Missing Family when living in Corfu

Hi

It isn't just family you miss, it is friends too. And there will be other things.  Really you just have to realise that this will happen before you go and work out how you are ging to live with it. It is easier said than done at times.  I think you have to do it on a day to day basis.  I miss my brother and his family so much but we didn't see each other every week let alone every day. They came over in summer and I was really upset when he said see you next year when they left, but that was because I was thinking about it being so far away.  If I don't think about seeing them it isn't so bad because I can phone and email whenever I like just as we did in the UK when there was also the option to pop over if I wanted to but I didn't choose to.  So if I look at it like that it is just the same.

I'm not making much sense am I ?  What I am trying to say is don't look long term and measure the absence.  It will be horrible and you will wish life away. Enjoy what you have chosen to do and be prepared to make a lot of phone calls! 

Julia