Busy, busy, busy

Well quite a busy week has just gone by, most of the food shopping done (my favourite marzipan chocolate collected from Lidl) and decorations in the house put up.

This is only the third Christmas we have spent outside the UK, and the first in Greece (the other two when we lived in Australia). Greece in recent years has began to celebrate Christmas more and more (Easter being the main celebrations), but despite this it was a pleasure not to be bombarded with Christmas hype too early; indeed most items in the shops did not appear until early December.

Last Thursday we spent a very pleasant evening joining in a quiz with other ex-pats, and Christmas Day is planned with friends in the next village.

We also had our first Christmas present from on of the locals .... a pumpkin mysteriously appeared at the bottom of our garden.Well at first I thought the dog had''nicked''someones' football!!!! A quick word over the fence in my best Greek (not), it was dropped over by the neighbour (bet she was aiming at the dog!!)
So pumpkin soup al la Dafni ............