GREECE: Instructions for Use
Just in time for your fall cruise, study program, or honeymoon,
it’s the latest edition to the Instructions for Use travel family:
Σας καλωσορίζουμε
By journalist and full-time Athens resident KAT CHRISTOFER
The palm-sized, illustrated handbook packed with the most pertinent, insider info is now available for Greece! Kat Christofer is the author of Greece: Instructions for Use, the unique, pocket guide that concentrates solely on the practical, cultural aspects of traveling, and even living in Greece.
Not what, but how. Like its companion guides for Italy and France, Greece: Instructions for Use contains everything the other guides don’t have the expertise or space to include, making it the ideal choice for
- both leisure and business travelers
- students studying abroad
- new residents in Greece, or anyone planning to relocate
No art. No history. No hotels. No restaurants. As elegant as it is useful, Greece: Instructions for Use is the ideal sidekick to any destination guide. This well-organized, in-depth, color-coded compendium keeps indispensable information at your fingertips:
★ Greek island hopping
★ International and cell phoning in, from, and to Greece
★ Eating & drinking like a local
★ Tipping, shipping, and shopping
★ Driving, parking, filling up, and road signs
★ Saving money without sacrificing experience
★ Traveling by air, internationally and within the EU, and by ferry, train, and bus
★ Making it less Greek to you with a mini phase book, and more…
Whether your destination is islands or inland, take along the travel expert that fits in your pocket. From preparation to repatriation, Greece: Instructions for Use provides the essential information you need, at the moment you need it. Just remember…
What’s the Word? Press and Praise
Friends don’t let friends travel to Greece without a copy of Greece: Instructions for Use.
— Christopher Elliott, Ombudsman, National Geographic Traveler
Concise but complete, simple but comprehensive, economical but valuable, “Greece: Instructions for Use” by Kat Christofer is an absolutely superb book to have on your next trip to Greece. Don’t leave home without it!
— Irene Watson for Reader Views
I’ve looked at a lot of guidebooks, but absolutely none are filled with as good and useful info as this one. It’s the only guide you need to enjoy your stay: even repeat visitors and residents of Greece will be surprised at how much they can learn. I only wish it existed the first time I came to Greece!
– Chuck Owens, President, U.S. Military Retirees Association of Greece (USMRAG)
A true traveler needs three things when embarking for a new destination: local knowledge, common travel sense, and common courtesy. This guide provides the first two; it is up to the reader to bring along the third.
— Bernard J. “Hutch”eon, International Travel Guide
So comprehensive, so readable, I wish we’d had this guide for official U.S. Government travelers when I was posted at the Embassy and Consulate General here in Greece. There are literally hundreds of nuggets. It’s not easy to snapshot the rapidly changing Greek environment, but Kat’s done it.
— Alec Mally, Former First Secretary, U.S. Embassy in Athens;
Social-Economic Counselor, USUN
A clever compilation of the best, most accurate info on modern Greece and tips found nowhere else, all presented in a clear, convenient and compact guide. It focuses on positive solutions, and it’s suitable for absolutely anyone planning to be in Greece…and yes, even Greeks! Bravo!
— Spyros Skareas, Guide & Tour Leader, www.greecebirdtours.com
It will be “all Greek to me” in the best possible way with this invaluable little book!
— Sally Watkins, Top-125 Travel Super Agents, 2004-2008
Don’t be fooled by this small book. It’s more powerful than you think!
— Cristina Dima, WhyGo Greece
In a country where changes happen continuously and without notice, you can “live your myth” with a lot more ease and understanding by taking along Greece: Instructions for Use.
— Kerri Michael, Tour Director and Greece inhabitant
The splendidly helpful Instructions for Use series is unique in that it doesn’t tell you WHAT to see or do but HOW to do it. Greece is the subject of the latest entry (Italy and France have preceded it), and it may be even more necessary, especially for first-time travelers.
Greece, after all, uses an alphabet few of us see outside of college fraternities and sororities, so this book’s excellent language guide alone means a lot. In addition to info on ordinary forms of transport in Greece, the Instructions includes info on a wide array of nautical options–not just large, ship-like ferries but barges, hydrofoils, catamarans and caiques–each making different demands on purse and person. And tucked in-between all the major instructions are handy and often surprising minor ones, such as Don’t buy produce off a pickup truck and Do bring plenty of mascara.
— Bill Marsano is an award-winning travel writer
Title Information
Title: GREECE: Instructions for Use
Subtitle: The Practical, On-site Assistant for the Enthusiastic (Even Experienced) Traveler
Authors: Kat Christofer
Classification: Travel / Greece
Published by: Illustrata Press, Nan McElroy, editor
ISBN-13: 978-1-885436-450
Price: $14.95
Format: Original Trade Paper, four-color
Dimensions: 4.25” x 5.5”, 120 pages
Pub Date: revised, Apr 2009
Illustrations: 4-color illustrations
Binding: Smythe-sewn
About the Author
In addition to reporting for the Guardian, Kathimerini and San Jose Mercury News, Kat authors the multifaceted livingingreece.gr and is now compiling a living and working guide for those interested in making a more permanent odyssey. She poured her heart into Instructions for Use, so everyone can venture beyond the sun, sand and sights of Greece to see its soul.
