It has been some time now that I decided to write down some of the memories and impressions I have collected from the Summer Schools (and parallel Conferences) that were organized in Greece on the topics of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity from 1987 until today. Since I have actively participated, together with many other Greek colleagues, in all these events from the beginning, I thought it would be a good idea to write down their story in one volume that would present in a concise manner our experience within a unifying framework.