After 20 years of teaching English and Drama in London, Ian Veazey left England for the island of Lesvos, where he taught English and lived for the next 23 years.
This is where he met his wonderful wife, with whom he has two equally wonderful daughters.
Now he lives in a Greek village on the mainland a stone’s throw from the mountains that separate Greece from Bulgaria. The garden is abundant in olive and fruit trees, which is shared with Tara his extremely silly dog and Roushka, the family cat, who just happens to be a princess and ruler over everything she sees.
The summer started with ‘Brown Sugar’ and it ended with The Who at The Oval cricket ground, where they turned live rock music into a mesmerizing, pulsating miracle. And bound up in this heady atmosphere of 1971 was the pure, unadulterated love of football and all its absurdities, where sex, snak...