I am quite excited about the cross over potential though. I love Greece so very much and fully intend to keep going there for a long time to come, even more so with the financial trouble. There is a real level of poverty as well as breathtaking beauty in the country and it feels good to leave a trail of Euros in exchange for souvlakis that I know keeps someone going over the winter.
My
love affair with Greece began when I was eighteen and hopped on a
plane to Athens where I spent the summer lolling about on the beach
and nursing sick turtles. I remember wandering along the beach and
feeling this most intense feeling of freedom. Here I was on what felt
like the other side of the world, all alone, but feeling utterly
exhilarated.
I
suppose that is why Greece has been my go to place in the Summer.
(four birthdays there and counting..!) I love the feeling of sitting
facing the setting sun, beer in hand thinking 'look at me eh? Living
life!' and secretly hatching plans of how I might avoid that flight
home. When we went to the Peleponnese last summer we were driving
along the coast we saw a little house of an English man who had
passed away. He had been a spy based in Greece during the Second
World War and they rewarded him with land for a house anywhere he
chose in the whole country. He went back and forth to it all his life
eventually retiring there where he spent his days reading books,
teaching English and looking out of the turquoise sea. Clever man.
22 and in Greece again! |
If
that isn't enough there's the food (abundance of feta and olive oil,
need I say more?), the people (all wonderful, every single one..!)
and the amazing cultural heritage. So learning Greek is really rather
exciting. I'm definitely hoping to do a language course in Greece on
one of our trips to try and convert my ye olde Greek into modern
Greek and I'm quite convinced that there is no better place to learn
about the letter to the Corinthians than up the road from Corinth,
right? Put that together with long uni summer holidays and a
dissertation to write and....hello! Now where is that passport.....
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