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Read all about John's background on his web site, which can be accessed by clicking the link below (Links: John's web site).

You'll also find there hundreds of amusing and enlightening anecdotes from the author's many years of visiting Greece before and since re-locating to Rhodes in 2005. John's work has added insight because his mother-in-law was a Greek. There is some information about his wife's heritage which you can access by clicking the link below.

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Feta Compli!
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How meeting a girl with a Greek mother in a smoky bar in Bath, UK, eventually led to living in Greece. Only it took the best... More > part of 30 years! If you like lighthearted yet informative travel books, this is right up your street. Travel writing at its best. FETA recounts how the author and his wife drove from the UK to Rhodes with all they possessed in a white van, then set up home and began a new life. The book also contains plenty of amusing anecdotes from numerous visits to all parts of Greece over the space of three decades or more. < Less
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A Plethora of Posts
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Volume 4 of the "Ramblings From Rhodes" series, comprising over 40 of the most humorous and informative stories gleaned from... More > six years of living on the Greek island of Rhodes and originally posted on the "Ramblings From Rhodes" blog. Books 1-3 of the series have been hailed for their humour and insight into the Greek psyche. This volume continues the odyssey. < Less
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Volume 4 of the Ramblings From Rhodes series. This book serves up lots of anecdotes and experiences from six years of a... More > British Ex-pat living with his half-Greek wife on Rhodes in Greece. John's earlier offerings have been amusing and delighting Grecophiles for several years and this one is sure to carry on doing the same. < Less
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Moussaka to My Ears
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John and his half-Greek wife Yvonne-Maria moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005, the account of which was told in his first... More > book, FETA COMPLI! MOUSSAKA takes up where FETA COMPLI! leaves off, with Yvonne and John settling into life on Rhodes and coming into contact with some great characters who live around them out there. Plus, there's another helping of reminiscences from past years and other parts of Greece and Europe in general; like the time when Yvonne was Miss August on a calendar that graced the walls of innumerable offices all across Germany after meeting a German businessman on a beach in Corfu. Then there's Manolis, the "Six Million Drachma Man," who climbs olive trees even though he only has one and a half legs! The "Lonely Goatherd" comes by, as does Kostas, the local who shows them which weeds are great to eat. Yvonne helps Greco-Turkish relations during an evening out on Samos and John reluctantly become the elephant man for a while. < Less
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One in Ten
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A short but touching and insightful memoir from a senior who lived through the greatest war in human history. Her cheerful... More > outlook on life is why she coped with some truly horrendous experiences and came through them with her personality unscathed. < Less
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Tzatziki For You to Say
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Part three of a trilogy of memoirs spanning not only almost forty years of visiting Greece, but also five years of living... More > there. As with the first two books in the "Ramblings" series, this is packed with laughs and even a few tears as the reader is taken on the usual roller coaster ride through the author's amazing experiences of the sunshine country. < Less
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One In Ten: Memoirs of an Octogenarian
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Tzatziki for You to Say: Move to Greek Island: No Problem, But Then...Part Three of
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Part three of a trilogy of memoirs spanning not only almost forty years of visiting Greece, but also five years of living... More > there. As with the first two books in the "Ramblings" series, this is packed with laughs and even a few tears as the reader is taken on the usual roller coaster ride through the author's amazing experiences of the sunshine country. < Less
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Moussaka to My Ears: Otherwise Known as
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John and his half-Greek wife Yvonne-Maria moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005, the account of which was told in his first... More > book, FETA COMPLI! MOUSSAKA takes up where FETA COMPLI! leaves off, with Yvonne and John settling into life on Rhodes and coming into contact with some great characters who live around them out there. Plus, there's another helping of reminiscences from past years and other parts of Greece and Europe in general; like the time when Yvonne was Miss August on a calendar that graced the walls of innumerable offices all across Germany after meeting a German businessman on a beach in Corfu. Then there's Manolis, the "Six Million Drachma Man," who climbs olive trees even though he only has one and a half legs! The "Lonely Goatherd" comes by, as does Kostas, the local who shows them which weeds are great to eat. Yvonne helps Greco-Turkish relations during an evening out on Samos and John reluctantly become the elephant man for a while. < Less
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John and his half-Greek wife Yvonne-Maria moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005, the account of which was told in his first... More > book, FETA COMPLI! MOUSSAKA takes up where FETA COMPLI! leaves off, with Yvonne and John settling into life on Rhodes and coming into contact with some great characters who live around them out there. Plus, there's another helping of reminiscences from past years and other parts of Greece and Europe in general; like the time when Yvonne was Miss August on a calendar that graced the walls of innumerable offices all across Germany after meeting a German businessman on a beach in Corfu. Then there's Manolis, the "Six Million Drachma Man," who climbs olive trees even though he only has one and a half legs! The "Lonely Goatherd" comes by, as does Kostas, the local who shows them which weeds are great to eat. Yvonne helps Greco-Turkish relations during an evening out on Samos and John reluctantly become the elephant man for a while. < Less
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