Ok I will try to answer all the comments made so far by most of you:
First let me tell you that when I was living in Greece, in 1970, I met my ex English wife and we lived together for 10 years so I know how difficult is to match and accommodate the 2 different cultures. From 1984 till 6 years ago I had an English girlfriend, never married her and we lived most of the time together, we are still good friends.
When I made up my mind to look seriously for an FSU woman, a year ago, I made a plan and try to execute it like you will do with a business plan. I do not limit my meetings to one woman only and I only talk to those ones who speak good English. As you know from my travel report on the 23 June I went to Kiev and met another woman for 5 days but I was not impressed with her apart from having a good shag, starting from the first night. Of course she is meeting other men too ( I knew about that) and she told me that she does not hesitate to have sex with them if she likes them. So you know the answer to that! Dosfidania.
Olga contacted me first and we had a very long communication (8 months) before we met in Kos, last June. Yes I am lucky that Olga is working for a department that pays her good money and she can afford to pay for her tickets and holidays. That is what happened with our trip in Kos but I paid for everything else.
With that in mind if we decide in the future to get married then I will know that she only wants me for the person that I am and not my passport or the money I don’t have!
She is fully aware of my financial position, a poor pensioner, and I keep secret from her my small Greek bonus, a house there worth at least 200K dollars and also the land I own in a few places.
In a previous post I said: “It was a common decision during the summer to enjoy holiday breaks in Greece because she definitely needs a good rest and we are both away from our normal environment. That give us the opportunity to get to know each other better, been 24/7 together, without the every day distractions of life in Russia or UK. That will come later”
Our Original plan was to meet again in October in Kos and then I will visit her in Russia.
Meanwhile we have been talking everyday on the phone and she started complaining that she is very tired and needs a holiday soon and that she miss me a lot. She suggested we go for a holiday in Turkey, Antalya because she does not need a Visa BUT I persuaded her to go to Greece. This is part of my plan and you will understand later why and of course I did not tell her the reason for that.
Olga had to relinquish her previous passport, where she had many Visas and stamps when traveling and working abroad for the Government. Her new passport has only 1 (short 3 weeks) Shegen visa to Greece and I want her to build up the numbers. In October we plan that she will visit the Greek consulate and ask for a Visa to travel independent to Kos, because it would cost her much cheaper to buy a flight there, around 300 Euro, and in Kos I have my own Free accommodation. This time, visiting Corfu, it was impossible to do it because of the Greek Consulate work load and also they were moving building so she booked a package holiday and I am joining her in Corfu on the same day of her arrival.
Please do not forget that this is the second meeting and early days. Of course part of my plan is to visit her, meet friends and family and see her during her daily working life.
Later of course I hope that she will come and visit me for long period in UK, so she can see and taste life here etc.
As you know I live in England and I have a British and Greek Passports therefore in the future, when I find the right woman, I am planning to avoid all the difficulties of marrying her in Russia or UK and getting a fiancé visa, because No 1 is very difficult to get one and No 2 if she gets one they will give her only 2 years and then she has to renew it until she is 5 years here and THEN she can apply for a British Passport. That is no good for me and her because having a Russian or a Ukrainian passport every time we want to travel somewhere in Europe she will need to have another Shegen Visa. So I have a better solution and much easier.
If and when we make the decision to get married we will travel to Greece, where as you must realise by now she has build many Visas and easy to get another one for a month or possibly a multiple entry one for a year.
Of course we will have all the necessary papers ready and there we will get married. Then we will apply for a Greek Passport under her New Greek Name and that will take a maximum of one month. Once she has the Greek Passport then she can come and join me in the UK, register and get her National Insurance Number, with the Doctors etc. She can also visit any other country in the EU without a Visa and also Ukraine.
One thing I have not investigated yet is if the Russian Government allows her to have Dual Nationality. If they don’t then I am sure we can get a 5 year multiple entry Visa for her to visit family and friends.
Leslie my friend.
I said in one of my previous posts that at my age I have only one opportunity to get it right therefore I will take my time before I ask anybody to marry me.
Talking to Olga, daily, I have come to the conclusion that she is very clever, intelligent, and several times she has surprised me talking and apologizing for the mistakes she made in Kos, which I did mentioned in my travel report.
She has been very surprised with my honesty and openness talking freely about everything personal to her and not hiding anything and now she accepted that openness and honesty between us is the best way to create a good relationship. Without forcing her and on her own accord she has told me everything about her personal life and every day she surprises me of how easy she finds to talk freely with me. Her English improving very fast and by the time she comes to visit me in the UK she will be fluent and will take her, in my view, a very short time for her ear to tune up to the English Accent. Actually her writing is very good, better than her verbal conversation.
BTW she always asks my opinion about everything important and when I reply, “do what ever you think is right”, she keeps telling me that you are the man and you make the decisions. Is that Good or bad? I don’t know and we will see how it puns out!
I can assure you that she has a very strong character too but I have no problem with that as I like strong women.
One thing I don’t know is what it will happen when time comes to make a decision to move here? That is one subject that she is refusing to talk about at the moment.
I hope I have answered to all your questions and if you see that I am doing something wrong please tell me, I will not be offended.
Yes Billy B
I do also like the physical features and feminine side of the Slavic women!
