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Patras Town – Exploring in My Down Time
ByStephanie Banks 29 June 201718 August 2024

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…

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Greek Travels of a Different Kind – Volunteering With a Refugee Charity in Patras – Part 1
ByStephanie Banks 27 June 201727 June 2025

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…

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