The house in Kardamyli, Greece that belonged to travel writer Patrick “Paddy” Joan Leigh Fermor and his wife drew a bohemian crowd of artists and intellectuals from the 1970s through the early ...

Niko and Barbara Ghika, John Craxton, and Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor on the terrace of the Ghika house in Hydra, 1958 Joan Eyres Monsell was born in 1912, three years before Leigh Fermor.

“Patrick Leigh Fermor’s house, Kardamyli, Messinia, Greece.” This was deeply pleasing to me. Ever since I first read A Time of Gifts about ten years ago, I have always thought it would be ...

In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off to walk across Europe ... helping him tidy up his papers in his study in the house he and his wife built for themselves in the village ...

British travel writer Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, who tramped across Europe ... said his publishing house, John Murray. The author lived most of the year in Greece, near the southern village ...

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor had leventeia ... him up into a round of celebrations and reunions and house parties, where Leigh Fermor revelled in company. Among them were brothers-in-arms ...

Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was born in London on February 11 ... who chose to be buried near Leigh Fermor's home in Greece. This was a house at Kardamyli, deep in the Peloponnese and overlooking ...

A FAMOUS ANECDOTE, told by Patrick Leigh Fermor himself in his book Mani, relates how on one furnace-hot evening in the town of Kalamata, in the remote region for which that book is named ...

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