My Book about Greece - "KALO TAXIDI! Notes from Greece and the Greek Islands"
I have been visiting Greece regularly for thirty years, and over the years have made notes about my trips. I published my book "KALO TAXIDI! Notes from Greece and the Greek Islands" in July 2011.
Extracts about Amorgos
You can read extracts from my book here. The current selection is about Amorgos, an island I first visited in 1985.
Amorgos 1985 - Trying to leave On April 1
Amorgos 1991 - The Church Mural Painter on Amorgos
Cat Food at To Mouragi in 1985
Glow Worms - The Flashing Nocturnal Visitor
Book Contents
These are the headings in the book
Part One - Preparing to go
- Greek Islands
- Packing
Part Two - In Greece
- Arrival in Greece
- My first trip to Greece in October 1981 (Athens, Mykonos, Paros, Santorini)
- Accommodation
- Amorgos 1985- Trying to leave on April 1
- Amorgos 1996
- Amorgos 1991 - The Church Mural Painter on Amorgos
- Anaphi 1996
- Andros Chora - General Impressions
- Andros - Chips Galore
- Andros - Taverna with no food
- Andros Café Cats
- Antiparos 1996
- Ariadne in the 1990s
- Astypalia 1995
- Belgian Greek
- Buses
- Carnival
- Cat Food at To Mouragi in 1984 (Amorgos)
- Cephalonia - 1990
- Cheese and the travelling dog bowl (Amorgos)
- Greek Cats
- Chios (late 1990s)
- Coffee grinding grocery (in Andros Chora)
- Coffee - trying to make coffee in an old-fashioned hotel
- Conch shell noise
- Corfu
- Crete
- Delos 1981
- Dolphins - leaving Fourni (Flying Dolphins)
- Donoussa - Spring 1993
- Dripping in the Night
- Easter
- Electricity
- Electricity - fused
- Ferries and other Sea travel
- Food - eating in (General tips, Some simple breakfasts, Some simple lunches, Some main meal ideas
- Food - eating out
- Folegandros 1989, 1991 and 1996
- Fourni 1998
- Glow Worms - The Flashing Nocturnal Visitor
- Good morning squid
- Greek language
- If I was you I wouldn't
- Ios 1996 - First Visit
- Ios 1996 - Second Visit
- Iraklia - 1991
- Kalamos 1989
- Kalymnos - 1995
- Kalymnos - Doggy Paddle
- Kastelorizo - shoeless - 1995
- Kea - Leaving Kea Chora Without A Bus
- Kimolos 1996
- Kithnos - ants
- Koufonissi just before Easter, and on old Skopelitis
- Lambs and goats
- Lefkes 1989
- Leros
- Lipsi
- Macadamia nuts
- Maps
- Meganisi 1989
- Milos Cheese Shop - 1986
- Milos 1986
- Milos - English Lessons
- Mykonos 1981
- Mykonos - A Noisy Room In Greece - 1996
- Mykonos 1996
- Mykonos - FORBIDDEN. VERBOTEN - 1996
- Naxos 1985
- Naxos - Apeiranthos - Tourism arrives
- Naxos - Apollonas in the mid 1990s
- Naxos - buying oregano in Chalki
- News - keeping in touch
- Paros 1981
- Patmos - 1985
- Paxos - early 1980s
- Pigs Galore
- Planes - internal
- Plumbing
- Rhodes (1985)
- Samos (1998)
- Santorini 1981
- Schinoussa
- Schinoussa - The arrival of the troops
- Serifos 1986
- Serifos - Trying to Return To Serifos
- Sikinos 1989
- Sikinos - Locked Out On Sikinos (1998)
- Siphnos 1986 and 1981
- Symi (1995)
- Syros
- Thimena (1998)
- Thirasia - Now I have been to all the Cyclades (1998)
- Tilos (1995)
- Time
- Tinos - Icons and Coconut Monkeys in Tinos
- Weather
- Yachts
- Zakynthos 1989
Part Three - Heading Home
- Souvenirs
- Athens Hotels - First trip to Greece
- Athens Hotels - Nafsika (1980s)
- Athens Hotels - Where do I stay now?
- Athens Hotels - Hotel Kouros
- Athens Hotels - Student Inn
- Missed Flight Home - in the mid 1990s
- Arrival in Piraeus - autumn 2009
Susan Watkin
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