A very GREEK ADVENTURE

Almost four decades after her first true teenage escapade, Miranda McMinn returns to Crete to see if she can recapture the moment

Looking back, I can hardly believe our parents allowed us to do this, but in 1982, when my two best friends and I had just finished our o levels and worked for a summer to save up, we booked tickets from the back of Time Out , got on a “Magic bus” on our own and travelled to Crete. We were gone for three whole weeks – four, if you include the journey, which took 60 hours each way. the three of us sat squished up on the back seat of a clapped-out coach that wound through France, switzerland and Italy, then bumped through yugoslavia, which was still behind the Iron Curtain then. We finally made it to souda in northwest Crete, and from there to a hippy hangout with a…

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Woman & Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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