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Active travelers trust National Geographic to deliver what they want in a guidebook: expert advice, insider tips, and the cultural feel of each destination not easily found online. These guides are pitch-perfect for today's experiential travel enthusiasts who want an authentic, enriching immersion.Explore the best sites in Greece--from the Acropolis and ancient Delphi to Athens's newest neighborhoods and Santorini sunsets--with this gorgeous guide, replete with updated information and travel tips, cut-away illustrations of some of the country's famous structures, an array of detailed maps, and sumptuous photographs. Broken into chapters by cities and areas (including Athens, the Peloponnese, Macedonia and the North, and both the popular and lesser-known islands), it also features a fascinating introduction to Greek history and culture.



About the Author

Mike Gerrard

I'm a full-time travel and drinks writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines, and websites in the UK and worldwide. In addition I've written over 40 guidebooks, one podcast, three radio plays, a collection of my travel writing (Snakes Alive) and a crime novel (Strip till Dead) .

I publish several travel content websites and two drinks websites, publish the Beyond Travel Guides, and divide my time between my homes in Cambridgeshire in the UK and near Tucson in Arizona.

My awards include:

A Travelex Award for Best Travel Consumer Magazine Feature
A British Guild of Travel Writers Award
Two Awards for Excellence from the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild
A Benjamin Franklin Award in the USA for a guidebook to Paris
One of the Press Gazette's 50 Most Influential Travel Journalists in the UK
AITO Online Travel Writer of the Year
Shortlisted for AITO Travel Blogger of the Year for this piece on my Travel Distilled website
I publish several travel content websites and two drinks websites, publish the Beyond Travel Guides, and divide my time between my homes in Cambridgeshire in the UK and near Tucson in Arizona.

Testimonials
This must be one of my favourite articles ever. I love it. It really took me back to the Metropolitan - such a special place.
- Viara Challier, Account Director for Kentucky UK, Ireland and Europe (KentuckyTravel.co.uk) , referring to my piece BB King Stayed Here for my Perceptive Travel blog.

Tremendous story Mike! Fantastic lead and closing. As a PR person, I love you! As a travel writer, I hate you! Damn! I wish I could write leads like that. This article is about as good as it gets! We'll promote it and get you (and us!) thousands of views.
- Rich Grant, Former Communications Director, VisitDenver.com and now freelance PR and writer, commenting on my piece The Train they Never Robbed, published on my travel page at The Huffington Post.

You're fast becoming my favourite freelance!
- David Lofhouse, Lofthouse Enterprises, Destination Marketing.



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