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Blue Skies & Black Olives

Blue Skies & Black Olives

Author(s): John Humphrys

Location(s): Greece

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Early 21st Century

It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. After all, his son Christopher was already raising his family there so he would help build the beautiful villa that would soon rise there. What could possibly go wrong?
Everything. John was to spend much of the next four years regretting his moment of madness
Sometimes comic, at other times infuriating, here father and son tell a story by turns hilarious and revealing about a country that intrigues and infuriates in equal measure.

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An interesting juxtaposition of different writing styles, father and son. Full of Humphrys humour, and interesting to see how Greece “ticks”.

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