It has taken a long time for me to pick up from where I left off writing up about this trip. There are several reasons for that. I had travelled to Athens and then on to Patras with my daughter as we had just been accepted as volunteers – myself with FoodKind and my daughter…
The presence of the smugglers was even more apparent in the little factory, an old abandoned carpet manufacturing plant that seems to have been frozen in time. Lengths of carpet still hung suspended from the looms. It had the advantage of a rigged-up power supply ideal for charging phones, and it also had some semblance…
In the spring of 2017, I had returned from a memorable 3-week holiday in the Peloponnese. This had been no ordinary trip. I’d been deeply unhappy in my job for a while, and I knew something had to change. This trip had been an opportunity to assess my options, which at the time felt very…