Mater Natura
By Olga Antoniadou
Some of the most exciting encounters occur by complete chance. For example, this past August, in a need to flee the incredible heat, the smoke and ashes of the fires in Attica, and the crowds we imagined would be flooding the islands, we visited our beloved Zagorochoria in Epirus. Mind you, I have never seen so many people visiting the mountains during summer vacations in Greece. Not such an imaginative idea, after all. We stayed at Oresti’s House in Ano Pedina, and the very hospitable architect owner Eleni Pangratiou introduced me to winemaker Vassilis Vaimakis, who happened to be a friend of hers.
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