A trait of being English is that one is very patriotic. One does not slag off one’s country. Absolutely not. That’s very un-English.
So it was hard making this post. Because we had to say how we felt about returning to England, and not all of it was pretty…
In this week’s travel podcast, we discuss exactly how it felt to return home to England.
The things we (really) miss and the things that, for one reason and another, got right up our nose.
It was all going so well. We had just driven from England to Greece in our little red car, had the time of our lives in Greece and were now ready to turn around and have more adventures in Europe.
And then it happened. The car broke down. Blew up. Bang. Kaput. Two miles outside of Calais.
Of course, we were devastated. Gutted. Panicked.
How would we continue our trip? How would we get back to Italy in time for our six-week housesit that we had committed to in Tuscany?
And more importantly…HOW MUCH would the repairs on our little red love bug investment cost us??
To an outsider, it all looks so idyllic.
A husband and wife swanning off to a Greek island to be with their darling kid cherubs.
But what’s it really like in Greece? What is happening behind closed doors in Greece? Behind the half-open crack?
In this week’s podcast, Liz and Brian discuss cats, criminals and being left to starve because they weren’t quite Greek enough…
If this doesn’t make you laugh and want to visit Greece, I don’t know what will.
Last week, a member of our private community who lives in the US, attended an interview for a job in New Zealand (exciting!)
One of the questions that were in the interview preparation pack was:
“How might you describe the kiwi culture?”
In this week’s show, Brian and I pass on the comments from other members in our NZ Ahead community and share with you what those who have been living in New Zealand for a while have observed about the Kiwi culture.
Would I be wrong in guessing that you’ve dreamed of spending a few glorious weeks in Greece with your family at some time in your life?
An idyllic Greek Island vacation. A trip to Greece.
Have you spent hours (dare I say weeks) drooling at pictures on the internet of golden sand beaches and flat-roofed white houses that can only be found on an island in Greece somewhere in the middle of the Aegean Sea?
You and me both.
I can’t tell you how many times I have typed into Google ‘What does a Greece vacation cost’, only to be forced towards twenty million ads that never give me a straightforward answer.
If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times: How do you afford to travel the world? Are you rich? How do you afford to keep taking so much time off to travel?
Why haven’t you got a proper job?
I cannot wait to share this episode with you!
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that we would be a couple who could say, ‘We have location-independent jobs and get paid while travelling the world’.
Never.
Yet it seems that’s exactly what we’re doing.
I’m Liz, and this is my family.
I do Travel. I do Wine. I do being a mum to big kids. Sometimes I do all three at the same time.
I don’t do hormones. Or looking perfect for Instagram. Or dieting.
Read more about who I am and why we should be friends on our about us page.