Finika one of the 4 villages of Oia

Yesterday i had the pleasure of visiting Finika as it had been a while since been there and it was as refreshing to touch base again with the residence and strolling along those narrow paths and hearing the chatting and laughing from a warm neighborhood on a sunny afternoon while they relaxed under the shade of their gardens or canvases over local wine or coffees after their long finika  family lunches.  

                                      

 The feeling of how this village use to be before the earthquake in the 50's is pictured in my mind after several chats over the years with the people when i hear and stroll pass each house of how the men would be off at sea with their boats or in their fields while the woman would walk into what is now known as Oia working in the mills producing the woven mats for the exporting trade at the time or making the socks that were needed for the sailors of that period .

When i pass these grand archways i picture the wine traders waiting on the wine merchants going in and sampling the different barrels and buying, to then been transported to the hull of the ship into the grand barrels and sailing to other islands or other countries. It is the starting season for harvesting the grapes with their feredini knives and you can still see in some villages the local men gathering and pressing the grapes using the traditional method of shoes and socks off in a stone made large basin with singing and their last years wine .....If you are in finika go to http://www.krinaki-santorini.gr/krinaki/krinaki/home_eng.html and check inside and you will see  if i can discribe them as two wine wells the bigger of the two been for the white wine and the smaller for the visanto a white grape that is left in the sun to become a sweet wine.