Korina Miller first ventured to Greece as a backpacking teenager, sleeping on ferry decks and hiking in the mountains. Since then, she's found herself drawn back to soak up the timelessness of the old towns and drink coffee with locals in seaside kafeneio. Korina grew up on Vancouver Island and has been exploring the globe independently since she was 16, visiting or living in 36 countries and picking up a degree in Communications and Canadian Studies and an MA in Migration Studies en route.
Korina has written nearly 40 titles for Lonely Planet and also works as a children's writing coach. Alexis Averbuck lives in Hydra, takes regular reverse R&R in Athens, and makes any excuse she can to travel the isolated back roads of her adopted land. She is committed to dispelling the stereotype that Greece is simply a string of sandy beaches. A travel writer for two decades. Alexis has lived in Antarctica for a year, crossed the Pacific by sailboat and written books on her journeys through Asia and the Americas.
She's also a painter. Melbourne-born Carolyn Bain worked on her first guidebook for Lonely Planet back in 2000, and It involved some serious Island-hopping around Greece. There began two addictions: writing guidebooks, and the Greek Islands. Fifteen years later, this trip fed those addictions over a glorious two-month stint, in which Carolyn visited ail the Cyclades. She has now visited 50 Greek Islands - and has way too many favourites.
Michael Stamatios Clark: Michael's Greek roots go back to the village of Karavostamo on the Aegean Island of Ikaria, home of his maternal grandparents who emigrated to America. His first trip to Greece was as a deckhand aboard a Greek freighter, trading English lessons for Greek over wine and backgammon. Since then, he has become a Greek citizen, visits the islands often and enjoys rembetika and retsina He has also worked on Lonely Planet guides to Burma (Myanmar), New York and Hawaii.
