A chance read magazine article found in a Dentist’s waiting room sets Nick Perry, his wife and 3 children off on a quest to find a home in Greece. They’d sold their Welsh farm and looked for a better way of life – and a better climate. They landed, rather by accident on Icaria, an island midway between Naxos and Samos and there began their adventure – and the need to find a living. I liked this travel adventure a great deal, the family aspect gives another dimension, their relative poverty gives it forward momentum and of course, there is beautiful Greece making this a very good read for a dull autumn day. ~ Sue Baker
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Leaving their Welsh hill farm behind, Nick, Ros and their children arrive on the little-known island of Ikaria in 1978, having impulsively boarded the first ferry leaving Athens. Escape to Ikaria tells the story of how they become involved with the islanders and their way of life. Nick tries his hand at anything to get by: night fishing out in the Aegean, unloading the potato boats from Samos, mixing cement for wayward house-builder Datsun Jim, and tending the gardens of the old monastery where a solitary nun, Sister Ulita, controls the village's water supply.
Escape to Ikaria features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Biographies & Autobiographies, Travel, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
Escape to Ikaria is available in Paperback, Ebook
Escape to Ikaria was written by Nick Perry and published by Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited an imprint of Birlinn General
Escape to Ikaria has 245 pages
