Somewhere Else

by Alex Morton

We headed to the Greek island of Ikaria, a magical place where people live years longer than normal. An abandoned family farm overlooking the Aegean needed to be brought back to life. Who could resist? Ikaria is a Blue Zone, where people live decades longer than normal. It was home to my wife’s family for generations until the wars of the Twentieth Century drove them to America. But the land, and a few crumbling stone houses stayed in the family, and the plum of it all, sitting on the side of a mountain overlooking the Aegean, was where we would begin our new life. We would restore the house, get the land working again, harvest olives, swim in the Aegean and add years to our own lives … if we didn’t kill ourselves in the process.

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Published September 15, 2020

About the author

Alex Morton divides his time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Ikaria, Greece. He is the author of Somewhere Else, A little Larceny, Legal Enough, Sex Drugs and Unix, The Genius Card and We Are Not Yours.

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very inspiring...makes me want to move to Greece and evade the stressful life we lead.