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Sally Jane Smith is the author of Unpacking for Greece (June 2023) and Repacking for Greece (April 2024). She has lived on five continents and visited thirty-four countries, but she gives credit to Greece for turning her into a writer.

Sally’s story of her great-great-grandmother’s extraordinary life appears in the anthology Itchy Feet: Tales of Travel and Adventure. Her exploration of travel and grief is included in the Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2022.

Sally's first book, Unpacking for Greece, was selected by Greek News Agenda (a Greek government website) as Book of the Month for July 2023, and was awarded first place in the 'Prose in English' category of the Greek-Australian Cultural League 2024 Book Awards.

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A 1970s family photo mystery solved by an archaeology expert in Beirut, my favourite travel read of 2022, and a very important announcement (or two) about Unpacking for Greece - November's newsletter went out a couple of days ago, and it’s a blockbuster! There's linked video footage, there's an avatar, there are a THOUSAND elephants*

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“Passive and disconnected, I was trapped in the mundane. And it wasn’t helping me get my bearings, either. To do that, you need to walk. You need to climb steps, sniff the breeze, listen to the sounds of the city. You need to feel the cobbles beneath your feet and the sun’s heat on your neck as you consult maps and ask for directions and take wrong turns and find your way back again.”
Sally Jane Smith, Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta

“It was more a middlescence, a time of restlessness, frustration, alienation.”
Sally Jane Smith, Unpacking for Greece: Travel in a Land of Fortresses, Fables, Ferries and Feta

“In many ways, my week at Limnisa was the most uneventful of my travels, a hiatus from adventure. In others, it was the most significant. It had a deep effect on my psyche – deep enough to inspire a dream, weeks later, in which I was writing this book.”
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