He’s young, restless, with an alternative, ecological approach to living, which is readily evident in “The Green Project,” his café bar in Drios. Here visitors can unwind over a coffee or drink and an eclectic selection of dishes by a natural cistern. An entire wall is covered with jars of his own jam, and guests are invited to sample never-tasted-before jam cocktails!
For 18 years, Georgia Patte-Karagiannioti has been in the team of ECHO FM, one of the most long-lived private radio stations in Greece that has kept Parians and Antiparians informed and entertained for 26 years now.
Originally from the UK, Vicki Preston has lived in Greece for over 30 years, 20 of them on Paros. She is best known here as the founder of the English-language magazine Paros Life & Naxos Life in 1998. In recent years she has been working on a voluntary basis setting up and expanding the programme of the bilingual Montessori school in Naoussa and as a member of the Innovaros team promoting the sustainable development of Paros.
Irana Ji An is a beautiful young woman of Greek and Argentine origin. Slim, swift and warm with bright eyes she really seems to be living according the principles of yoga, which she teaches. In fact, her aspiration is to encourage people to be the best they can be, through physical practice, self-observation, and trust, as she says.
He is a self-taught artist, painter and a fisherman of sea urchins. Worked in fishing boats since he was 9 years old, pure bred of Naoussa, he “immigrated” to Piso Livadi where he runs the ouzo tavern "Mouragio". She was born in Moschato, Athens, she grew up in Rentis and studied in Ralleios School of Piraeus. She found herself in Paros because she fell in love. Her great loves are books and theatre.
“To Paros” ... said the sign at Omonia station. I turned my head right and left, like a cartoon. I read more carefully. “To Piraeus”. Oh, ok. How you could get to Paros by train, I thought. At least not yet. Still, you can get to the island by ship or by plane.
When my wife and I moved from New York to Paros in 1970, we could never have imagined that we would spend our whole adult life here. Since Hellas is two-hundred years old, that means we have resided here, much of the time as full citizens, for one quarter of its existence.
“If fate”, as they say, “does not love those who have grown old, the reason is that they are now unable to believe in chimeras, in those illusions of the mind ...”
“All mushrooms are edible, but some only once,” notes George Pittas in “The treasures of Greek gastronomy” (Paros: Koilada Lefkon Publications, 2014).
“I lost everything for the sake of the homeland. I lost my position, I fought beyond my strength, and paid the widow’s last penny. I am already dispossessed, and I am suffering great hardship...”
