When Jennifer Barclay was a baby, her mum left her in the pram with the shopping and returned to find her eating a raw potato, which probably says a lot about her: impatient, impulsive, hungry. After graduating from Oxford, Jennifer moved to Greece in 1992, cleaning hotel rooms in Santorini while wearing a swimsuit. She then worked in Canada and France, and back in the UK, before returning to live in Greece in 2011, where she helped in a beach cantina run by her fisherman-boyfriend before spending an intoxicating summer at the taverna by the sea. The British travel writer has written about food and travel in her books (Meeting Mr Kim, Falling in Honey, An Octopus in my Ouzo, Wild Abandon and A Literary Feast) plus many major newspapers and in-flight magazines, has eaten noodles on Korean television and discussed kimchi with comedian Sandi Toksvig on BBC Radio 4.

"A feel-good book to put you instantly in the holiday mood" - Irini Tzortzoglou, MasterChef champion 2019 and author of Under the Olive Tree"Full of enthusiastic, vivid descriptions of the landscape, tender reminiscences of people. a love letter to the Greek summer" - Kathimerini, Greece"This book has changed forever how I see the tavernas by the sea that we so often visit (and love) while in Greece" - mygreektravellingspoon.com

• ContentsThe Hotel on the Mountain The Taverna at the BeachOpen for Business Hooked BirthdayLunch and Live MusicNew ArrivalsSpeedy GeorgeGoatDancing End of the Season After the Summer

1. 2/5

   Hade förväntat mig mer

   Jag har rest till Karpathos i 20 år nu och känner väl till ön. Jag hade hoppats att Jennifer skulle visa mig något nytt från den norra halvan. Jo, det var trevligt att läsa om vänner och bekanta men för en helt utomstående tror jag att boken är i tråkigaste laget. Väldigt mycket åka upp och ner i backen, städa, tvätta och laga mat. Striktare redigering kanske kunde ha stramat upp det till något slags berättelse. Nu känns det mest som dag efter dag utan något direkt att berätta.

   Karinafp

   06 maj 2024

When Jennifer Barclay was a baby, her mum left her in the pram with the shopping and returned to find her eating a raw potato, which probably says a lot about her: impatient, impulsive, hungry. After graduating from Oxford, Jennifer moved to Greece in 1992, cleaning hotel rooms in Santorini while wearing a swimsuit. She then worked in Canada and France, and back in the UK, before returning to live in Greece in 2011, where she helped in a beach cantina run by her fisherman-boyfriend before spending an intoxicating summer at the taverna by the sea. The British travel writer has written about food and travel in her books (Meeting Mr Kim, Falling in Honey, An Octopus in my Ouzo, Wild Abandon and A Literary Feast) plus many major newspapers and in-flight magazines, has eaten noodles on Korean television and discussed kimchi with comedian Sandi Toksvig on BBC Radio 4.

"A feel-good book to put you instantly in the holiday mood" - Irini Tzortzoglou, MasterChef champion 2019 and author of Under the Olive Tree"Full of enthusiastic, vivid descriptions of the landscape, tender reminiscences of people. a love letter to the Greek summer" - Kathimerini, Greece"This book has changed forever how I see the tavernas by the sea that we so often visit (and love) while in Greece" - mygreektravellingspoon.com

• ContentsThe Hotel on the Mountain The Taverna at the BeachOpen for Business Hooked BirthdayLunch and Live MusicNew ArrivalsSpeedy GeorgeGoatDancing End of the Season After the Summer

1. 2/5

   Hade förväntat mig mer

   Jag har rest till Karpathos i 20 år nu och känner väl till ön. Jag hade hoppats att Jennifer skulle visa mig något nytt från den norra halvan. Jo, det var trevligt att läsa om vänner och bekanta men för en helt utomstående tror jag att boken är i tråkigaste laget. Väldigt mycket åka upp och ner i backen, städa, tvätta och laga mat. Striktare redigering kanske kunde ha stramat upp det till något slags berättelse. Nu känns det mest som dag efter dag utan något direkt att berätta.

   Karinafp

   06 maj 2024