GREECE - (Continued)

The Old House in Kifissia

Saturday, 2nd March 2019.

In my post, GREECE (continued), dated the 18th October 2018, I had written:

"It was a happy and very satisfying period in our lives.  My husband. Aleco, and I were very pleased with our boys progress, we were very fond of their girlfriends and we enjoyed working at our office, which was doing rather well, acquiring considerable profits."

It was also a very busy period in our lives because besides achieving all mentioned above, we also kept an eye on my parents who lived in a flat quite near our house.  My father was strong and active in his nineties, and my mother was still attractive in her seventies and a fabulous hostess.

Our son Spiros was studying chemistry at the Technical University in Munich, where he had met Yianna Christou, a lovely Greek girl, whose parents lived in Thessaloniki.   Her mother, Caterina, was a teacher at a local High school, and her father was a well-known university professor, very popular with his students.

Spiros and Yianna were very much in love and although very young they wanted to get married so they were officially engaged, much to our delight.  Then they returned to Munich where they shared a flat.

The Technical University Munich

Unfortunately, my beloved father died on the 18th of January 1981.

London Bridge

The Eifel Tower and the Sein River Paris

 Yiannis, after getting a bachelor's degree, in Athens, was then in London, visiting the London School of Economics, after being accepted to study for a Masters degree the following academic year.   His girlfriend, Olga Dretakis, a charming Greek girl, was studying biology in Paris.

Monemvassia

Technical University Berlin

On the 1st May 1981, Spiros and Yianna got married at the beautiful, medieval castle town of Monemvassia, near Sparti, where Yianna has a house.  It was a beautiful, traditional wedding and Caterina and I shed tears of happiness.  Then they flew to Germany, where they both continued their studies at the Technical University of Berlin.

Meanwhile, we met Olga's parents, Aliki who was a journalist and Manolis who was a famous orthopedist, and we liked them both very much indeed.

The London School of Economics

Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris

In September, Yiannis left for London, to study for a Master's degree at the London School of Economics and Olga went to resume her studies at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris.





Much to our delight,  Yianna was pregnant, so we would soon become grandparents!

Sibling Love by Faye Whitteker