What an interesting story!

EW's old girlfriend Carol Martin was with him in Crete and she sent me some photos of when they were there. They are on the site on the Photos of Edward Whittemore page linked from the Misc page.

I wonder if Jurgen remembers Carol. She and I have communicated by email several times, though not for some years, and she sounds like a lovely person.

She said EW was her best friend for life.


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: It was well after finishing reading the JQ
: when I found out EW had spent some time in
: Greece. Chania, Crete just so happens to be
: my family's holiday destination for years
: (the Greek! The Med! What's not to love?)So
: last year, summer 2017 and packed with JL
: Winland jr's thesis Opening the window I set
: off to the old harbor to EW's former
: residence. With me I carried Nile Shadows,
: EW's Greek book. I got a very warm welcome
: by Jürgen, an elderly German man who divided
: his time between London and Chania after
: first arriving on the isle in the early 70's
: - by racebike from Germany! Fell in love
: with the place and never left, sharing the
: place with an American he described as
: somewhat an einzelgänger - an Edward
: Whittemore. Having lived there now for well
: over 35 years, he showed me around the place
: and told me some great stories about his
: time there with Edward, whom he knew
: offcourse to be a writer. He gladly accepted
: the book admitting he started once when Ted
: was there but didn't get it, but promised to
: give it another go. We spent a wonderfull
: litlle time and it wasgreat meeting him, and
: I'm looking forward seeing my friend again
: in the future. I also found out there's
: another American on the isle (which isn't
: that much of a miracle, really) who operates
: a blog on the internet very inventively
: called An American in Crete, but I never
: managed to find out who that guy was - maybe
: later. I'll send a picture of the Crete
: residence, it's the building on the right,
: with the shutters on the second story being
: EW's bedroom. And just for the record: EW is
: just as elusive and unknown on Crete -
: except for Jürgen - as he is for the most of
: us today. But it was great being there and
: meeting Jürgen! All the best from Holland!
: Nick.
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