Many people dream of living on a beautiful island in the sun. Fionnuala Brennan realised that dream when she and her husband resigned their jobs...... more
Many people dream of living on
a beautiful
island in the sun. Fionnuala Brennan realised that dream when she and her husband resigned their jobs in 1977 and took their two young children to live on
a Greek
island. On
a Greek
Island is
a personal account of their lives on the
island of Paros where they lived in
a house beside the sea and washed at the well in the garden among the orange and lemon trees. When the family went to live on Paros, the
island was tranquil. Transport was by donkey, bicycle and local buses. Contact with the mainland was restricted to two boats
a week in winter. There was time to get to know the other
islanders, to write stories, to make pottery, to weave and spin, to teach English and to learn Greek. This is an ideal book for lovers of Greece who wish they could spend longer than
a two-week holiday there. It is
a book to inspire other dreamers that it is possible to follow that dream and to find
a renewing way of life on
a small
island in the sun.
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