Your Latest Adventure in Greece

Mummy here, I just got this lovely email from your Daddy telling me about all the marvellous things you have been up to during your 5 days in Greece visiting your Super-Papou... I am SOOO proud of you, it made me smile the biggest smile, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow!

So, what has Penny been up to? (She's been delightful since her first 24 hours of misery...)

In no particular order:

1) Penny learned to click her tongue.

2) Penny impressed everyone (but especially Elias) with acrobatics at Yaya Erika's memorial gathering.

3) Penny went for a walk by the sea, despite the wind and rain. Many other walks, too.

4) Penny saw turkeys, chickens, pheasants, peacocks, deer, rabbits and goats (which she called moose).

5) Penny learned to blow out candles.

6) Penny watched Twinkle Twinkle and various other nursery rhymes on endless loop on YouTube (she got frightened at the end of hickory dickory dock when the elephant ran up the clock!).

7) Penny learned how to ask Daddy for a shoulder ride, thus making the pushchair entirely redundant (in fact, unusually, she seemed to actively dislike the pushchair).

8) Penny's Yaya did her full bathtime routine without a single complaint.

9) Penny had a meal comprising six grapes, a giant plateful of mushrooms, and a bowl of ice cream.

10) Penny decided she loves bran flakes.

11) Penny met several dogs and was very excited by them, although she dared not go too close...

12) Penny navigated her way through hundreds of people at a Christmas bazaar, walking mostly unaided in the forests of legs, fascinated by the music and baubles and face painters and Wii Just Dance.

13) Penny played horses with her Super Papou.

14) Penny met about twenty more people who could sing Platho Koulourakia like her Yaya, which served as a passport to her affections.

15) Penny enjoyed having Zog read to her by her auntie. Again and again. Daddy has it pretty much memorised now.

16) Penny discovered how to play I Hear Ewe on the iPod in Chinese, and she completed the first four levels of Tumbledrop without any help (including opening up the app).

17) Penny slept through a prayer at the synagogue.

18) Penny made friends with the shop assistants in a posh clothes store, making them laugh because every time she made a kiss sound she added "aaah".

19) Penny Skyped with her Mummy and her eyes lit up when I explained that we would be seeing her again soon.

20) Penny is currently leaning against me in bed playing Angry Birds when she should be asleep (it's 11:30pm Greek time!) - she is her father's daughter...