Lead Review (Taverna by the Sea)
- Book: Taverna by the Sea
- Location: Karpathos, Tilos
- Author: Jennifer Barclay
The author is well settled on Tilos but decides to venture over to north Karpathos, which is an island in the Dodecanese between Rhodes and Crete.
She has booked into accommodation run by Minas, a Greek American, and she stays beyond her initial booking period, through the Summer to help out in the taverna and organise rooms for the guests who travel to this remote region. Getting there itself is a complex task but the scenery and simple living more than make up for that. She manages to bring her dog after the initial odyssey (when she has a house sitter taking care of it) and you can really appreciate her storytelling, as she slips into local life.
Dealing with injuries and new characters, she conjures up a real vision of life lived in Greece, away from tourist hot spots.
The food wafts off the pages as the days pass and the brilliant colour of sea and sky burns itself into the brain of the reader. This is just such a nice way to experience Greece through the eyes of this author.
I do think it is interesting that Bradt seem happy to publish the book in its current format. The cover looks pretty unprofessional and when you open up the pages, you are confronted – not with the cream quality of the majority of books – but a lurid white with purple tinges that just reeks cheap publishing. 🙅♀️
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