I have also written two books...
I have to admit that the idea did not come to me from the start. It was after spending many weekends in great and not so great small hotels that it slowly dawned on me that my experiences could actually be the basis for a book that could eventually even be helpful to people. It was a long and arduous process, not least of which was finding a publisher who actually thought that this was a worthwhile project. I eventually did, however, and my first book (Great Small Hotels in Greece) was published in December 2002 and proceeded to sell nearly 20.000 copies, proving that the market was definitely there and there were many people looking for exactly the same places as I was. Later on I decided to team up with a great photographer, fellow Dutch André Bakker, to produce a second book (Around Greece in 80 Stays) in March 2006. While the first book put its emphasis on discovery, the second focussed more on bringing out the beauty of the selected places and the stories of the people behind them. A third book – more comprehensive, a sort of ‘ultimate book about small hotels in Greece’ is now underway, at least in my thoughts, and hopefully at some point in the not so distant future also in print.