returned to live his life. He got married and had 3 daughters that brought to life 5 beautiful grandchildren, that makes him fill grateful.

You can see him know, enjoying a cigarette near a cup of coffee and a glass of cold water, moving his eyes after every car that turns on the street, thinking of the years that pass away, watching the life in the village, a place that basically swallows all his memories.