΄What happened next? What happened to the boys? Once upon a lifetime, twenty-five years ago or more, I wrote a book called A Foreign Wife"". In it I recorded my experiences during my first five years in the Peloponnesian village to which I had unexpectedly migrated in 1980.΄ Life in the Peloponnese continues to delight and challenge Gillian Bouras: "Seeing and Believing" resumes the narrative as her sons create their own families and time delivers a fresh crop of joys and heartaches, to which she tries to adjust. Acutely responsive to what she calls ΄the conspiracy of beauty in Greece,΄ she celebrates the natural world in prose that indicates a lifelong engagement with words. Global events send her to historians for enlightenment, while tragedy closer to home -fire, unexpected death-prompts reflection on the solace of contrasting creeds. In between she observes the human comedy with dry humour.