[{"id":167376,"title":"Athens and Beyond: 30 Day Trips \u0026 Weekends","subtitle":null,"description":"\"In the old days, even fifteen years ago, you had to be tough to venture into most of Greece's mountains. And I don't mean just to walk or hike amongst the glorious peaks or verdant upper pastures. Surviving the nights in a bleak, unheated room required even sterner stuff. We faced the nights with the help of a small potbellied stove and immoderate quantities of rough local wine.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut these days one doesn't have to suffer. There are signs that a revolution is taking place in formerly remote mountain regions\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether in hot pursuit of a rumoured revival in the mountains, a riveting fresco hidden in an Attica church, a new find in the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese, or even just a very good island wine - Diana Farr Louis has been taking to the roads less travelled in Greece for the last forty years and coming back to Athens with ever more stories, recipes, and a deep sense of what makes the country what is today.\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of articles printed in the Athens News from 1997 to 2003, the paper's foremost travel columnist recounts her day trips around Athens and short weekends further afield, bringing together the history, mythology, cuisine and culture of each place with the ease of a local and the eye for detail of a modernday Pausanias.\u003cbr\u003eAthens and Beyond is divided by region into chapters on Athens and Attica, the Peloponnese and Central Greece, and nearby Islands. It also provides practical information, updated for this edition, such as restaurant and hotel recommendations, phone numbers and museum hours, leaving travellers to the thrill of the chase.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b170443.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-3-0","isbn13":"978-960-86395-3-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":225,"publication_year":2003,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2011-09-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":170443,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/athens-and-beyond-30-day-trips-weekends.json"},{"id":167374,"title":"It's All Greece to Me","subtitle":"Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life","description":"Greece is a country famed worldwide for its physical beauty, wealth of antiquities and other vestiges of its unsurpassed ancient civilisation. Yet despite over ten million annual visitors and an open and inviting culture, modern Greece is not an easy country for outsiders to understand or comprehend fully. Countless tourist guides extol its resorts and archaeological tomes unravel its classical past, but there are few books that attempt to explore the many complexities of Greek life and lifestyles right here in the present.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUntil now, that is, \"It’s All Greece to Me: Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life\", by longtime Athens News contributor John FL Ross, offers an accessible and dependable guide to the nooks and crannies of the modern Greek character, mentality, customs and attitudes. It offers a sharp-eyed and challenging, yet sympathetic, look at the rapidly changing nature of contemporary Greece at the dawn of the new millennium. Throughout, Ross writes with the clarity, gentle wit and perceptive insight that readers have come to expect from the author of the long-running and popular Thursday column On Second Thought.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b170441.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-0-6","isbn13":"978-960-86395-0-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":null,"publication_year":null,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2011-09-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":170441,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/its-all-greece-to-me.json"}]