Pontos may even today seem like a paradise on earth, with a stunning natural environment that intensifies the longing for returning to family roots, but the people who lived there before the Genocide made sure that in the summer they changed their performance, taking vacations away from the “cities”. “. During the summer months, Trebizond was empty of people looking for coolness and moments of relaxation in the countryside.
Georgios Vafiadis recorded the habits of the Pontians during the holiday period in his article in the Chronicles of Pontus, number 9 (May 1944).