Updates from a Couple of Stragglers!
August 2, 2009 by proverbs6to10
Well it is good to post some further updates – keep them coming. Bernardka has surfaced (if I had looked later on Facebook I would have seen she has been on holiday), and we have a lovely update from Hans and Margaret …..
Hi Tom,
Margaret and I just read your blog. Nice to be updated on what everybody is doing! Since the Via Egnatia walking experience we spent quite some time working around the house and in the garden. For a few days we visited Athens where we attended a presentation of a special issue of a French journal (Migrance) which is devoted to migration from and to Greece. It has an article by me. We used the opportunity to see some friends, visit a few musea and attend a concert. We also visited the Dutch Institute in Athens and talked there about the Via-Egnatia Project. Maybe they can help us in some – certainly limited – way.
The stunning view from Hans and Margarets house in the Pelion
We have a beautiful house here in Milies (Greece) with a very nice view and get quite some visitors from spring till autumn. Next week we will have 8 people here: one of our two daughters with her friend and our three grand-daughters, plus two other people. So that is what keeps us busy for the moment … and the near future as well: visitors. With some friends we hope to revisit Albania in September. By the way if some of you will ever visit the peninsula where we live (Pilion or Pelion), don’t hesitate to visit us.
As some of you will know, at the Bitola conference of the VE Foundation a few ‘working groups’ were established. One deals with migration in the VE region. As coordinator of the group I have been spending also some time contacting people, making and discussing plans for our activities. But – I must confess – we are still in the beginning of our work … there is still a lot to do.
Have a nice month, as the Greeks say at the first day of a new month,
Hans
Bernardka confirms that she no longer has that job in the museum in Macedonia. The work was too much for her. She updates us as follows:
Bernardka relaxes on Lošinj - best foot forward?
“Since I came home from Ireland I did nothing very special. had some interviews for my diploma, I did a day trip to Krnsko lake (in the Alps), sometimes I enjoyed sweet doing nothing… I was very honoured, because my cousin named her newborn baby after me… so we have little Bernardka now:) (Tom Edit – this is very concerning; two Bernardkas! Sounds like there is trouble ahead)
And now…I just came home from Lošinj, Croatian island (ps. I love Croatia:), where I spent a great weekend with my family and boyfriend. Now I am doing ordinary stuff like talking to my grandmothers for hours and playing with my cousins and reading, cycling…
And I am looking forward to see Mateja and Ines again and Mirjam…”
Bernardka
I think I may have mentioned I was going to the coast yesterday. The weather forecast was wrong and the cloud did not clear as promised. Nevertheless we had a great day on Dorset’s Jurassic coast at the beautiful Lulworth Cove (if you visit England it is a must), and I did swim in the sea with my daughter; we were the only ones to brave it!
A cold swim!
Lulworth Cove looking West
Updates from a Couple of Stragglers!
August 2, 2009 by proverbs6to10
Well it is good to post some further updates – keep them coming. Bernardka has surfaced (if I had looked later on Facebook I would have seen she has been on holiday), and we have a lovely update from Hans and Margaret …..
Hi Tom,
Margaret and I just read your blog. Nice to be updated on what everybody is doing! Since the Via Egnatia walking experience we spent quite some time working around the house and in the garden. For a few days we visited Athens where we attended a presentation of a special issue of a French journal (Migrance) which is devoted to migration from and to Greece. It has an article by me. We used the opportunity to see some friends, visit a few musea and attend a concert. We also visited the Dutch Institute in Athens and talked there about the Via-Egnatia Project. Maybe they can help us in some – certainly limited – way.
The stunning view from Hans and Margarets house in the Pelion
We have a beautiful house here in Milies (Greece) with a very nice view and get quite some visitors from spring till autumn. Next week we will have 8 people here: one of our two daughters with her friend and our three grand-daughters, plus two other people. So that is what keeps us busy for the moment … and the near future as well: visitors. With some friends we hope to revisit Albania in September. By the way if some of you will ever visit the peninsula where we live (Pilion or Pelion), don’t hesitate to visit us.
As some of you will know, at the Bitola conference of the VE Foundation a few ‘working groups’ were established. One deals with migration in the VE region. As coordinator of the group I have been spending also some time contacting people, making and discussing plans for our activities. But – I must confess – we are still in the beginning of our work … there is still a lot to do.
Have a nice month, as the Greeks say at the first day of a new month,
Hans
Bernardka confirms that she no longer has that job in the museum in Macedonia. The work was too much for her. She updates us as follows:
Bernardka relaxes on Lošinj - best foot forward?
“Since I came home from Ireland I did nothing very special. had some interviews for my diploma, I did a day trip to Krnsko lake (in the Alps), sometimes I enjoyed sweet doing nothing… I was very honoured, because my cousin named her newborn baby after me… so we have little Bernardka now:) (Tom Edit – this is very concerning; two Bernardkas! Sounds like there is trouble ahead)
And now…I just came home from Lošinj, Croatian island (ps. I love Croatia:), where I spent a great weekend with my family and boyfriend. Now I am doing ordinary stuff like talking to my grandmothers for hours and playing with my cousins and reading, cycling…
And I am looking forward to see Mateja and Ines again and Mirjam…”
Bernardka
I think I may have mentioned I was going to the coast yesterday. The weather forecast was wrong and the cloud did not clear as promised. Nevertheless we had a great day on Dorset’s Jurassic coast at the beautiful Lulworth Cove (if you visit England it is a must), and I did swim in the sea with my daughter; we were the only ones to brave it!
A cold swim!
Lulworth Cove looking West
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