Blogs in May 2024

Terrible With Raisins 19th May 2024

There’s a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones…Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to...

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Some Day I’ll Fly Away 5th April 2023

Jane is oh-so-predictable, risk-averse and heavily reliant on her three friends whom she has known from childhood. So why does she decide, in her forties, completely out of the blue, to move thousands of miles away, alone? More importantly,...

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Jason and the Sargonauts 3rd June 2016

A mysterious iron chest arrived on the island of Symi, Greece in 1882 and was immediately hidden for its own safety. 121 years later and Jason is working as a holiday rep for SARGO holidays. When his grandmother turns...

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The Judas Inheritance 3rd June 2016

An ancient curse? Desperation in the economic crisis? What is causing the suicides of so many adults and children on this small Greek island? When Chris Trelawney arrives on the island to take away his late father’s belongings, he...

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Village View 3rd June 2016

A year living on Symi, a Greek island. James’ blog posts from 2013, edited and set out in printed form with images by Neil Gosling, take us through one whole year living on a small Greek island in southwest...

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