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A great majority of the Spetses tourists are repeating visitors. They have visited Spetses once at the past and they just can’t escape this place! It is a fact that it takes only a few steps on the ground of Spetses, to make you feel attached to this place and in some way feel that you have found your distant homeland. It is a mystery to feel so close to a place that you visit for the first time in your life.
Greeks are raised with the ideal of Hospitality, thus the Spetsiots could never be an exception to this rule! Hospitality in Spetses is experienced to the peak! Locals will welcome you and give their best to make you feel like home, as they will share with you the secrets of their island, lead you to the mystic path to find your own Edem..
They are so confident about this, because they know that the island belongs to the people living on it, to the people missing it and to those who are nostalgic about it…
So, don’t be surprised if your next-door-neighbor calls you in for a cup of Greek traditional coffee, for a little chat and enjoy a granny’s or a grandpa’s welcome smile, as you wander along the pebble-roads. After you take your first step on the island, every local considers a duty to welcome you and assist you on exploring this mini-paradise! This is not acquired, but written in the genes of every Spetsiot!
Besides your exploration and discoveries, there is something that the nature of the island digs out of your heart! There is this magic feeling, so hard to describe… like awakening romantic memories of your childhood, even if they have never actually happened! Memories of lovely moments of our childhood, playgrounds and tender feelings, friendships that meant to last…
This place is full of fairies that sprinkle you with their magic fairy-dust and you become a child again! It’s not just the people on the island, it is the Island itself!
Holidays at Spetses can be described as a nice little nap, after a stressful day.
Either way, this island grows in you and becomes your Island. The attachment is so strong that you just need to come back and back! And when you arrive back at Spetses, you feel as you join your best friends. Just like the last day at school, before summer holiday starts! You can’t really escape the lovely memories of your childhood, here! It is like an initiation, identifying you with the Island, but there is not any procedure to follow! It takes only a walk around and the Island will reach your innermost.
Many of the Island’s visitors have decided to buy a house here and impatiently wait for their next visit. The Spetsiots consider them as a part of their society. They have become locals, as well. It takes just a few repeating visits to make yourself a part of the Spetsiot family and to start looking forward to your next visit to the Island, to your friends, to your family… They become more than a part of your life, they become necessary!
What could be better than visiting a beautiful place and finding there people that have been waiting for you, to share a cup of coffee, a long-drink, a delicious snack and are eager to listen to what you tell them?! No matter how often your visits to Spetses are, your best friends will be there for you…
Π.Καναβός
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