Review: A vacation to foreign countries without leaving home
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
This book has a little bit of many nationalities, areas of the world and flavors of food and traditions.  Scottish, Greek, English and German are a few.  There is also a whole new set of words to learn like Greek food dishes and titles of people.Set on the island of Crete, the story begins with Kristy, a Scottish owner of a kafenion (first word to learn – a Greek coffee shop).  Then there is Barba Yiorgos (another word – Barba meaning respect for an older man).A tourist couple comes into Kristy’s kafenion and thus starts the tale of a long ago love story of Barba Yiorgos’ father.  The story goes that he fell in love with an English woman during the German occupation of Crete.  He was married to another through an arrangement of their families to prevent a war.  She shows him a red silk chiton (dress) with Gorgona, the two-tailed mermaid embroidered on it.  She believes it means the village has accepted her but it brands the owner as a lose woman someone who stole another woman's husband.Now the couple as disappeared and Kristy can’t leave it alone.  She has to know what happened to them.If you enjoy stories of forbidden love, betrayals, murder, greed, vendettas, hidden rituals, famous monasteries and abandoned villages, this book will provide all of that.