Author : Geoffrey Baldry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781074348816
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (488 download)
Book Synopsis Lucky to Be Here by : Geoffrey Baldry
Download or read book Lucky to Be Here written by Geoffrey Baldry and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about Skiathos Island, a beautiful Greek island in the Aegean, and how it changed my life. Before I arrived there, I had been a Grammar School kid, a computer operator (when computers were massive boxes, kept in dust free, controlled environments, and had less memory than the cheapest mobile phone), a factory floor worker, a drop out (Hippie), worked in a betting shop, smoked a ton of dope and dropped quite a bit of acid, and had hitch-hiked around a lot of Europe. I was a boy/man in search of himself - but of course, I didn't know that at the time. I was just too busy living and learning by moving from experience to experience. In retrospect, fate brought me to Skiathos and Zorbathes, the place where I found the love of my life and taught me to love life and live it to the full. It taught me what was really important in life, nearly killed me, and continues to bring me happy surprises even in my 70's.The quote from Lawrence Durrel, at the beginning of this book, "Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder - the discovery of yourself." is true in many ways, except, it seems to me that it has not been hard. Skiathos, and its residents, made it easy for me.