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    Travel Like You Mean It!
    Travel Like You Mean It!
    Travel Like You Mean It!
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    Travel Like You Mean It!

    By Patricia Hajifotiou

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    Patricia Hajifotiou delivers a distinctly different book on the subject of travel. Insider tips along with funny stories, are interspersed with 'pinch yourself moments'. Leading tours abroad for 19 years, Patricia relates her adventures from a tour leaders' point of view. Hilarious travel fails plus the #1 way to make your next trip the best it can be.

    -Instructions to download this book- Click on the appropriate button below for your needs. For example if you have a Kindle or the Kindle app on your smartphone or tablet, hit the Kindle button. You can also just download it straight to your desktop or laptop by hitting the .pdf button. If you have any problems, email me at patriciahajifotiou (at) gmail.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatricia Hajifotiou
    Release dateAug 3, 2016
    ISBN9780986343421
    Travel Like You Mean It!
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    Patricia Hajifotiou

    American author Patricia Hajifotiou spends most of her time on the island of Evia, Greece where she resides with her husband, Manolis. Travel Like You Mean It! is her second book. A different kind of travel book with insider tips and pinch yourself moments. Included are hilarious travel fails along with the authors #1 way to make sure your next trip is the best it can be!

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      Travel Like You Mean It! - Patricia Hajifotiou

      Travel

      Like You Mean It!

      By Patricia Hajifotiou

      Co-Owner of The Olive Odysseys

      Ode Press

      P.O. Box 351 Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022

      Copyright 2017, Patricia Hajifotiou & Ode Press. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at Ode Press P.O. Box 351 Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022

      Publisher’s Note: This is a work of non-fiction. Names have been changed to protect the identity of persons mentioned in the following stories. When names have been used it is with written permission from said persons.

      Ordering Information: Quantity sales. Special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For details, contact the Special Sales Department at Ode Press at the address above.

      Travel Like You Mean It! 1st edition

      ISBN 978-0-9863434-2-1

      To Genoefa Tamborello Goodman-thank you for sharing your story with me

      To all of our trippers-thanks for teaching me so much

      Contents

      1. Introduction

      2. How Travel Has Changed

      3. Insider Tip #1

      4. Insider Tip #2

      5. Pinch Yourself Moment #1

      6. Local Local Local

      7. True Trickledown

      8. When Things Go Wrong

      9. Pinch Yourself Moment #2

      10. Pinch Yourself Moment #3

      11. When Things Go Right

      12. Ten Tips To Make Sure Things Go Right

      13. Pinch Yourself Moment #4

      14. Always Be Kind

      15. Moment of Kindness #1

      16. Moment of Kindness #2

      17. Five Important Things I Have Learned From My Trippers

      18. The #1 Secret To Your Best Trip Ever

      19. Join Us Three Ways

      1. Introduction

      Dear Reader,

      A few words on what this book won’t be.

      Moving from the U.S. to Greece in 1998, my husband’s birthplace, we started working for a company doing cycling and walking tours of the Greek islands and mainland. Since then we have led many of our own tours both on and off the bike. Due to the personal way we organize out trips I have found it hard to come up with a term for the people who join us on our travels. Calling then clients, takes away from what we experience traveling together. Customers sounds like we are selling appliances and the word friend, rubs me the wrong way. So for the sake of being clear I will call them ‘trippers’.

      In this book I will not tell you tales poking fun at some of our trippers’ stupid questions, dumb comments or clothing fails (It is hard-there have been some real winners!). Hopefully you will find some of the stories funny, but only at my expense. I learned early on not to relate ‘how stupid’ stories of previous trippers to the

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