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I started travel writing around 4 years ago. I initially wanted a means to chronicle my various trips abroad for myself, as a way to recall that great meal, that wonderful sight or the friendly people I met along the way. I then found
+ more bio information"What's the most beautiful place you've ever travelled to?", a question I'm sure that we have all been posed over the years. Some of us may need to ponder awhile before reaching our answer, some may offer a selection of two or three destinations as contenders for the title, whilst others, myself included, have no hesitation w... More..
It's late May on Crete's north coast and the last remaining spring flowers are looking decidedly brown and withered as the temperature climbs to the mid thirties centigrade. There's no breeze to speak of and with my local friend Andreas telling me that today "will be scorching", I decide to head for the mountains in search of... More..
This was my second trip to Rhodes and today, I decide to take a rented car to see one of the lesser known sights on this sun-drenched island that forms the major link in the Dodecanese chain. I am based at Pefkos, a medium sized resort on the island's east coast and so with the air-conditioning at full blast, I crunch down th... More..
It's an stiflingly hot and still Kefalonian morning as I steer the rented 4 x 4 around Argostoli's Koutavos Lagoon and take the right turning that will lead me across the mountains to the small east coast port of Sami where I will hitch a ferry ride across to Ithaca. The road twists and turns like a mortally wounded serpent b... More..
Kefalonia - a small island in the Ionian chain that suffered a modern-day natural disaster second only to the cataclysmic explosion that destroyed Santorini and dealt the ultimate death knell to the Minoan people of Crete all those millennia ago.Kefalonia - an island I'd always wanted to visit; the opportunity came along a co... More..
Graham Brown
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