“The best interview anybody has given me in recent memory.”
— Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar and The Mosquito Coast, adapted for HBO Max, remarking on Anthony Grant’s exclusive interview published in Forbes, Kathimerini and reprinted in the Greek Column
“We had no idea there was a beach this beautiful so close to our hotel until Anthony told us about it.”
— Two travelers from California visiting Crete, guided by Anthony Grant
Anthony Grant (pictured above in, yes, Ios)
For most of the last twenty years or so I’ve been writing online and in print for media like The New York Times T Style Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Conde Nast Traveler and many other publications you probably once bought at newsstands or found in the seat pocket in front of you aboard major airlines. I’ve written award-winning travel guides, appeared on CNN, MSNBC and CBS News and even co-hosted a morning television show in Tel Aviv. You can find my “byline” in publications like Wonderlust and National Geographic.
Why subscribe?
Where travel and tourism intersect with pop culture is a thread running through the tapestry of the news and stories you’ll find on Greek Column, where accuracy and breaking news is always in style but with a dash of irreverence too. The goal is to be informative and a little different, so you can put together a trip of your own that’s both intelligent and unscripted.
With the Substack model, I’m offering an escape from and alternative to the watered-down “travel writing” that is now mostly guided by race-to-the-bottom algorithms and AI, with the G — as in genuine — being lost in the digital fog. Greek Column is your digital Greek diner where you can feast on a quality of travel writing and honest reporting you simply won’t find elsewhere.
What you will get:
As a subscriber, you will be supporting an authentic voice in the ongoing battle against them bots. And as a paid subscriber you get to the front of the line for hot travel tips and access to special offers and upgrades that can help save you time and money before, during and after your trip.
I grew up an admirer of the great travel writers like Mark Twain, the late great Jan Morris and Paul Theroux. I received the Lowell Thomas Prize for Best New Guidebook (Boston). Here we take our cue from the classic storytellers and journalists to report on the best new stuff particularly from the Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on Greece and also Cyprus.
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We are proudly published on a San Francisco, California based platform (substack)and our domain is registered with Papaki in Heraklion, Crete. We are proudly based in Athens, Greece.🇺🇸🇬🇷
