Bucket to Greece
Volume 1
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Bucket to Greece
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Seslendiren:
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David Vickery
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Yazan:
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V.D. Bucket
When our hero, Victor, needs a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his wife after deciding to pen a book about up-sticking to Greece, he dusts off his original name of V.D. Bucket, the name he was stuck with after being abandoned in a bucket as a baby. As Victor adapts to his adopted homeland, he battles an obsession with the exacting hygiene standards he demanded during his illustrious career as a public health inspector against the rather less exacting standards of rural Greece. His attempts to master the complexities of the language lead to a number of embarrassing misunderstandings.
Crossing paths with the local undertaker, Spiros, was a stroke of good luck for Victor and Marigold, since Spiros just happened to have a house to sell in the charming Greek mountain village of Meli. Of course, Spiros didn't explain the strange arrangement of an Albanian living in the stone shed at the bottom of the garden, or mention the old lady next door's filthy habit of burning plastic every morning. He also failed to mention his late uncle had plunged to his death from the roof terrace, but did a wonderful job of selling them on the spectacular views.
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Two things really grated with me with this couple: Firstly, buying two cats intentionally to take to Greece(!) which is incredibly short-sighted on so many levels. Secondly, moving to another country without learning the language BEFORE you move. They were also pretty harsh on the local tradesmen who were probably doing their best. This couple were fortunate that the local people were so accommodating and spoke English so that they could communicate and start to learn Greek. The tin hat for me was this couple being incredibly judgmental over some other Brits who had moved over there, not learned the language and been scathing about the locals! Like you're a better kind of interloper if you throw money/dinner at the locals and pick up a few lines of their language?
I was really hoping for some escapism to unwind to but this book had the absolute opposite effect I'm afraid!
Overall pretty judgemental
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Laugh out loud funny
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Beautifully narrated by David Vickery -
bringing Victor , Marigold and Co to life.
Now for Volume 2.
The fabulous Bucket to Greece series
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Very amusing
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Interesting account of their move to Greece but...
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