Customer Reviews

Greece, A Love Story: Women Write about the Greek Experience (Seal Women's Travel)

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T his book was a birthday gift for a female friend soon traveling to Greece. She absolutely loves the book and is savoring every chapter. She says she doen't want to finish the book it is that good.

I can't express how wonderful this book was. I may not be Greek by birth, but I am in my heart. While I go to Greece yearly, I long to be there year-round. This book has helped me connect to my favorite place when I have to be in the States. It is great to read some of the other women's experiences and see how they parallel my own. I highly recommend this book to any woman who loves Greece.

After reading the reviews, I bought this book as preparation for my upcoming trip to Greece. Disappointed by the superficial caracter of the histories:some weathy women's trip and their narrow views on Greek culture;over Greek machisme; some superficial experience of Greek food, etc. I did not learn much from their stories and even, it's waste of time. Now I learn that the reviews of others would not correspond always to that of everyone.

I enjoyed the stories in this book. I only wish my copy had arrived before we left for Greece! I ordered it from Amazon marketplace 2 weeks before the trip, but apparently that is not enough time. The stories are from very diverse perspectives, about different places in Greece, though most of them are from the 1970s and 80s so things have changed a lot.