Sally Jane Smith has lived on five continents and visited thirty-three 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. Sally's story of her great-great-grandmother's extraordinary life appears in the anthology Itchy Feet: Tales of Travel and Adventure. Her exploration of travel and grief is included in the Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2022. Sally's first book, Unpacking for Greece, was selected by Greek News Agenda as 'Reading Greece Book of the Month' for July 2023.
