The Host

Originally from Athens, Vici disembarked on Serifos in 1980.  She promised herself to meet the locals, get to know them, make this island her place, be a local.  And she pulled it off: Serifos is really her place now and you may easily consider her, a local.  Since 2010, she guides The Writer’s Home & Guest-home to a sustainable place where human contact, homely care and attention to detail are redefining hospitality, and where hospitality is forging connections that link travellers to a place and its people.

My darling Serifos

More than 25 years ago, walking down the dirt road to Platis Gialos, I fell in love with Serifos: red soil and schist stones till the sea and in the shadow of the tamarisks, the flavors Nikoulias’ wife, the mother of many smiling daughters and sons had to offer. That same unforgettable autumn, I fell in love with a boulderstone in Rammos; some time later with