If you ask the locals for a unique souvenir of this lovely Island, I promise you everyone will recommend you the same thing: Mastic! The chiots are very proud of it alright, but they also have reason to: From chewing gum over body lotion until glue (I’m not kidding!), Mastic is a real allrounder and can be used for literally everything. Especially the south of Chios is full of tiny Mastic trees and the villages there are generally called mastic villages, because their economy is mostly based on the cultivation, harvesting, production of different products. The local people there are […]