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DES HANNIGAN Saronic Gulf Islands, Cyclades, Ionian Islands
Des first surfaced (literally) in Greece many years ago in an Aegina harbour, having jumped off a boat into several feet of unexpected water. Ever since, he’s been drifting around the country whenever he can, although home is on the edge of the cold Atlantic in beautiful Cornwall, England. In a previous life Des worked at sea, valuable experience for coping with the Greek ferry system. One day he’d really like to hop round the islands in a very fast yacht with all sails set, although he would happily settle for an old caïque with just one sail. Des worked on the previous editions of Lonely Planet’s Greece and Greek Islands and has written guidebooks to Corfu and Rhodes for other publishers.
VICTORIA KYRIAKOPOULOS The Culture, Food & Drink, Athens
Victoria Kyriakopoulos is a Melbourne-based journalist who morphs effortlessly into an Athenian whenever she hits the motherland. She just clocked up her 269,010th kilometre getting to Greece, has travelled widely around the country and moved there for a while (2000–04), hoping to get it out of her system. Victoria wrote Lonely Planet’s first pocket Athens guide in 2001, did a stint as editor of Odyssey magazine, covered the 2004 Olympics for international media and worked on several television shows about Greece. She returns regularly for research (and pleasure), including for Lonely Planet’s latest Athens Encounter and Crete. An occasional food critic back home, when not writing or making documentaries, she is working through her extensive Greek cookbook collection.
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Gina Tsarouhas Born in Melbourne with Greek blood flowing through her veins, Gina packed her little suitcase at the tender age of four and took off for Greece. Gina flitted across various continents over the years until she discovered she could travel vicariously as an editor of travel guides, as well. When not editing she’s co-authoring and contributing to all things Greek at Lonely Planet, including Greece and the Greek Islands; or tending to her beloved fig and olive trees in the backyard. Gina worked on the previous edition of Greece, and wrote the Architecture and History chapters for this guidebook.
Richard Waters Richard’s first of taste of travel was as a 21-year-old driving around Central America in an old jalopy; it took him through Guatemala’s civil war and gave him his first taste of wanderlust. He’s been travelling ever since: across Southeast Asia, Europe, the US and Africa. His first visit to Laos in ‘99 brought the Hmong guerrillas to his attention and in 2002 he was among the first to creep into the Special Zone in search of their story. He’s since contributed to three books on Laos for Lonely Planet. He lives with his partner, son and daughter in Brighton and works as a freelance writer and photographer for British newspapers and magazines. You can see his work at: www.richardwaters.co.uk. Richard wrote A Who’s Who of the Ancient Greek Pantheon for this book.
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This 9th edition of Greece was updated by Korina Miller, Kate Armstrong, Michael Stamatios Clark, Chris Deliso, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Gina Tsarouhas, with contributions from Richard Waters. Janet White contributed to the boxed text, The Meteora: Geology of a Rock Forest. Paul Hellander authored on Greece 8 with contributions from Will Gourlay and Gina, along with Richard, Kate, Michael, Chris, Des and Victoria. Paul, Kate, Michael, Chris, Des and Victoria all worked on the previous editions, as did Miriam Raphael and Andrew Stone. This guidebook was