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Skopelos Animals

If you wander along the paralia in Skopelos Town and look into the water you always see some fishes bobbing around, ranging in size from teeny tiddlers to quite substantial beasts. Junior especially likes looking for them and wants to catch one and keep it in a bowl so she can watch it. I’ve told [...]

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Lighten up, you’re on holiday

Just had another enjoyable meal in Englezos’ (3rd time this week – well it saves on the cooking!), marred by one small incident. As we go to Englezos restaurant a lot, in winter and summer, Junior likes to wander around looking at things and chatting to people. In winter she likes to help Spiros with [...]

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Vices

I don’t have many vices, I don’t drink to excess and I’ve never smoked but there is one thing I must have at least once a day – chocolate of course I therefore see nothing wrong with paying a bit extra for a quality bar (or more accurately, I don’t object to Sean [...]

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Not all fun in the sun

Well Junior is now off school for three whole months’ – read it and weep – I do! I must have been extremely wicked in a former life because there is absolutely no rest for me at the moment. Housework slid by the wayside a long time ago but even letting that slide I still [...]

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Sun, sea and sadness

Well Sean’s parents returned home yesterday after enjoying a thoroughly good holiday with great weather. Junior enjoyed it as well of course and was most upset to be waving her nana and grandad off at the port. They promised to return again but with Junior really having no concept of time, she assumed they meant [...]

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