Sally Jane Smith

Sally Jane Smith has lived on five continents and visited thirty-four countries, but she gives credit to Greece for turning her into a writer. In 2006, the bus on which she was travelling through Sri Lanka suffered a head-on collision, breaking both her body and her spirit. A decade on, she journeyed to Greece in a quest to recover her wanderlust - and proved it is possible for an out-of-shape, middle-aged woman on a budget, equipped only with a guidebook and her mother's 1978 travel diary, to experience a remarkable adventure. This is the story that became the 'Packing for Greece' series. 'Unpacking for Greece' was selected by Greek News Agenda (a Greek government website) as 'Reading Greece Book of the Month' for July 2023 and won First Prize in the Greek-Australian Cultural League’s 2024 Book Award for Prose in English. 'Repacking for Greece' was shortlisted for a book award by the Society of Women Writers NSW in Australia.