And just like that, it’s gone,” 75-year-old Elpida Voyatzis said softly, standing outside her home in Kiotari – a town left devastated by the wildfires that raged for 10 straight days on the island of Rhodes.
Where once there were acres of trees and vines bursting with grapes, olives, pomegranates and figs, where Elpida and her husband have spent the past 20 years nurturing a bountiful farm, is now a waste land devoid of all but a single tree.
