In It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina—and Real Greeks, the Mole family embarks on a search for a piece of Greek paradise. Dreaming of a whitewashed house with a blue door and shutters on an unspoiled island in a picturesque village, the Mole's are in for a surprise. With a beautiful view and a persuasive local prompt, the family impulsively purchases 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!