We’ve been attempting to restart our blog several times. With all the adjustments to the new country, administration in Belgium and Greece, exploring, finding our way, busyness at work, we kept postponing it. But we are going to make up for it!

We have now been living in Greece for 1 year and 9 months, and we like it very much. So much so that it’s time to decide. We are emptying our house in Belgium to put it up for sale soon. Then we will look for something to buy/build in the area where we live now.

We first lived in a rented house in Agios Nikolaos( Messinia) for 1,5 years. Beautiful and very large house, 600 metres from the sea, 1.5 km from the village’s little port. The extra flat at the bottom of the house was ideal for visitors, and there were many. But the American owners retired and moved in themselves. We now live 5km away in Neochori, a mountain village 3km from the sea and 200m high, in a house we rent from a Belgian couple.

Keeping in touch with our children in Belgium is super important for this adventure to succeed. There is of course a WhatsApp group and we zoom in once a week, preferably all together. They occasionally come to Greece and we occasionally come to Belgium. We search our way in this together.

Life is very different here than in Belgium, and we start to feel that every time we come back. That is probably what you are most curious about. It’s far too much to tell all at once, but we’ll write more about that in some of the next posts.

Many greetings to you all,

Bart & Els