A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Dear Xan, As I have only just finished piercing these travels together, the times dealt with are fresh in my mind and later events seem more recent still; so it is hard to believe that 1942 in Crete, when we first met- both of us black-turbaned, booted and sashed and appropriately silver-daggered and cloaked in white goats' hair, and deep in grime- was more than three decades ago.Wow, does this man ever finish a sentence!
