Embrace the romance of the Mani at Patrick Leigh Fermor House British author Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) caught the world’s imagination with his eye-opening accounts of travelling the world.

Outside the Patrick Leigh Fermor House View from Lela’s Taverna in Kardamili The region is a combination of starkly different terrains. You can start your day in the mountainous wilderness of Arcadia ...

One of the greatest travel books ever published, the late Patrick Leigh Fermor’s two-volumes of his walk across Europe in the 1930s, is finally finished.

Déon, who chaired the jury of this literary prize for many years, was also happy to honour Patrick Leigh Fermor, who also claimed to have a few drops of Irish blood.

The terrain to the north is greener, the landscape curling into vast walls of olive trees. I stop at the Patrick Leigh Fermor House.

Elpida Belogianni, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor’s cook at his home in Mani, in the southern Peloponnese in Greece, shares the recipes of some of the late author’s favorite dishes. This was Patrick Leigh ...

As well as Charmian and George, the island has charmed many creative artists, including Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sophia Loren, Sidney Nolan and Henry Miller, who ...

by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR SUMMARY. — Mademoiselle Berthe de Rennes is in her seventies and in a reminiscent mood when she tells the story of Saint-Jacques, a rich, fabulous little island in the ...

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor: war hero, polymath and arguably the world’s greatest travel writer. Emma Inglis stays in his home in Greece.

Leigh Fermor described it as ‘Byzantium Restored’ and later bequeathed the house to the Benaki Museum to be run as a cultural site and writers’ retreat. For three months a year, it transforms into a ...