Who was there? Bryan Hollamby
Almost directly after graduating from Birmingham, where I did the BA Combined Honours in French and Modern Greek, in September 1986 I went to Greece, as I had a job lined up there teaching English. Although the original plan was to be working in Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, I ended up being posted to a school in a half-horse town called Kilkis some thirty miles to the north, a short drive from the border with the then Yugoslavia (now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). I worked at the school for seven years and was offered headmastership in 1992, but by then I knew that my future lay elsewhere: in private tuition. In 1993 I left the school and set up business as a private English tutor, which is what I do to this very day. I have more work than I can comfortably deal with, which is good but tiring.
I married a local woman in 1990, but that proved to be an unhappy relationship and I eventually separated from my wife in 2002. Due to Greek law, the final divorce is still pending after all this time, but I am now living happily with my partner Christina, who is a teacher of French and has her own language school.
After starting virtually from scratch again financially after the separation and moving from rented flat to rented flat, I have just purchased a place of my own, which is still being built, and should be moving into that at the beginning of 2008 - yes, this time (January) next year! I enjoy travelling around Greece and to neighbouring Macedonia and its capital, Skopje, and indulging in my hobby of flying big jets in Flight Simulator on the computer... I also spend time maintaining my business website - http://www.bryanhollamby.co.uk - where I have various pages to do with both my business and my personal interests - including a page with pictures of Skopje and one showcasing some videos of me flying those jets!! Feel free to have a gander...
Life in Greece can be a bit trying sometimes (to put it mildly), but the summers are great and the lifestyle is much more laid-back than in the UK, so I suppose that on the whole I am fairly happy here. I try to visit the UK once a year or so, but often my visits are less frequent than that.
It was great to be able to attend the reunion back in July 2006 and exchange news with old friends. Many thanks to Hazel for making it all possible...!!
Almost directly after graduating from Birmingham, where I did the BA Combined Honours in French and Modern Greek, in September 1986 I went to Greece, as I had a job lined up there teaching English. Although the original plan was to be working in Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, I ended up being posted to a school in a half-horse town called Kilkis some thirty miles to the north, a short drive from the border with the then Yugoslavia (now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). I worked at the school for seven years and was offered headmastership in 1992, but by then I knew that my future lay elsewhere: in private tuition. In 1993 I left the school and set up business as a private English tutor, which is what I do to this very day. I have more work than I can comfortably deal with, which is good but tiring.I married a local woman in 1990, but that proved to be an unhappy relationship and I eventually separated from my wife in 2002. Due to Greek law, the final divorce is still pending after all this time, but I am now living happily with my partner Christina, who is a teacher of French and has her own language school.
After starting virtually from scratch again financially after the separation and moving from rented flat to rented flat, I have just purchased a place of my own, which is still being built, and should be moving into that at the beginning of 2008 - yes, this time (January) next year! I enjoy travelling around Greece and to neighbouring Macedonia and its capital, Skopje, and indulging in my hobby of flying big jets in Flight Simulator on the computer... I also spend time maintaining my business website - http://www.bryanhollamby.co.uk - where I have various pages to do with both my business and my personal interests - including a page with pictures of Skopje and one showcasing some videos of me flying those jets!! Feel free to have a gander...
Life in Greece can be a bit trying sometimes (to put it mildly), but the summers are great and the lifestyle is much more laid-back than in the UK, so I suppose that on the whole I am fairly happy here. I try to visit the UK once a year or so, but often my visits are less frequent than that.
It was great to be able to attend the reunion back in July 2006 and exchange news with old friends. Many thanks to Hazel for making it all possible...!!
posted by Hazel Hall at 3:14 pm
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