Our Greek Odyssey

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These flowers were also growing on the beach – so beautiful.

The weather has certainly brightened up the past couple of days, and when the weather improves so do moods but I’m struggling not to become complacent and forget that we want to move!
I suppose people would look and think “how ideal, living on a small picturesque island, how relaxing and beautiful”, well yes and no. [...]

As strikes seem to become a weekly occurrence in Greece, people abroad are always asking how things are and how bad it is. Well from the point of view of Skopelos it’s quite difficult to tell! Petrol has gone up again to €1.57 – I nearly crashed the car when I drove past the petrol [...]

…since the last post on this side of the blog but there are reasons. Firstly, and most importantly, I often have periods of lethargy in relation to writing, be it blogs, emails, letters or diary. A lot of this can be attributed to lack of me time due in no small part to the presence [...]

I took the dogs for their walk this morning after dropping Junior at school and apparently no-one has mentioned to the people of Skopelos that Greece is in dire financial straits. From my short walk I spotted 4 houses currently under construction, add that to the other 2 or 3 I see when in the [...]