Feta Compli! is the first in the "Ramblings From Rhodes" series of books. It loosely tells the story of how a young idealistic English boy married a girl with a Greek mother, fell in love with his mother-in-law's country and eventually moved from the UK to live on Rhodes in 2005.

 

It begins with the account of how John and his wife bought an old van, stuffed it full of all their remaining worldly goods and drove it across Europe to their new home in Rhodes. Feta Compli! is crammed with anecdotes, most of them very funny, covering visits made to Greece over several decades. It also relates what happened during the first few months of their residency on Rhodes and the various disasters that befell them once they'd arrived and tried to settle in.

 

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Feta Compli trivia...

Chapter 22 tells of John's good friend Alain's miscalculated dive from a small Greek fisherman's boat near a beach in Kefalonia.

 

Also featured in the chapters about Kefalonia is Andreas Benetatos, who became quite attached to John, his wife and Alain's family and, it has to be said, they to him while they stayed in Argostoli in 1987. In the book John mentions that he still has a photo taken after Alain had received a bit of "first aid" for his bloodied scalp - well here it is folks!

 

In the pic (right) you can see John's wife Yvonne-Maria approaching (in the green bikini) behind Andreas, who's sitting with Alain and offering fairly insincere sympathy. After all, it was very funny (once they'd stopped the bleeding!).

 

The beach in the background is Makris Yialos, the one back to which the Greek boatman had ferried John and Alain after their exhausting snorkelling session, where even as they sat there and John took the photo a fish was swimming round with a new toupé!