Our Story
Sofia Papadimitriou and her brother Alexandros Papadimitriou were raised three streets behind the small market square of Vourvourou, in a house their grandfather Stelios had built with his own hands in 1962 from sea-stones and pine timber. Their father Antonis ran a small *psaroplio* — a fishing boat — that left the cove at four every morning and returned with red mullet, octopus, and the occasional grouper for the few tavernas that existed before the road from Thessaloniki was paved in 1978. Sofia spent twelve years away, working in front-of-house at a five-star resort in Halkidiki's first leg, and Alexandros trained as a marine biologist in Patras and later Plymouth. In 2009 their grandmother Despina passed away and left them the eight-acre slope behind the family house — a stand o
