I come from a beautiful area in Thessaloniki, the neighbourhood of Agios Pavlos, and we could see the whole of the Thermaikos Gulf from our balcony. I have been away from Thessaloniki for 15 years and not a day goes by that I don’t think of it.

Of course, I’ve seen the ancient sites of the Peloponnese (twice) and during my studies in Thessaloniki, I visited some truly amazing places in Macedonia and northern Greece, like Meteora or the Prespes Lakes and Ioannina.