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About Me

Welcome to my personal space. I’m Moschos Koupoukis, a hotelier, former yacht captain, multimedia creator, and athlete based in Alexandroupoli, Greece.

I manage Hotel Erika, a family-owned hotel on the Alexandroupoli seafront. I’m currently leading a full renovation of the hotel with a focus on modern design, minimalist aesthetics, and smart hospitality technology. My mission is to create an elevated guest experience that blends comfort, efficiency, and elegance.

Meanwhile somer years ago, I spent over a decade (2006–2017) as a yacht captain. I owned and operated a Beneteau Antares 9.80, running private charter cruises across the Northern Aegean—especially around Samothraki, Thasos, and Lemnos. Those years gave me a deep appreciation for the sea, navigation, and the Greek island spirit.

When I’m not managing the hotel, you’ll find me behind a drum kit or learning the saxophone. I’m passionate about music, and I used to produce tracks using Reason. I also enjoy video editing with Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, and often work on creative projects involving visuals and sound.

I’m an active wing foil and windsurf athlete, snowboard lover and also with a love for hiking, nature, and physical challenges.

I also enjoy cooking—both savory dishes and desserts—and you can find some of my recipes on my Cookpad page.

This blog is where I share insights from my life—whether it’s thoughts on business, tech, design, travel, or personal growth. Feel free to explore, connect, or reach out.

I am born and living in the always sunny Greece. I Love computers and technology since my first one : a ZX SPECTRUM 48K which I got as a present when I was 8 years old. I used to spend hundreds of hours on that plastic rubber keyboard discovering the Spectrum computer. I learned to program in BASIC and assembly Z80 machine code.

To LOAD a program or game you had to use a tape (cassette) player and have a lot of patience.. Especially when you had to load/play a lot of different tapes to completely load a program.

My Spectrum 48K was connected to interfaces like the Sinclair MicroDrive and the Currah speech generator. Those were the first years of the upcoming computer revolution.. From black ‘n white-big cubed pixel games in 1980 to Call of Duty Modern Warfare games today!

Around 1986 I got a Commodore 128 with my first floppy diskette drive : a HUGE box with a 5.1/4 disk drive inside.

Some years later I bought a new computer that appeared to the computer market and had extreme graphic capabilities and incredible sound (for the time being): the AMIGA 500.

My first PC (Personal Computer) was an Amstrad PPC Laptop with a MODEM with maximum speed 2400 bps !! That’s 2400 bits per second, not mb/s…

That PPC was running MS-DOS 2.0 and the first graphical system GEM which you can see on the images below. (Windows was not existed yet)

Around 1989 I created the first bulleting board system operating at the Thrace Region. I got a speedier modem, an US ROBOTICS 9600bps, and  my home’s phone line to be able to receive modem calls. When someone was connected the telephone was BUSY since there was only 1 channel on the plain old analog telephone service.

My BBS was named the EAST BORDER Cbcs (2:410/201.0) and people was calling and connected to my message / file board system to read mail from the HELLENIC FIDONET or download files, play games on-line, chat with the SysOp (System Operator) and things like that, which are normal for the internet nowadays but was something amazing for then.

On summer 2008, I got an Apple iMac (just incredible!!!) and today I am a happy owner of a Mac Pro workstation (with 32GB memory and 2 x 2.93 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors that boots into Mac OS X Lion, Windows 7, Kubuntu 64-bit + some more virtual machines.

Apple Macintosh
JUST WORKS !!

Greetings 2 everyone from everywhere!