Andrew Bostock was born in Kenya in 1972, but grew up in south London. An English degree at Oxford did nothing to prepare him for the real world, and he has pursued the typical ‘varied career’ of many writers. This has included teaching English in Greece, tour guiding, managing bookshops, and trying to compete with John Simpson and the BBC in getting news out of Zimbabwe. In between all this he spent several years living in various places in the Peloponnese, and his daughter was born in Kalamata. Ten years ago Andrew unexpectedly retrained as a physics teacher, and worked in Suffolk for seven years before moving to Alexandria, a once great Greek city. He is now moving to Suzhou, China, about which he knows nothing.
To celebrate the release of the new edition of our Greece: The Peloponneseguidebook, we chat to author Andy Bostock about he first stumbled on the peninsula and his tips for those visiting.
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