Victoria Hislop
“To come to Greece meant that every single one of my senses was excited”
Victoria, you visited Greece on your first trip abroad aged 17 and have rarely stayed away for long since then…
Having almost never set foot outside the UK, coming to Greece at the age of 17 was such a transformative experience. To find myself in a place where the warmth, the colour and temperature of the sea are completely different, the food is very different. Back in ’70s England, there were not many imported foods available – everything was much more traditionally English; we had Cheddar cheese but feta, for example, wasn’t a supermarket staple.
To come to Greece
