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Hiking the Icon

Author(s): Katerina Nikolas

Location(s): Greece

Genre(s): Humour

Era(s): Present

The newly lean Pappas cashes in on his accidental tapeworm weight loss by scamming the villagers with sales of the dodgy Divine Slenderize. Quentin suffers the unwanted visit of Deirdre’s insufferable vegetarian cousin Gertrude, but finds her sausage stuffing husband’s enthusiasm for all things Greek contagious.

Mail order Masha, surgically restored to her pre-baby glory, catches the eye of the sergeant who makes army life miserable for poor Iraklis. Voula fights off Lecherous Lukas’ wandering hands, whilst Stavroula schemes to get her hands on his money. Nitsa finally goes clubbing, a sudden elopement proves very inconvenient, and Deirdre is alarmed by an invasion of Hell’s Angels.

Against a background of murder, mincing and musical babies, the villagers rush to lose enough kilos to tackle the hill in the annual pilgrimage of hiking the icon. The saga of farcical life in the backwater fishing village of Astakos continues apace in the laugh-out-loud sequel to Goat in the Meze, Rampaging Roosters, Olive Virgins, Goatly Goings On, Greek Capers and Float the Goat.

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