The sign at the entrance of the village seemed like a joke.
Μεγάλο χωριό
It means Big Village in Greek, a rather inappropriate name for a settlement that houses hardly a couple of hundred people. It was already three o'clock in the noon, I was hungry, tired and not in the mood for jokes.
Why did the magazine send me to this godforsaken place?
I had the (bad?) habit, never to read in advance about the places I was visiting. Didn't want to spoil the surprise of a brand new experience!
Not very professional, on my behalf, but I was always traveling with a colleague reporter, to cover my back and to let me be as amazed and as surprised I would like, in every single destination :)
The scenery didn't disappointed me. Not at all. Up in the mountains, among a wonderful fir forest, it compensated me for all the driving in the narrow, serpentine roads (if you have driven in Greece, you know what I am talking about). But I wasn't expecting much more.
I was wrong!
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Apparently this is not one of the many villages that are decaying in negligence, all over the countryside. The fairy of tourism has touched it with her magic wand and it has been transformed into a popular destination! And wherever there are visitors there are stores! With many cute and preferably useless items that they exist just to be beautiful and to lighten your wallet :)
But also places to fill your belly and fulfil all your needs for food, drink or just a cozy warm space to rest! It was November, it was cold and I was in a winter paradise :)
Either the old renovated houses or the new buildings, they all seemed very well taken cared of and in alignment with the natural scenery!
The dusk found me walking around with my tripod doing the job I was paid to do but also wondering if I landed in a fairy-tale! Which is, by the way, the name of the last shop I visited!
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