This book starts its journey with Book Crossing from Delphi, Greece
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" 'A little whitewashed house with a blue door and blue shutters on an unspoilt island in a picturesque village next to the beach with a tavern round the corner...' This was the dream of the Mole family in search of a piece of Greek paradise. But a beautiful view and a persuasive local prompted the impulsive purchase of 'a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung...' In a charming saga of sun sea, sand - and cement - John Mole tells of the back-breaking but joyous labours of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters who helped (and occasionally hindered) his progress. "



~~~~~~To the person who found this book:~~~~~~

Welcome to BookCrossing.com, where we are trying to make the whole world a library!

If you have not already done so, please make a journal entry so we know this book has found a new home. Drop a few lines on where and how you found this book and what you thought of it. You don't need to join BookCrossing and you can remain completely anonymous. However, I encourage you to join so that you can follow this book's future travels. It's fun and free, and your personal information will never be shared or sold.

This book is now yours, and you can keep it if you choose, although I would love you to read and then share it. You can pass it on someone you know or release it once again in the wild, leaving it on a park bench, a phone booth, a hostel lobby...wherever you think it's suitable for the book to continue it's journey. If you pass it along, please make a release note to let others know where you left it.

I hope you enjoy the book!

I bought an other copy of the first edition of this book several years ago from a bookstore on Naxos Town, Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and I remember I enjoyed it a lot. I had read it a couple of times since then but not very recently to offer a detailed review. John Mole describes a Greece that on many aspects is now long gone while in others is still alive and unchanged. He describes the beautiful setting and he narrates his difficulties to build his house, convince his family to follow him, how they tried to adapt to the local scene and foreign culture and to blend with the locals and so on... And while this is nothing new on travel or ex-pat memoirs, the difference with this book is that the author is doing so on a very witty, humorous way which makes reading a real pleasure.

Last fall I was ordering a few books online and I noticed a more recent edition of the book, containing a new chapter. So I bought two copies, one for my permanent collection and one for BookCrossing purposes. I didn't find time to read this updated edition yet, but anyway, here it is and I'm sharing it with the world : )

I hope future readers will enjoy this book and let me know about it!
I'll now set it free to trot the globe and make many new friends : )

This book is now traveling abroad as part of a surprise parcel.

I hope you'll like it!Thank you for joining my second Bookiversary's celebratory draw.


Good Luck my book and don't forget to write home from time to time... : )

Received as part of a surprise parcel from Delphi_Reader! Looks like being an interesting read - thank you :)