I have been inspired by many wonderful travel books, but there is a very special one that I return to time after time. At the tender age of 12 I read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, and it made me yearn to travel to Corfu. I could smell the heady scent of the flowers, hear the relentless chatter of the cicadas, and see the fireflies lighting up the pine-scented night. I wanted to walk through shady olive groves, see shiny black beetles as fat as thumbs, and swim alongside sea cucumbers in clear turquoise waters. Durrell’s childhood, his eccentric family, and their strawberry-coloured villa, completely captivated me. Two years later I travelled to Corfu with my parents and it was everything I’d hoped it would be.

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