This book is packed with fascinating facts and stories from Greece; its people, food, customs, language, history, sport and its spectacular sights and sounds. What do you know about: the Olympic Games in 776 BC? Homer, Alexander the Great and Father Christmas? the astonishing Acropolis in Athens? why Greeks paint their eggs red at Easter? sponges, olives and a harp played with hammers? a goat dance from Skyros and a food fight on Chálki? a períptero? what pythons, helicopters and dinosaurs have to do with the Greek language? Pick your brains and find out!

Caroline Sanderson is a freelance journalist whose articles regularly appear in The Bookseller , The Times, and travel magazines. She lives with her family in South London in a house with too few bookshelves. Caroline loves Greece, goes there as often as she can, and even has a Greek flag in her bathroom!

Softcover. 128 pages. In English