Step back into history to explore a little-known alliance between Norway and Italy’s Ancona shipyard, that involved a most unusual payment plan.

In the pristine waters off the coast of Croatia, just outside Dubrovnik, Pero Sare and his family have been farming oysters and mussels for generations. These delicious gems of the sea live just beneath the surface and take about a year to grow to maturity.

What happens when you take hundreds of colorful bottles of ouzo and other spirits, add oak casks brimming with brandy, then mix in a colorful owner?  You get the magical setting that is Brettos, a “locals bar” like no other.  Join Karine as she explores this Athens treasure.