Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Part memoir, part love story, part wildly scenic travel piece, The Greek for Love is every bit as sumptuous as its setting
The Greek for Love
What you need to know before your trail
James Chattto and his wife venture to the island of Corfu looking forward to afternoons on the patio drinking wine and admiring the blue Greek sea, but the villa they ended up in was something rather different and not at all what you would expect to see in a holiday brochure.
However when they managed to overlook the wife fence and the dilapidate house they were staying in, they came to se the island for what it really was and discovered a whole lot more.
Travel Guide
Corfu – This is the return to a simple way of life, the way in which a holiday can turn in to something more when your least expect it. Every detail is evoked with style from the swimming on the beach to the fresh olives and the learning to blend with the locals at the taverna. The bus journeys are hairy:
Each hairpin bend necessitates a three-point turn….sometimes the trees thinned or vanished altogether and then we were rewarded with an astonishing view – the whole northern coast of the island, dark green hills and scattered villages”
There are cicadas in the trees, the shade of the olive trees, the warm sun and the sense of adventure all around
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