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When our hero, Victor, needs a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his wife after deciding to pen a book about up-sticking to Greece, he dusts off his original name of V. D. Bucket, the name he was stuck with after being abandoned in a bucket as a baby. As Victor adapts to his adopted homeland, he battles an obsession with the exacting hygiene standards he demanded during his illustrious career as a public health inspector, against the rather less exacting standards of rural Greece. His attempts to master the complexities of the language lead to a number of embarrassing misunderstandings. Crossing paths with the local undertaker, Spiros, was a stroke of good luck for Victor and Marigold, since Spiros just happened to have a house to sell in the charming Greek mountain village of Meli. Of course Spiros didn't explain the strange arrangement of an Albanian living in the stone shed at the bottom of the garden, or mention the old lady's next door filthy habit of burning plastic every morning. He also failed to mention his late uncle had plunged to his death from the roof terrace, but did a wonderful job of selling them on the spectacular views.

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Needing a pseudonym to avoid embarrassing his wife after deciding to pen a book about moving from Manchester to Greece, the author dusted off his original name of V. D. Bucket, the name he was stuck with after being abandoned in a bucket as a baby. He is the author of the Bucket to Greece series. David Vickery is a network BBC TV announcer in the UK, with a track record in program narrations for Discovery, AETN, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and other channels. He trained as an actor at the prestigious Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama but has latterly discovered a love for golf croquet. It's a very competitive sport and brings out the er . . . best in him! David daily ponders whether to again adopt a cat.

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