Home sweet home
In Patrick Leigh Fermor's telling of it, the Mani region of Greece comprises two harsh elements: searing sunlight and endless...
Tree reflecting banks
A river lined on both sides with tree-covered banks, reflected in the water and in each other.  As you follow...
Tawny-maned horses
A journey you would never want to end, the way Leigh Fermor describes it.
'Poppies scattered the green crops, the...
Pickled inside and out
Here is a novel form of the elixir of youth - no magic potions, just preserved in brine and other...
My kinda cat – III
This is one memorable cat. Patrick Leigh Fermor had chance to observe the same big tom-cat every night in Athens...
Green-leaf invocations
Surely a practice worth borrowing or reviving? Leigh Fermor describes a woman beginning each verse of her song with such...
Bullet-echoing crags
Beware the bullet-echoing crags, wherever they are. You can hear those cowboy-film ricochets in this one.
'... bullet-echoing crags of...
Horse-taming Argos
Leigh Fermor echoes the hundreds of Homeric triologisms, many attributing this or that characteristic to one or another Greek city...
Bat-haunted cave
In general, I would run a mile from anything bat-haunted - apparently random, erratic flight patterns bring out some primeval...
Shrivel-cheeked hermits
May you be spared all shrivelling. Why do words of similar sound have something mean-spirited in them: shrivelling, snivelling, grovelling,...
The loss of a journal
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh...
A winter warmer
Nothing like it, climbing under a meringue-like eiderdown on a freezing winter night, and sleeping off all fatigue.
'... an...
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