Kalimera
We are writing these lines today from Northern Greece.
This, too, has become part of AVRAMIDIS.
Part of our family.
Part of our story.
Part of the path on which our love for Greece slowly became this small brand.
Before Ikaria became our home, we had been searching for many years.
For thirty years, we kept returning to Niko’s home country. We saw many places, spent many summers in Greece and carried many landscapes in our hearts.
But only on Ikaria did that feeling become completely clear.
We did not have to explain it.
We simply knew.
This is where we want to live.
Not because everything was easy there. But because something within us became quiet. Because the island reminded us how simple, original and connected life can be.
Since then, Ikaria has been the place where AVRAMIDIS began.
And yet today, our life unfolds across several places.
Right now, we are in Northern Greece with our family. Here, our eldest son Alexandro is closely connected to the land, the animals and his grandfather’s farm. It is a different kind of originality than on Ikaria – rougher, more rural, more grounded.
In two weeks, we will continue on to Germany. For a few weeks, we will be taking care of the shipping of our products ourselves.
Then we will be standing between storage shelves, boxes, olive oil, honey, herbs and all the parcels that will make their way to you.
Sometimes we think: what a long journey it has been.
From our first longing for Greece.
To our life on Ikaria.
To Alexandro in Northern Greece.
And all the way to each parcel that is packed in Germany and arrives at your door.
And yet, it all belongs together.
Because for us, following a dream does not mean arriving somewhere and everything staying the same forever.
It means carrying that dream into everyday life.
With decisions.
With work.
With family.
With hands that get things done.
With paths we walk again and again.
AVRAMIDIS grew from exactly this.
From our love for Ikaria.
From our deep connection to Greece.
From the people who still make food with care, experience and patience.
And from the wish to pass on something of this life: its taste, its calm, its originality and the connection to the people behind it.
Over the coming weeks, we will take you with us a little.
To Northern Greece.
Into our warehouse in Germany.
And, of course, always back to Ikaria.
Because behind every jar of honey, every bottle of olive oil and every parcel, there is more than a product.
There is a place.
A person.
A story.
And a path we are grateful to share with you.
With love,
Anna & Niko
P.S. Since we will be taking care of the shipping ourselves over the coming weeks, every parcel that leaves Germany on its way to you will feel especially close to us.