It was 2003 -- with the promise of a bright new millennium- and I felt my life was going nowhere. I was 22 and although I was working in my home country, Poland was not yet in the European Union with the opportunities that this afforded. I wanted, no, I needed to escape! My job was boring, but not as mind-numbingly boring as my love life. I had a boyfriend that seemed to only care about his own gratification and put no effort into ensuring that sex with me was satisfactory for anyone but himself. I got more satisfaction sitting on the washing machine on the spin cycle. Hey, I know I am not alone amongst women when I say that vaginal penetration is not enough for me -- there has to be some kind of clitoral stimulation for me to cum. The main result of this was that most of the time I faked my orgasms with him then used my own fingers later to relieve the sexual tension I felt.
One of my boyfriends mates, a guy called Adam, spoke to us about his previous summer when he went to Greece to work as a plumber. He said it was great fun....a real adventure....and that, if we wanted, he could find work for both of us and we could escape the humdrum existence of living in Poland. So with no prospects of happiness on my horizon, I agreed to go with them both mainly because I wanted some excitement in my life and I couldn't see it happening where I was.
So there we were -- sharing a small room with a bed and a shower rented to us by an old couple, him working as a plumber around the village with his friend, Adam, and me working shifts as a waitress in a harbour-front restaurant. The working hours varied with the amount of trade the restaurant got -- obviously on the weekends we were busier while during the week, I often had time off in the afternoon after the lunch rush and before the evening customers started arriving.
Next door to the restaurant was a tourist bar catering for the passing trade during the holiday season. It was run by a married couple -- not Greek but French or Belgium -- I was never really sure. The husband was around 50 years old, tall, long-haired and fairly handsome in a powerful, rugged way. He owned a few establishments scattered around the village and his wife basically ran the tourist bar for him, leaving him free to operate his other bars and venues. His name was Renaud, a name I was to come to love and fear in equal amounts as the years passed.