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Make lemonade . . . ” or so the saying goes.
Well, we’ve tried but the lemons keep being too tart (or rotten), the sugar is infested with ants or the water is tainted.
The truth is, it’s been a rough road since we landed in England.
Justin and I finally had a moment of truth and confessed [...]

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Finally settling in and doing some sightseeing, having some meals out (we are already tired of Greek food actually and going to likely brave it and try the one Chinese restaurant…) and enjoying our villa pool.
We drove by to see the villa we were supposed to have had yesterday.  Fantastic view, nice garden.  Didn’t get [...]

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So we are finally here in Greece. The entire trip had been planned around these 5 ½ weeks. Can’t say that it has been an easy road getting here (the planning alone was exhausting) and it seems that each step of the trip since we hit England has been one problem after another.
If you’ve been [...]

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As usual our visit with Alice makes you ponder a lot of things.  A wise woman she is.  And to live to be 92 (almost 93), still living on her own and fully engaged is absolutely amazing.  If you think of what she’s lived through in history it’s pretty crazy.
My ‘take aways’ from our visit [...]

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We are staying at Justin’s Gran’s house.  She’s lived her for over 60 years. It’s a Speke Council House as Justin’s Grandad (Tommy) was a Council Member.  This is also the house that Justin’s Mum, Angela, was born in.  It’s actually quite amazing to just be here with all the family history.  We are lucky [...]

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To Great Grandmother’s house we go…  Heading to Liverpool in a few hours to visit Justin’s Grandmohter, Alice, (and Stella’s Great Grandmother).  Alice turns 93 in November and is strong and full of life as ever.  We are very much looking forward to seeing her.
We originally planned to take the train there and back.  But [...]

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We have a new villa. Bigger actually than our old one but apparently the view isn’t as nice and still no internet.
Justin is working hard to find a solution.
Here are some pictures of the damage from our old villa. We feel terrible for the owners as buying this villa was a family dream [...]

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We just got word that a retaining wall of our villa in Greece has “collapsed.”  This is the worse case scenario of the entire trip.  We planned this entire trip around our stay in Greece so as you can imagine we are quite devastated.  We don’t have the pictures yet of the destruction but will [...]

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Today was the first day in so long that I can say I sat down and said, “what should I do? ” I can’t remember a day when I didn’t have  a million things to run around and do.
Not that I don’t have a million things to do but for some reason I was able [...]

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It’s amazing what a little bit of sleep will do for everyone.
Stella had her own room last night and slept nearly 11 hours…down at 7:30′ish (her normal time) and up at 6:30′ish (her normal time). We all couldn’t be happier.
For parents sleep is like when you are a teenager and you are waiting for [...]

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