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Mike Gerrard

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MIKE GERRARD


I am a full-time travel writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and websites in the UK and worldwide. My speciality is Greece, which I have visited every year for almost forty years (I started young).

I also write about food and drink for the travel pages, covering vineyards in Greece and New Zealand, breweries in Belgium and Britain, restaurants in Paris, a chocolate shop in Lyon, the biggest wine cellar in the world (in...
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The first really big breaking wave is quite beautiful, awesome. I see
what I think to be a white cloud coming into view at the windscreen.
It's the breaking crest of the wave, and just underneath it is enough
translucence in the water to see a spectacular deep blue, the kind of
intense and vivid colour you see in a glacier. Terrifying power and
breath-taking beauty all in one.

Clive Tully, Confronting Poseidion (2002)

 

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