A family odyssey to success

We are in the late 1960s. Two young people, Vasileios and Katerina, decide to join their lives. They get married and guess what, three children come along. Life is not easy. They work hard to provide the necessities for their family. They do not stop dreaming, they keep working and every morning is better than the last, yes there is hope for a rosie tomorrow!

One dream

In 1986 Vasileiοs Theodoridis decides to make his youthful dream reality and  founds a small tourist business. On a tiny olive grove at the bay of the fishing village of Plataria, right in the Ionian sea, he builts with a lot of struggle and labor, a small taverna and calls it Elena's Beach, giving  the name of his little daughter, Elena. His wife, Katerina, takes over the kitchen, and all three of their children help her in the taverna. Their relatives and friends help in the taverna as well and summers in Elena's Beach are really magic.

The small taverna becomes a favorite hangout for the years to come, both for Greek and for foreign visitors. Vasileios Theodoridis has in the meantime been planting hundreds of trees and flowers. Α small terrestrial effort shyly evolved to a great paradise which very soon it would meant a lot for tourism sector in the area of Igoumenitsa –Thesprotia.