It's all go as visitors arrive and Greek elections get underway
It's been a busy few weeks at the Villa Oleander. We've welcomed and said goodbye to our first guest of the year, picked up my vintage VW Beetle (more of that in another post), which has jumped back into life thanks to the restoration skills of a local garage, found and bought a Greek car, helped our neighbour build an apothiki, sorted out a route for driving back to the UK, welcomed and said goodbye to my mother and sister and welcomed my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, who will be staying here for a couple of months. I'm pleased to say my dear old mum was treated liked royalty. 'They are angels,' our cheerful lady in the kafenion said of Mother and my sister. Earlier, in the AB supermarket in town, we bumped into another villager who insisted on buying a bottle of wine for the aged parent. 'For the mother of Margarita,' he said, patting my shoulder. 'She is the same age as the Queen Elizabeth.' She is indeed. I didn't like to te...