Feta Compli!

by John Manuel

How meeting a girl with a Greek mother in a smoky bar in Bath, UK, eventually led to living in Greece. Only it took the best part of 30 years! If you like lighthearted yet informative travel books, this is right up your street. Travel writing at its best. FETA recounts how the author and his wife drove from the UK to Rhodes with all they possessed in a white van, then set up home and began a new life. The book also contains plenty of amusing anecdotes from numerous visits to all parts of Greece over the space of three decades or more.

332 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 22, 2009

About the author

John Manuel and his half-Greek wife moved from the UK to Rhodes in 2005. Since then he has written five factual books about his visits to Greece over a period of four decades, plus his years of living on Rhodes. He has also written eight novels. John and his wife are keen recyclers, walkers and readers. They are both passionate about gardening, and the natural world too.
John Manuel kept a blog about life on Rhodes called 'Ramblings From Rhodes', and it has thousands of regular followers all over the world. Since moving to Crete in 2019, he's started a new blog called 'Accretions.'
He also runs a Facebook page called 'A Good Greek Read', which he founded in 2015, and which has since expanded to a membership of thousands, also from all around the globe. The purpose of the group is to provide a 'virtual library' for anyone seeking their next read with a decidedly Greek theme.
The couple now live in a tiny village in the hills above Ierapetra, Lasithi, Crete, which is the southernmost town in the entire continent Europe.

Reviews

[Mr. Peter Eisenhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Manuel is as fun as Bill Bryson

Mr Manuel is wonderfully observant, and his description a of traveller trials and tribulations are side splitting.

Well worth reading and going to Greece with John before you get in a plane yourself.

[Roger Mason · Rating 3 out of 5]

A humorous refection of moving to a Greek island, an easy read that flits back and forth between the 70's and 2004/5