“When I first set foot on Greece- FYI that was my very first trip outside Australia- I fell in love with it. I don’t know exactly what it was, but I just loved this country. Back then I was 20 years old, now I’m over my 50’s, but Greece is always my destination.”
That’s how a former journalist from the Sydney Sun-Herald, Marjory McGinn, described her relationship with Greece.
Three years ago, she, along with her husband Jim Bruce, also a journalist, and their dog Wallace, left Scotland to embark on an adventure in the wild and beautiful southern Peloponnese in crisis-stricken Greece.
The couple settled in a hillside village in the Mani, where the local residents shared their lives, laughter and stories. Marjory decided to write a book, recently published, about their humorous and insightful journey through one of the last unspoiled regions of Greece entitled Things Can Only Get Feta.
The book is full of encounters with warmhearted Greeks who said are proof Greece still has its heroes, if not euros. “We wanted to live like Greeks, in the province, far from the British people. Besides, I’ve always had in mind to write a book for Greece which I did.”