This is one of the first pictures I have. All neighbours would come and help, and then our folks would go to the other farms. The called it “loans”. One family helped the other. Here they are sowing. My father was like yours, he worked in public works. I mean, they are building a port…
-Is this a cow in the back? (A child points to another picture) -Yes, because I grew up in a farm with cows, calves, a donkey, many hens. And I continue to live in this farm, we have no cows, we have sheep. Which we use as grass mowers, they eat the grass and clean…
-I have brought you something else to see. What do you use to write in your school? What? -I have brought you something else to see. What do you use to write in your school? What? -Pencil and pen… -Pencil? Do you know the old ink pens? The pens. And this…
Also, here in Syros in the past, they cooked many dishes of European cuisine, and they made a very nice dessert. They took chestnuts, which as you know are for Christmas. They come out at that time. So they took chestnuts, boiled them and puréed them. They used to have the food mill and now…
