Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor“Beyond the bars of my window the towers descended, their walls blazoned with diagonals of light and shade; and, through a wide gap, castellated villages were poised above the sea on…
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The Magus by John FowlesOn the far side of the village there was another harbour, used exclusively by the local fishermen. It was avoided by everyone from the school, and by everyone with any claim tο social ton in the…
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Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens by Sofka ZinovieffScorched Earth The week spent on Patmos restored some equilibrium. The austerity beautiful landscape of bare, rocky hills and small, stony beaches was buffeted by the summer winds. The cool, dark Aegean…
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Dinner with Persephone by Patricia StoraceThe Unwritten Greece, with its some twenty-five hundred islands, is, like the human body, made up mostly of water, and like the body of someone you love, is finite, but inexhaustible. Now that my time…
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The Corfu Trilogy by Gerald DurrellSome of my favourite readings are books written by foreign writers where the setting is in Greece. Always amazed by their perspective on Greek life and people, I have picked a few that I would…
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