''..He is also consumed by love for Kythira,
an obscure and idyllic Greek island between the Aegean and Ionian Seas.
“I’ve been to hundreds of places,” he said, ”but what I felt there I
had never felt before.”
He has bought
up the historic center of Aroniadika, the all-but-abandoned village
near the center of the island, and plans to open an academy of Greek
gastronomy there. He owns about 20 buildings, half of them in ruins, and
two houses. One he describes as “comfortable,” the other, 100 to 200
years old, as “primitive.”
The primitive house he reserves for himself. “I prefer to stay in the one with the worms and the scorpions,” he said.
The
house is about 300 square feet, with a sandy floor, a small kitchen, a
fireplace and a plywood board covering a hole where grape pressings were
stored..''
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