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Greece on the ground

Everybody seems to have an opinion on Greece these days but instead of the usual comments about the weather and the scenery, we tend to get questioned more on the financial situation. People want to know what it is like living in Greece in these rather uncertain times. Obviously our experience is going to be [...]

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Surprise guests

The swallows are back in their nest just outside the door and are busy repairing any damage and warding off unwelcome guests. Unfortunately their frenetic flying resulted in an incursion in to hostile territory – well it’s hostile when you have 4 cats!

We were having lunch in the kitchen and I jokingly said that the [...]

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Greek Easter

Took this yesterday on Easter Sunday in Kato Gatzea – it was certainly a wild one!

It didn’t however prevent Junior and myself from taking off shoes and socks and running through the waves. Sean didn’t join in as I think the cold would have been too much a shock to his system!

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Renting in Greece

With the worlds economy in the state it is, it seems that more and more people in a host of different countries will spend the majority of their lives living in rented property, either through the inability to get on the housing ladder in the first place, or through losing their homes due to a [...]

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March already

Carnival has finished for another year and apart from dressing as a pirate for school on Friday, Junior didn’t seem so enamoured of it this year. We were going to go to the carnival procession in Volos on Sunday but she decided she didn’t want to be just watching and being ’static’ – her wording [...]

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