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Winter sunshine

Junior and I like to visit the beach at least once a week during the winter time. She likes to go because of the sand and I like to go because it’s empty and quiet (until junior gets there that is). We’ve just got back from Limnonari where the sun was shining brightly.

When we went [...]

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Home is where the heart is?

Whilst picking junior up from school the other day, her teacher was asking some of the mums if they’d be going ‘home’ for Christmas i.e. the country they originate from. She was asking because the children will be doing a play and it’s no use them learning their parts if they’re not going to be [...]

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Bright lights, fairly big city

Earlier this week, Junior and I joined Sean in Volos to sample a bit of city life, and bearing in mind that neither of us have left the Sporades for nearly two years’ you can imagine what a culture shock it was – well for me at least, 6 year olds are infinitely more adaptable.
After [...]

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Winter time

We’ve definitely moved in to winter now! It’s cold, it’s wet and the winter woollies are well and truly in use. Now I don’t mind the cold weather as long as you have somewhere warm to go where you can watch the elements battering the windows. Unfortunately this house is not the warmest of places [...]

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