Tasos wrote recently about what you can and cannot change in a rental, and the response was something I expected but didn’t fully anticipate. A lot of people are asking the same follow-up question. Okay, so I can’t paint. I…
I put in a request to the landlord before I moved into my first rental and he gave me his ok to paint the bedroom. So I did, but nothing dramatic, just a soft grey that would fit in anywhere.…
There is not much my father Sakis has done for the better part of fifty years that he hasn’t done with watermelons. For most of that time, he was like anyone else in his approach. You look at them, pick…
With a set of permanent hookups in place, your yard or driveway is as good as your own private campsite. You put an end to the business of lugging jugs of water or running extension cords in through a window;…
Our camper came with beige curtains. Or at least, we called them that. It was a beige you don’t want to get to know; the sort of colour you end up with when it’s the most you can be had…
I have a formal apology to make to a desk in Thessaloniki. Not for any ill will on my part, but simply because I put it in motion. I shifted it from one side of the room to the other,…
Every summer I find myself at odds with one room in the apartment. The bedroom, to be precise. It was my parents’ before us and it is where you get the full brunt of the afternoon sun. By evening we…
This post contains affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. See my full disclosure here. From November to April, our camper is put out to pasture. I like to think I’ve done…
You don’t have to be in our summer place in Volos to know the mosquitoes are there. They show up in June as sure as the heat, the hordes of visitors and that distinct odour the sea has in the…
I can put in a new light switch because my dad showed me how when I was twelve or so! We don’t do things by the book in Greek families; he was at it, I was on, and before I…
