Still Life in Crete
- by Anthony Cox (paperback, 199 pages, February 2001)
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Still Life in Crete takes its readers into the eastern Mediterranean for an experience of Greece's
biggest and most idiosyncratic island. Geographically, Crete is the last place in Europe. It has kept its
essentially Cretan character and is an infinitely more interesting place than those much written about French
and Italian ports-of-call, Provence and Tuscany.
The book tells how the author and his wife face up to the shock of his unduly early
retirement and decide to seek a new life abroad. Accompanied by their two pug dogs, the adventurous couple
explore Greece and fall in love with the country. Eventually they discover an unspoilt corner of western Crete
to call their own.
While Still Life in Crete steps off the well-beaten track of conventional travel books, the
author writes about those subjects - food and drink, for example - that will help visitors enjoy their stay.
Crete has a unique cuisine, definitely not haute but good, plain and substantial, which is seen as one of the
world's healthiest diets - and while Cretan wine hasn't travelled, it's worth travelling for.
Crete is an affordable, unpretentious and honest place, naturally spectacular and beautiful,
quiet and uncrowded - and rich in bizarre and humorous experiences. All these qualities are described in the
book and can easily be found along the island's back-roads and in its villages by any visitor adventurous enough
to seek them out.
Reviews from Amazon.com:
An entertaining achievement
"Still Life in Crete - I enjoyed every page of it. It's an achievement to write so
entertainingly." A. J. McIntyre, Editor, "The Daily Drone"
Very Readable!
An amusing and informative account of ex-journalist and teacher Anthony Cox's experiences
when he, his wife and two dogs took the big leap to sell up in England and settle in a village in Western
Crete...Anthony Cox's easy style of relating events makes this book very readable, whilst sharing useful
knowledge for the uninitiated. (Extract from review in "Greek-o-File" [www.greekofile.co.uk] issue
2001/2) ...more
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