article_snippet.sent: Vassilis mother was trying to make it from His mother home on the island of Ammouliani, only a mile across the Aegean, to the mainland.
article_snippet.sent: It is 90 minutes' drive from the airport at Thessaloniki, along a road that meanders through olive groves and low-lying wooded valleys, into a corner of Greece that is a world away from the fleshpots of the party islands far to the south.
article_snippet.sent: its own beach shelves gently into water, which is astonishingly clear because the Aegean sweeps into the bay and then out again every 20 minutes.
article_snippet.sent: Here, trees heavy with wild figs strain over the roadside and olive trees offer dappled corners of shade.