Humans of Poros – Virginia Kalyvas (3)

How would our regular day in Galatas look like? Well, I would meet him at the ouzerie at around noon, then come home by boat, I would cook some Greek food, no meat though as George wasn’t a big meat eater. We would eat a lot of pastas, soups like fasolada...

Humans of Poros – Virginia Kalyvas (2)

At the end of 1959 I met my future husband. We met at a bar. I was doing some proof reading work at night for the Athens News at the time and I had a lot of expat friends including some well known writers. We all used to meet at Apotses, a famous ouzerie. We used to...

Humans of Poros – Virginia Kalyvas (1)

My family and I come from South Australia, near Murray river, where I spent the first 8 years of my life. My grand father came to Australia from Scotland in 1880’s, where he founded a pastoral company. He then met my grandmother who was of English descent. After...