The island’s natural beauty blossoms with spring, creating a picture-perfect backdrop for the most poignant holiday on the Orthodox calendar. Poros sparkles in the spring, as light infuses the sea with reflections from the pines covering its slopes. It’s the…
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Apokries tradition in Poros
Successive generations of Poriotes are bound by an irrepressible sense of humor and zest for life which can be seen in their daily activities and interactions but comes out strongest perhaps during the weeks of carnival or apokries. Locals’ wit…
Boating Traditions
With a maritime tradition rooted in antiquity, it’s hardly surprising to see the diversity in Greek boatbuilding as the shape of bow and stern and number of masts were determined by the types of sea in which the boats sailed…
Tales of Christmas Past
During Christmas, women cooked and baked special treats like the turkey, usually with a pine-nut stuffing, the Christopsomo bread, and sweets like melomakarona and kourambiedes as well as all the other goodies for the Christmas table. These cookies were arranged…
Hasapiko: The local dance
Ever since Anthony Quinn slid across the screen in Mihalis Cacoyannis’s 1963 film Zorba the Greek, tourists to Greece have been in thrall of a dance that has become identified with the country, and especially its nightlife. Ironically, the syrtaki…