What is the best beach in Greece?
Where is a good place to vacation with children?
Which island welcomes its guests most warmly?
“Greek Blue” answers these and many other questions.

Forty destinations near and far—from Thasos and Chalkidiki to the lesser-known southern islands; useful tips on sailing, local cuisine, and historical landmarks… But in this “Guide to the Near and the Unknown,” you’ll discover more than just golden beaches, photogenic sunsets, and practical information for travelers. It also features vendettas, seals, political assassinations, volcanoes and earthquakes, a love story, pirates, and shipwrecks; you can hear the footsteps of Homer and Kazantzakis, Gerald Durrell, and Leonard Cohen.

“Greek Blue” can be read as a guidebook when you’re heading to our southern neighbor; but also as a fairy tale that will transport you to Greece whenever you need at least an emotional break—to the song of the cicadas and the gentle sea breeze.

The book is being published in a second, revised and expanded edition, featuring eight new chapters and over 300 color photographs. The new destinations described by Anita Dimitrova are Corfu, Skiros, Lesbos, Samos, Kea, Patmos, Lipsi, and Leros.

“This book won’t convince you to go on vacation to Greece—it will take you there. It’s not a travel guide, it’s not a handbook, it’s not a travelogue, it’s not a photo album—it’s all of these things combined. But above all, it’s a gift. It’s a gift from someone who has crisscrossed Greece along all the traditional and lesser-known tourist routes. Anita Dimitrova has gathered sights, flavors, facts, and impressions, and now she’s pouring them like little shells into the palm of your hand. But don’t imagine that the book is poetic. True to her journalistic instincts, the author doesn’t write a single sentence without precise information, and drawing on her experience as a film critic, she isn’t afraid to share both the best of “Blue Greece” and some of the shadows cast by insatiable tourism. This saves you time on research and helps you avoid unintentional mistakes. And “Greek Blue” isn’t an advertisement. This book is a vacation.”

Veselina Sedlarska

Contents:

The White Sea for Beginners

• Thasos
• Chalkidiki
• Amuliani
• Thessaloniki
• Sailing
• Food

Yamas from the Aegean Sea

• Volos and Pelion
• Skiathos
• Skopelos
• Alonissos
• Skyros
• Limnos
• Lesbos
• Samos

Ionian Blue

• Parga and Epirus
• Corfu
• Paxos
• Kefalonia
• Zakynthos

The Cycladic Chalk Circle

• Naxos
• Syros
• Mykonos
• Andros
• Kea
• Serifos
• Milos
• Ios
• Santorini

The Mythical Island of Pelops

• Peloponnese
• Nafplio
• Manny
• Monemvasia
• Elafonisos

Where the Guest Is God

• Crete

Further, deeper, bluer

• Kitira
• Sifnos
• Amorgos
• Kymolos
• Patmos
• Missing Items
• Leros
• Hydra