Greece - Korina Miller [625]
periptero (s), periptera (pl) – street kiosk
plateia – square
rembetika – blues songs commonly associated with the underworld of the 1920s
Sarakatsani – Greek-speaking nomadic shepherd community from northern Greece
stele (s), stelae (pl) – upright stone (or pillar) decorated with inscriptions or figures
stoa – long colonnaded building, usually in an agora; used as a meeting place and shelter in ancient Greece
tholos – Mycenaean tomb shaped like a beehive
Vlach – traditional, seminomadic shepherds from Northern Greece who speak a Latin-based dialect
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The Authors
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KORINA MILLER
KATE ARMSTRONG
MICHAEL STAMATIOS CLARK
CHRIS DELISO
DES HANNIGAN
VICTORIA KYRIAKOPOULOS
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
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KORINA MILLER Coordinating Author, Dodecanese, Island Hopping
Korina first ventured to Greece as a backpacking teenager, sleeping on ferry decks and hiking in the mountains. She has since found herself drawn back to soak up the dazzling Greek sunshine, lounge on the beaches and consume vast quantities of Greek salad and strong coffee. Korina grew up on Vancouver Island and has been exploring the globe since she was 16, working, studying and travelling in 36 countries en route. She now resides in England’s Sussex countryside while she plots her next adventure. Korina has been writing travel guides for Lonely Planet for the past decade with 15 titles under her belt. Korina also wrote the Destination Greece, Getting Started, Events Calendar, Itineraries, Environment, Directory, Transport, Health and Glossary chapters.
KATE ARMSTRONG Peloponnese
Having studied history and fine arts, Kate headed to Greece aeons ago to view her first (noncelluloid) kouros (male statue of the Archaic period), and fell in love with the country. On several subsequent visits she’s rubbed shoulders with many ghosts of mythical beings in the Peloponnese, her all-time favourite region. She devoured kilos of feta and olives (to the delight of locals), several pigs (to the dismay of her vegetarian partner) and was treated to more hospitality than Aphrodite herself. When not wandering in mountainous terrains, Kate sets her itchy feet in Australia. A freelance travel writer, she contributes to Lonely Planet’s African, South American and Portuguese titles as well as Australian newspapers, and is the author of educational children’s books.
MICHAEL STAMATIOS CLARK Central Greece, Evia & the Sporades
Michael’s Greek roots go back to the village of Karavostamo on the Aegean island of Ikaria, home of his maternal grandparents. He was born into a Greek-American community in Cambridge, Ohio, and recently became a Greek citizen. His first trip to Greece was as a deckhand aboard a Greek freighter, trading English lessons for Greek over wine and backgammon. When not travelling to Greece, Michael teaches English to international students in Berkeley, California, listens to Greek rembetika (blues) after midnight and searches for new ways to convert friends to the subtle pleasures of retsina.
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CHRIS DELISO Northern Greece, Northeastern Aegean Islands, Crete
Chris Deliso was drawing maps of the Aegean by the age of five, and 20 years later he ended up in Greece while labouring away on an MPhil in Byzantine Studies at Oxford. Ever since studying Modern Greek in Thessaloniki in 1998, he has travelled frequently in Greece,