Tales from Greece: Part 1

By Patricia Williams

Follow the Williams family as they explore the Greek Islands and become engrossed in the sights and sounds. Your emotions will swing from humour to sadness to hope as you become involved in the highs and lows of family life, you will laugh and cry as you watch a mother’s struggles with memories and the need to move forward with hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398488526

Patricia Williams

Patricia Williams grew up in Elyria, Ohio surrounded by relatives and friends, then spent a few unforgettable years in Cumberland, Maryland. She is now retired from a long and satisfying career as a dental hygienist and lives in Olympia, Washington, where she has enjoyed gardening, crafting, tracing genealogy, reading, caring for pets, and entertaining visitors on the same parcel of paradise since 1977. She lives with her spouse, Katy Murray. Learn more about Williams at www.patriciawilliamsbook.com.

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Tales from Greece:

Part 1

Patricia Williams

Austin Macauley Publishers

Tales from Greece: Part 1

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgement

Introduction

The Beginning

The Drive

Wildlife

Viking Warriors Last Trip

Return to Nidri

Finding Viking Junior

About the Author

Patricia Williams was born and brought up in Lancaster, North West Lancashire. She loved dancing and later she opened her own dance school. After marrying Michael and giving birth to four children, Tricia began to have a lust for travel in between attending university and training to be a teacher. She has taught for over twenty years and is now principal/head teacher at Lancaster Steiner School and still enjoys travelling and exploring places with different cultures, whilst still enjoying coming home to see the seafront at Morecambe and her two cats. 

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the memory of Jake who sadly passed away on 27/10/2019. We will always have our memories – never forgotten and forever loved. 

Copyright Information ©

Patricia Williams 2022

The right of Patricia Williams to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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All of the events in this memoir are true to the best of author’s memory. The views expressed in this memoir are solely those of the author.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

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Acknowledgement

Thank you to Michael who has been my rock and sidekick for over thirty years.

Introduction

Who are we? We are a fairly normal family; myself, Michael and four children. I am a teacher and Michael is a mechanic. All sounds normal (although a friend says we are pleasantly nuts) but we do have a lust for travel, we have travelled Europe in a big purple transit van, the children sleeping in the back, us in a tent. We have done the same trip on a motorbike, stopping when we were tired. We have swum with sharks and dolphins in The Dominican Republic, toured the museums and graveyards of Normandy (not another trip to a museum, Jake would say) and toured the valley of the Kings in Egypt to name a few trips, so it didn’t surprise me when Michael suggested a boat. We were impulsive and believed in living life. What did surprise me was the fact that this was no ordinary boat, but a converted iron ice breaker from Scandinavia, completely out of place in a