A few weeks before my father met my mother, his aunt read the future in his coffee cup. She told him that she saw the shape of an aeroplane and a heart, which she inferred meant that he would meet a foreigner and fall in love. My father had scoffed at…
“Her olive-skin was smooth and supple, her dark doe eyes lined with fluttering eyelashes, and her hair fell in tight ringlets down to her waist. As for her armpit hair…” Just another stereotypical Greek description which is quite often, completely untrue. Ok so the dark curly hair might be prominent (but…
Can you feel the love tonight? If not and you don’t know what to get your other half this Valentine’s Day, then this list might just save your bacon!
Every year I set myself a reading challenge and every year I fail! I usually set myself a target number on Goodreads but last year I didn’t finish half the books on my list, so this year I am planning to change all that. I tend to read a lot of…
New year resolutions are very easy to make and even easier to break, as many of us find come mid-January when we just can’t be bothered anymore. My Greek family are exceptionally proud of their own statement that they ALWAYS stay true to their word. But when it comes to resolutions,…
I just wanted to write a quick blogmas post today to address the topic of the big guy in red. No I’m not talking about Papou in his festive pyjamas, I’m talking about SANTA CLAUS! I had a magical childhood and Christmas is at the forefront of my most magical memories. Each December…
Not sure what to get your Greek man this Christmas? Thinking a back wax voucher will suffice? Or maybe even some Grecian 2000? STOP. RE-THINK. THIS IS A GREEK MAN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. So only a MECENDES will do.
Benjamin Franklin did it. Sir Richard Branson and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz do it. And now I do it. Yes people. I have joined the 5am club. (Yawn).
Now that summer is well and truly over I’ve finally got round to sorting out my holiday photo album. This summer I decided to organise a bit of island hopping and tick off a few more ‘Must See’ places on my growing bucket list, which included a few more Greek…
So you’ve waxed your legs (or chest), treated yourself to a manicure, dolled out the euros/dollars/etc, and packed the suitcase. Now all that remains is the most important task of all: Downloading a whole new set of books onto your kindle. While I still prefer a nice, clean-smelling paperback, I…
Before I was allowed to wed my Greek man, we both had to undergo a very traumatic experience at a Greek hospital in Cyprus. VERY TRAUMATIC. So traumatic that I had to lie down for the rest of the day. We both had to have a blood test.
I realised recently that despite the fact that I have been to Cyprus more times than is strictly necessary, I haven’t yet written a blog post about my husband’s mother land in my Greek Girl Abroad series. So here it is.
Greeks LOVE to talk. There is absolutely no denying it. Tell one person a story on Monday morning and you can guarantee that by Tuesday morning the whole village will know your business, although of course the story will now have several variations, having gained momentum and various fictitious ‘facts’ along the Greek grapevine.…
What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. It gets shared on my blog. And various other social networking sites. Last week I ticked off a destination on this years bucket list and made my first ever trip to the US of A with a three day visit to Sin City. Take note, a…
In the UK, it has been claimed that one in five adults struggle to read and write – that’s 8 million adults who are deemed functionally illiterate with an apparent reading score below level 2 (a report by the Sutton Trust 2016). Worse still, that’s 8 million adults who can’t read…
Over Christmas I treated myself to a nice shiny Kindle. I was always against Kindles. I prefer to physically hold a book in my arms and lovingly sniff the pages…well…not sniff…but you know, they have that nice booky smell…OK I’ll stop talking…
Christmas is the perfect time for movies. I love snuggling up by the radiator (we don’t have a working fireplace), switching on the Christmas tree lights and catching up with a nice feel-good film. When we were little, my sister and I used to draw up a list of movies…
