The Move

 We’ve just celebrated one month in the new abode. It’s been two months of intensity: sorting, clearing, packing and in intense heat. We’re extremely glad it’s over and that there are now very few items still to be extracted from packing boxes.

 It was interesting to sense the different stages of developing a sense of ‘at homeness’. The first stage was actually welcoming staying guests on day 3 of our move. :0 All credit to Melanie – niece resident in New Zealand – and her daughter, Katie, who braved our premises, and kindly turned a blind eye to mess. By then we had the basic infrastructures in place, so they were readily fed and watered but had to gingerly pick their paths to their beds! I was so pleased to learn that they placed Thessaloniki, her people and food high on their holiday ratings.

                               

The next stage was getting mechanisms in operation to give a sense of a house at work. So preparing meals, doing the laundry and an ironing made one feel more established.

A further milestone was hosting an ouzo-meze lunch for neighbours. We still haven’t got proper patio furniture but we did fine as the meal was a prolonged one! 😊 .

 This week the final stages of settling in were marked when we got our satellite tv connected and our wifi boosters in operation – the local area has a woefully weak signal.

To celebrate properly we invited our neighbours for dinner and Z was able to proudly offer them drinks from his new drinks-cabinet. He has wanted this for ages to house his rather large whisky collection.

                                 

Of course, we drank to two fine toasts:

Kaloriziko and slainte mhath - ‘may you settle in well’ and ‘to your health’!