Product Review - This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables

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This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables

This Way to Paradise - Dancing on the Tables
by Willard Manus
Interlink Publishing
ISBN: 960-7269-47-0
List Price: $20.00
346 pages, illustrated

Guide Rating -

Pros	• pro #1 Fascinating look at the expat life at Lindos on the island of Rhodes • pro #2 Short-term travelers get a glimpse of the real island life • pro #3 A cheerful, easy read

Cons	• con #1 Outside of the cover, all photos are black and white • con #2 Strictly a memoir - no current info on hotels, etc • con #3 It may tempt you to try to do the same thing - will you ever come back from Rhodes?

The Bottom Line - Highly enjoyable for both the general traveler to Greece and those visiting Rhodes in particular

Product Description

•	Reviewed elsewhere as a Greek Year in Provence, this story of house renovation and real life on Rhodes spans thirty-five years
•	The early years of the author's stay on Rhodes cover the freewheeling 1960's and the jet set discovery of Rhodes
•	It's an excellent way of painlessly absorbing modern Greek history as the author relates the various political events which occurred as he raised his family on Rhodes.

Guide Review

Enchanted by the idea of living and working in Greece? This vibrant book will entice you to do just that, while at the same time offering enough cautionary tales to deter all but the most determined. Author Willard Manus has spent much of the last thirty years living on the isle of Rhodes, watching with a clear and clever eye the many changes those decades have brought to his beloved Lindos. Now known as a thriving tourist destination, Manus recalls the days without running water and electricity and when a lone tourist bus made the daily pilgrimage to the village. While most of the book deals with the author's adventures in Greece, the account of his wife Mavis' seemingly successful bargaining for a Turkish rug should be required reading for all tourists planning on travel in the region.
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