Wanderlust

Gareth Clark Living with the Fermors

“This is how it happens everywhere. Someone makes a beginning and others follow,” smiled Elpida Belogianni, fondly nudging an old picture frame.

The proof was all around me. I was stood in the lounge of one of Britain’s most celebrated travel writers, the late Sir Patrick ‘Paddy’ Leigh Fermor, gazing at an old photo of the home he’d built here over 50 years ago in a lonely bay in Greece. Back then, little but a thick stubble of

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