Plomari ouzo images from Antarctica

Dear Mr. Romanos,     

Thank you very much for your kind email and also for making what I think is one of the world's great drinks (actually, THE best!)  I have been enjoying it over the last few months while I have been stationed here and am only sad that I will run out before the first ship of the coming summer season arrives in October.  BUT, thankfully I will have one of my friends in Australia send more down on that ship!  

My name is Paul Munro and I am an Australian working at one of Australia 's Antarctic Research Stations, called 'Casey'.  You can see more information about our station by going to the Australian Antarctic Division's website at http://www.aad.gov.au and then clicking on the pink coloured link on the right hand side called ‘Casey’.  

I acquired a taste for your Ouzo on my first vacation to Greece many years ago.  Since then, I ask for it whenever I eat at a Greek Restaurant or, if I am lucky, at a pub in Australia . Of course, a year in the Antarctic without Plomari Ouzo would be unthinkable and so I traced up your Australian distributor and they were able to tell me where I could obtain it in Sydney .  I then phoned a friend in Sydney and he was able to get the last few bottles the shop had before the final ship sailed in Antarctica ’s summer season (February 2008).  

      My job is threefold.  I am one of the station’s electricians (there are two of us here) and then I am also the supervisor of the other tradespeople at Casey as well.  My third and final job is as the Deputy Station Leader.  

      There are nineteen expeditioners at the station and we arrived here in October of 2007.  Initially we were with about forty other expeditioners, making the total over the southern hemisphere summer (October to February) of about sixty people.  But from the middle of February this year the nineteen of us have been left here alone.  No ‘planes, no ships, no physical contact with the outside world until October!  

      Understandably, socialising is very important for us here, being so isolated from the rest of the world and only having eighteen other people to talk with for about eight months of the year.  I am not what you would call a ‘big drinker’ but, when I do sit at our small bar on a Friday and Saturday evening and talk with my friends after work, I only drink the best.  Of course, that is Plomari Ouzo.    

      The actual photo that I sent to Tivarnos Imports in Australia was taken at one of the oldest existing buildings in Antarctica at the old ‘Wilkes’ Station.  Wilkes Station is a few kilometres from Casey and has been abandoned for many years.  It was first built in 1957 by the Americans and then was handed over to the Australian Government not long after that.  The ‘Australian Antarctic Division’, part of the Australian Government’s Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (my employer) still maintains one of the buildings at Wilkes and we use it as a sort of recreational hut, to allow us some time away from Casey occasionally.  The building is called the ‘Wilkes Hilton’.  I will sometimes go over there on a Saturday evening to just relax with my friends and sip good Ouzo J  

      I will enclose another image of the particular trip on which your first photo was taken. Please feel free to use any images you have at your discretion.  Unfortunately I do not think the resolution of the image will make it of much use to you, but, once again, please feel free to use them.  

      Thank you for making great Ouzo and I’ll think of your sunny country every time I have a glass of Plomari down here.  After all, it is the taste of real Greece !  

Kind regards,  

Paul Munro

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