About Greek Island Hopping E-guides

No guidebook can contain everything its author would like to include, and even the well-filled Greek Island Hopping is no exception. The E-guides section of this web site- still under construction - is intended to be part of the solution to this, with a series of stand-alone 'guides' by way of background material to the Greek islands and the printed book.
 

The first e-guide on the stocks is the greatest travel guide to the Cyclades ever penned - the famous account of a six month journey to 22 islands in the winter of 1883-4 undertaken by a young Englishman - James Theodore Bent - and his Irish wife Mabel Hall-Dare, at a time when Syros was the only island that could boast either roads or hotels. This might sound to some to be a subject on the deadly side of boring, but it isn't - far from it:

'' Everywhere in the Cyclades we were told that when we came to Mykonos we should hear the best lamentations over the dead in Greece..... So we went to Mykonos with the firm determination of waiting there until somebody died, and in the cold changeable days of March we did not anticipate that we should be long delayed. ''

'' There are a great number of Blear-eyed people in Santorini... and a painful number of idiots and lunatics, and no asylum for them. ''
 
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