Our First Visitors

Family Visitors

Jema, Barry, Caitlyn, Finley, Pippa & Lena have just spent a week over here. They rented a large villa near Sidari with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, a large garden and its own swimming pool. It was absolutely beautiful. We packed a suitcase and ended up spending the whole week with them in their villa and left our little house empty.

Jema and Barry's Holiday Villa
They arrived in the afternoon on Monday so we went and stocked up the fridge with food and booze in the morning, then collected them all from the airport and back to the villa. The boys did what boys do best, opened a beer each &got the BBQ going! Whilst the girls unpacked, sorted out the rooms, dressed the kids, covered them in suntan cream, prepared food. (a fair division of labour I’d say).The rest of the week ran a similar course, we all played in the pool with Finley & Caitlyn, (Caitlyn organised us all of course)

A mans place is .. @ the BBQ

keith n the grandkids
Pip & Lena went out each night & laid waste to the nearest town, Sidari. They soon found the best bars to get cheap or free drinks & the best bars to dance the night away. They lived the life of vampires for a week, coming home later each morning, to sleep off the nigh-time excesses. Oh to be a teenager.

Glimmer twins ready for the town

We managed to drag ourselves away from the pool sometimes, and made trips to visit Roda, San Stefanos, & our home in Acharavi, we hired a boat one day, and a bit of retail therapy had to be done for Barry in Sidari & a visit to the smallish water park also in Sidari and lots of meals out. It was lovely to have visitors, the more the merrier, so if you are feeling tempted, give us an email.

Meal out with the family

Captain Caitlyn Sails our boat

Keith still did his gigs in the evenings, which are going well, and gradually getting busier. Caitlyn and Finley seemed to enjoy seeing Grandad perform, although Finley was more interested in the boobs on the Greek statues around the bar.

They all flew home on Monday back to the rain in the UK. We also flew home on Monday to be in the UK for a week, for Jonathan’s funeral, a very sad week but my family are so fantastic to be around it got us through it. In fact we have come back here even more convinced that we are right to follow our dream, at the risk of sounding clichéd, life is too short.

This week Keith’s Mum and Dad are here to stay, so we will blog next week to let you know how the first visitors to our own home in the sun got on.