Travel Writing - Perhaps one of the most memorable places I will ever experience is the beautiful Greece consisting of many attractive and exciting little islands just waiting to be explored my millions of hungry tourists.

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Sarah Rogers                Jean Garland

AS Level English Coursework: Travel Writing

        Perhaps one of the most memorable places I will ever experience is the beautiful Greece consisting of many attractive and exciting little islands just waiting to be explored my millions of hungry tourists.

I was fortunate enough to visit the Greek island of Rhodes, staying in Lindos, a buzzing little town on the west coast of the island. Covered in thousands of little white sugar cube houses and peppered with cool blue swimming pools, I had myself my own little island paradise.

On arrival to Lindos, the first thing I noticed was the number of Greeks that spoke English. It really is amazing how many of the locals  have the politeness to learn our language and it made me feel so much more comfortable in the country I was excited yet apprehensive about visiting.  Lindos airport was very packed and disorganised. I had to hand it to the Greeks; they would have to come number one if there was an award for lack of organisation. There were no proper queues or barriers, people were milling around everywhere and there were many holiday reps and taxi drivers holding up name cards and anxiously trying to spot their customers. My family and I finally managed to find our taxi driver who took us to our holiday apartment and we all fell into bed or rather onto bed as the apartment was stiflingly hot and the white sheets provided were still too much.

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On walking into the pretty Greek town next morning I saw many local business people setting up various stalls for their day’s business. I could smell the scent of stray cats (a regular occurrence in Greek towns) and there were many scuttling around the edges of buildings. The air felt heavy and even at ten o clock in the morning, it was starting to feel quite hot. There were many little stalls selling items of cheap, mass produced tourist merchandise including pots, sculptures, sarongs and hats bearing words like ‘I love Greece’ of which I noted that only the obese ...

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