The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean

"The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean" took readers on a 4,401-kilometer MedTrek through Morocco, Spain, France, Monaco and down the Italian coast to Rome in 2008. In 2013, "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean" takes readers 4,401-kilometers from Rome to the boot of Italy, around the islands of Sicily and Crete, into the Peloponnese, up Mount Olympus, on to numerous Mediterranean islands and down the Turkish coast to Imzir.

When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we re in for an exhilarating adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, he explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures as well as his own mind with compulsive vigour. Armed with a copy of Homer s Odyssey, he re-opens this great book for us as he ponders life, divorce, Buddhism, alcoholism, the art of trekking and a vast collection of weird, wicked, wonderful people along the way. This is a trip to get into!