After a varied career tour guiding, teaching English in Greece, and ‘trying to compete with John Simpson in getting news out of Zimbabwe’, Andy Bostock has been busy preparing a new Bradt guide entitled Greece: The Peloponnese (£14.99).

The book coincides with a change in Greek tourism as focus shifts from ‘sun and sand’ to ‘art and nature’, and the Peloponnese offers all these things as well as towering mountains and gorges filled with white water, hiking trails and ski resorts.

‘Fifteen or twenty years ago, you could still see old men going to their fields on donkey back, old women clad in black preparing vegetables on their doorsteps, main roads blocked by flocks of goats, olives being picked with no more aid than a triangular wooden ladder and a big stick, tractors made from converted lawnmowers, and village shops seemingly unchanged since the 1940s,’ says Andy, who has spent the last few years trying to decide whether to live in England or Greece. ‘In the Peloponnese you still can.’
 

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