{"id":23850,"date":"2016-09-05T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.com\/?p=23850"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:42:35","slug":"finding-inspiration-in-the-peloponnese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/finding-inspiration-in-the-peloponnese\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Inspiration in the Peloponnese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23879\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nafplio3-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"Nafplio3\" width=\"607\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nafplio3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nafplio3-250x164.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nafplio3-500x329.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Nafplio3-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Victoria+Hislop+For+The+Mail+On+Sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Victoria Hislop For The Mail On Sunday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my new book, Cartes Postales From Greece, my fictional character makes a journey around Greece and falls in love with the Peloponnese.<\/p>\n<p>In order to write about him, I had to go travelling myself, heading westwards from Athens to this wonderful southernmost part of mainland Greece.<\/p>\n<p>I began in autumn, with plenty of energy to sightsee (this is the perfect season, with the sea staying warm enough to swim in until mid-November) and my travels soon shaped the route that my character Anthony would take and inspired the stories he would tell.<\/p>\n<p>I went where tourists throng as well as to places where they don\u2019t tend to hang around for long.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I found myself where they don\u2019t go at all, occasionally because of my terrible map-reading. Mistakes sometimes led to happy discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>For example, crossing mountains on a rough track because I had missed a turning led to the most spectacular views of pine forests and waterfalls I would otherwise have missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(See the original at the <a href=\"http:\/\/greece.greekreporter.com\/2016\/09\/04\/writer-victoria-hislop-finds-inspiration-in-greeces-peloponnese\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mail on Sunday<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victoria Hislop For The Mail On Sunday &#8220;In my new book, Cartes Postales From Greece, my fictional character makes a journey around Greece and falls in love with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,446],"tags":[454,459],"class_list":["post-23850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartes-postales","category-news","tag-cartes-postales","tag-mail-on-sunday","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriahislop.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}