WILD FIG TREE

The Lake of Giannitsa—historically known as Loudias Lake—was once a vast, shallow marshland in Central Macedonia, fed by the Loudias River. For generations, the area was infamous for its dense wetlands, referred to locally as Borboros(meaning &#…

The village of Agrosykia is where my father was born, and it is my most and best memories of Greece as well as my family’s home base Greece. In Greek the name means Wild Fig Tree. But it wasn’t always named, Agrosykia, in fact, it acquire…

Some landmarks stay with you—not because they’re especially grand or famous, but because they were part of the scenery of your life. The Giannitsa Clock Tower is one of those for me. I remember it clearly from my childhood. It was a distinct landmark…

In july of 2008 my father and I visited the village of Cukuryurt, known as Tchouhouri. See pictures on Flickr. Here is the intro of my written account: Tchouhouri, Cappadocia, Turkey, July 2008 We have been travelling on the windy roads of the Turkis…

In the summer of 2009 my father, Georgios Papastefanou completed ten years of work, aided by his late sister Androniki Karekelidou the world’s only Pharasiot-Modern Greek Dictionary. Pharasiot is a language that was spoken in Greek villages in …