Still Plenty of Room ; If You Pick the Right Time of Year, You Don't Have to Be Crowded Out by Brits Looking Up Favourite Locations From the Hit Novel

Evening Standard - London › June 18, 2004

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CEPHALONIA has a strange effect on people. Whenever I mention that we are going to the Greek island for a one-week family holiday, someone who has been there before always turns mistyeyed recalling perfect days on idyllic beaches. Or at least they'd have a friend who had been on holiday there, which was their cue to recount vicarious tales of vacation bliss.

All of which made me suspect that the island, the largest of the Ionian Isles, would be teeming with Brits, searching in packs for that elusive deserted bay or isolated taverna.

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Still Plenty of Room ; If You Pick the Right Time of Year, You Don't Have to Be Crowded Out by Brits Looking Up Favourite Locations From the Hit Novel

So, I'm confused. If so many people visit Cephalonia, where were they all?

Apart from one sighting of the Loud English Family from Hell at a harbourside bar in Assos ('Ey, look Craig. They'll do you ...

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