Matala
Hippie nostalgia

The whole village, from its seafront to its narrow streets, cherishes the memory of its hippie years, with their bright colours and psychedelic patterns. All the whilst forgetting that the locals of the time, with the help of the priests and colonels, had driven out those hippies who were then seen as a threat to public decency… A memory that has, incidentally, faded considerably, with bars whose playlists blur the lines between California and Jamaica...

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