Comments on: What Zorba Taught Me about Greece

By: Jackie Smith

Jackie Smith — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:38:11 +0000

We traveled for three weeks last October (2009) in Crete. My two travel goals for the island were what I called my ‘novel destinations’ that I had written about in our travel blog (www.travelnwrite.com)prior to our trip. Neither let me down.

First destination was Zorba’s beach where we were transported back to the days of filming the movie as we dined at ‘Mama’s Place’ — where cast and crew had eaten during the filming. Petros, Mama’s son who was 16 then showed photos and entertained us with stories of the filming.

Our second stop was Spinalonga at the opposite end of the island, once home to ‘the living dead’ — a leper colony. We’d learned of it through Victoria Hislop’s “The Island”.

Without the two books we would have missed both places. Of course we discovered many wonderful places in addition to those and also found a great book as result of discovering a place. I would highly recommend “In Sfakia” by Peter Trudgill (Lycabettus Press, 2008) as an entertaining and informative read on one of our favorite ‘finds’ on the island’s southern coast.
.-= Jackie Smith hopes you will read blog ..Just west of Las Vegas we hit the Jackpot! =-.

By: Vera Marie Badertscher

Vera Marie Badertscher — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:02 +0000

I remember that village and that small taverna. That was a marvelous ten days. Thanks.

Ken

By: pen4hire

pen4hire — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:13:05 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Mike. I’m so glad you enjoyed the post. Yes, I read Passion of Christ long ago and loved it. Anything Kazantzakis writes is okay by me.

By: Mike Gerrard

Mike Gerrard — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:07:33 +0000

What a lovely piece of thoughtful and evocative writing about a great book, and it brought back a lot of memories for me of Crete, the book, and the movie. Kazantzakis has of course written many more fine books, and I particularly like The Passion of Christ, set at the time of the Turkish presence and vividly recreating village life at that time, built around the production of a Passion Play.

By: pen4hire

pen4hire — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:03:48 +0000

Oh I do hope you’ll get to Crete some day. And reading anything by Kazantzakis will make you FEEL that you are in Greece, anyhow.

By: Frugal Kiwi

Frugal Kiwi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:24:05 +0000

Not up for a trip to Crete at the moment, but I'll try and pick up the book next time I'm at the library. .-= Frugal Kiwi´s last blog ..Felt Me Up | Hand Felted Soap =-.

By: Kerry Dexter

Kerry Dexter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:11:52 +0000

creates the country where he travels in the sense of not seeing beyond the end of your own nose (and culture), or creates by taking things in in a new environment? which do you think he meant? .-= Kerry Dexter´s last blog ..reflections with Maura O'Connell =-.