From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Sat Jan 21 16:42:53 2017 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:42:53 -0800 Subject: [ilds] PLF Tour In-Reply-To: <31964F23-8833-4038-B534-837A769A41B9@me.com> References: <31964F23-8833-4038-B534-837A769A41B9@me.com> Message-ID: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: PLF Tour Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 19:40:30 -0500 From: Dominic Green To: William Apt CC: james.d.gifford at gmail.com Dear Professor Gifford, Our mutual friend Mr. Apt recommends that I send the attached to you for the ILDS listserv, and/or Facebook page. It?s a blurb for the Patrick Leigh Fermor Society?s tour of Greece in May 2017. As you?ll have heard, the Durrellians and the Fermorites effected a summit at Rethymnon last June, our tour conciding with your conference. There was interest from some of the ILDS attendees in future tours. Many thanks, and looking forward to meeting you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: In Paddy's Footsteps Blurb 2.0 2017.doc Type: application/msword Size: 30720 bytes Desc: not available URL: From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Sat Jan 21 16:44:15 2017 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:44:15 -0800 Subject: [ilds] PLF Tour Message-ID: Dear all, For anyone who doesn't receive the .doc attachment (such as digest subscribers), I've pasted it below. Cheers, James ----- In Paddy's Footsteps: A Tour of Patrick Leigh Fermor?s Greece and Crete with the Patrick Leigh Fermor Society 7th-19th May 2017 Following the success of the inaugural Patrick Leigh Fermor Society tour in 2016, the Society is organizing a second tour for summer 2017. In Paddy?s Footsteps is a unique journey into Patrick Leigh Fermor?s Greece and Crete. Between 7th and 19th May 2017, a group of no more than twenty travellers will visit major sites in PLF?s life: from his favourite restaurants and hotels, to the homes where he lived and wrote; from Classical monuments to the caves in which the Kreipe kidnappers hid. Our guides will include several Leigh Fermor experts. The tour begins in Athens, where we will eat at Tou Psara, where Leigh Fermor and George Katsimbalis often ate. We then travel through Mycenae and Epidavros to Leigh Fermor?s preferred hotel in Nafplion. From there, we visit the Ghika house at Hydra, where much of Mani was written, and the mill at Lemonodassos where Leigh Fermor lived in 1935-36. Then, after stopping at Mystras, we will visit Leigh Fermor?s house at Kardamyli and explore the Mani. Next, we travel to Crete where, after visiting Knossos and the Kreipe kidnap site, we will be based at Rethymnon. From there, we shall trace the kidnappers? journey into the White Mountains, and tour the Resistance sites of the Amari Valley. Our journey ends at the beach at Rodakino, from which the Kreipe party were evacuated in 1944. * Four-star hotels, air-conditioned private transportation. * Expert speakers and guides, including Chris White (contributing author of ?Abducting a General?), and Costas Malamakis (former curator, Historical Museum of Crete). * Private visit to Leigh Fermor?s Mani home, guided by his housekeeper Elpida Beloyanni. * Guided tours of the Kreipe abduction site and escape route, and the Resistance sites of the Amari Valley. * Optional tours of the Benaki Museum, the Hadjikyriakos-Ghika House, the town of Chania, and the Samaria Gorge. * The tour is strictly limited to no more than twenty travellers. * Cost: 3000 Euros per head (party of 10-14), 3300 EU (party of 14-20), including Athens-Heraklion flights, all private ground transportation, hotels, breakfasts, 16 lunches or dinners, conference fees, and guide fees. * To register or request further details, please email info at patrickleighfermorsociety.org