Crete

pen4hire on December 10th, 2009

My favorite place is Greece and now I’m revealing three places that are my travel secrets. (You can now get a set of FREE e-books with my travel secrets and hundreds more from leading travel writers. Use  A Traveler’s Library link for the Travel Secrets books.)

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pen4hire on October 14th, 2009

Place: Crete, Greece Book: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis (1946) Movie: Zorba the Greek with Alan Bates and Anthony Quinn(1964) and subsequent musical, Zorba Several years ago, during our travels in Greece, Ken and I had a marvelous 10 days of driving back and forth across the mountains of Crete and exploring its rough-edged [...]

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pen4hire on July 12th, 2009

Do summer days make you wish you were on an island? See some books about about Greek Islands, and specifically about Crete. And over at Spot Cool Stuff, I wrote about my idyll on the island of Siphnos. Or journey to the Caribbean with this British travel writer. Have a nice trip to the islands!

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pen4hire on February 18th, 2009

Books: The Villa Ariadne, by Dilys Powell  and The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis Destination: Crete, Greece The Island of Crete, the largest of the hundreds of islands that make up most of the watery nation of Greece, contains as much history, variety of scenery and adventures as many small countries.  Two eras attracted our [...]

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