Artemis Nomikos has seen perhaps more of Santorini’s famed sunsets that anyone else – 70 years worth from the tiny cave house on the volcanic cliffside of Imerovigli where he has lived since 1947, seeing the village – and island – transformed into a tourist mecca so renowned it’s the number one choice in the world this year.
Nomikos, 95, sits outside under an overhang of the brilliant white rock amidst a labyrinth and warren of winding narrow trails, smiling and greeting other Greeks who know him by his straw hat and permanent spot, not minding the endless parade of people who gaze at him, who came from other lands to be elbow-to-elbow for a once-in-a-lifetime view of the imploded volcano, the Caldera, on an islet below, and capture the orange sun going down on the horizon.
For him, it’s an everday-in-a-lifetime view if only he can see past the people tromping by: Americans, Chinese, Malaysians, Japanese, Irish, British, Italians, French, Germans, Russians, Canadians, almost all of whom seem armed with cameras and cellphones to take pictures of each other and themselves.
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