A beautiful view and a persuasive local prompted the Mole family’s impulsive purchase of “a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung!” John Mole tells of the back-breaking yet joyous labors of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters. An Englishman and a Greek village bond over bottles of ouzo, whisky and wine, finding each other sometimes bizarre, often baffling yet always entertaining.