Frommer's Greek Islands

by Bowman, John S.; Marker, Sherry; Kerasiotis, Peter; Sarna, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9781118096024
• ISBN10: 1118096029
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-21
• Publisher: Frommers

Summary

Frommer's Complete Guides America's #1 bestselling travel series More full-color guides than ever before Foldout maps in annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and insider tips

Author Biography

John S. Bowman has been a freelance writer and editor for more than 45 years. He specializes in nonfiction ranging from archaeology to zoology, baseball to biography. He first visited Greece in 1956 and has traveled and lived there over the years. He is the author of numerous guides to various regions in Greece; for several decades, his Travellers' Guide to Crete was the premier guide to that island. He currently resides in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Sherry Marker majored in classical Greek at Harvard, studied archaeology at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and did graduate work in ancient history at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of a number of guides to Greece, she has also written for the New York Times, Travel + Leisure, and Hampshire Life. When not in Greece, she lives in Massachusetts and London.

Peter Kerasiotis, a native Athenian, currently lives in New York City where he works as a web developer and editor. A newcomer to Frommer's, he hopes to continue a career of travel- and screenwriting.

Heidi Sarna is a freelance writer who has crisscrossed the world by ship for nearly 20 years, often with her twin sons and lucky husband in tow. Coauthor of Frommer's Cruises & Ports of Call from US and Canadian Homeports and Frommer's Singapore Day by Day, she has also contributed to several other guidebooks and writes regular travel columns for Frommers. com and Porthole magazine. She's written for many magazines, newspapers, and websites, including CNN.com, the International Herald Tribune, Condé Nast Traveller, Brides, the Straits Times, Expat Living, and Travel Weekly.

Table of Contents

List of Maps vi

1 THE BEST OF THE GREEK ISLANDS 1

2 GREEK ISLANDS IN DEPTH 12

3 SUGGESTED GREEK ISLAND ITINERARIES 36

4 CRUISING THE GREEK ISLANDS 48

5 ATHENS 92

6 THE SARONIC GULF ISLANDS 1

7 CRETE 190

8 THE CYCLADES 232

9 THE DODECANESE 331

10 THE NORTHEASTERN AEGEAN ISLANDS 377

11 THE SPORADES 405

12 THE IONIAN ISLANDS 430

13 PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO GREECE 453

14 THE GREEK LANGUAGE 483

Index 490