On the Move

Hello everyone, hope everyone has settled down after the Olympics, bought an English paper last week as there was an Olympic special in it, was really good to catch up on all the excitement, haven’t heard much about the Paralympics though – did it just fall off the radar?

Most of the people who read this blog will already know that I have decided to head back to the UK, my idea of living in Greece for the winter has turned out to be not that realistic for a number of reasons, prime being that there will be no work for foreigners this year, its hard enough for the Greeks bless them, and also the language will be much more of a barrier than I had thought- maybe I should have given myself a fighting chance and chosen a country with the same alphabet! And I’m starting to miss you lot!

But I’ve had a lovely time here – been shown nothing but kindness and have just loved being back amongst Greek people, they’re seem so laid back – I went to get my hair cut yesterday, they said it would be about 25mins so I said I would go and get a coffee – oh came the reply in that case don’t rush, see you in about an hour!

And its not over quite yet. My ferry to Italy is booked for Tuesday night but before then I am heading to Metorea about 5 hours from here. It is famous for having a number of monasteries perched on top of high rock pinnacles – the monks used to be hauled up by ropes and baskets but think they’ve moved on from that now. I am also told that it is a very beautiful part of the country.

I had originally thought that I would go up to the Italian Lakes on the way back but have since decided to take a more direct route as diesel is the greatest expense so afraid George Clooney is going to have to come and find me!  So as before, I’ll let you know where I’m going when I know.

Will post some pictures when I’ve got better internet connections.

So bye for now