The time is right to pick up the thread of our blog again. In spring 2021, we decided to go for our dream of living in a warmer climate. Being in Greece by the end of 2022 became our goal. We started this blog to keep family and friends informed. To get our foreign friends to follow as well, we tried to make the blog bilingual, but then it ran into all kinds of technical problems. Meanwhile, it is all solved  and everything is fine. Our blog has moved to the website www.bartenelsingriekenland.new eu  and can now be read in Dutch and English.

A lot has happened since our last blog post in July 2021.

We have been to Greece a total of 5 times in the last 2 years.

We have chosen the Mani, south of Kalamata, as the region where we want to live.

We have decided that we want to keep our house in Belgium for the time being and rent a house in Greece first. That still leaves all options open: travel up and down, spend the winter or move altogether; see if the region is the right one for us; see if it can be combined with travelling for work.

Els then had a bad traffic accident in April ’22 with a long rehabilitation that threw our timing into question.

And finally, we did find the house we were looking for. We rented a house from 25 November in Agios Nikolaos (Messina/Mani), and we are leaving soon! Bart on 16 November by car, Els on 23 November by plane. Exciting!

We will publish occasional updates again from now on, and tell you more about our Greek adventure.

Bart & Els