Editing Patrick Leigh Fermor (section)

===Early travels===
At the age of 18 Leigh Fermor decided to walk the length of Europe from the [[Hook of Holland]] to [[Constantinople]] ([[Istanbul]]).<ref>{{Cite news |title=Frugal Europe, on Foot |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/travel/23frugalwalk.html?src=me&ref=general|work=The New York Times |date=23 May 2010 |access-date=23 May 2010 |first=Matt |last=Gross}}</ref> He set off on 8 December 1933 with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the ''[[Oxford Book of English Verse]]'' and a [[Loeb Classical Library|Loeb]] volume of [[Horace]]'s ''[[Odes (Horace)|Odes]]''. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but was also invited by gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way.

Two of his later travel books, ''[[A Time of Gifts]]'' (1977) and ''[[Between the Woods and the Water]]'' (1986), cover this journey, but at the time of his death, a book on the final part of his journey remained unfinished. This was edited and assembled from Leigh Fermor's diary of the time and an early draft he wrote in the 1960s. It was published as ''[[The Broken Road (travel book)|The Broken Road]]'' by [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] in September 2013.<ref>Alison Flood, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/20/patrick-leigh-fermor-final-volume "Patrick Leigh Fermor's final volume will be published"], ''The Guardian'' (20 December 2011).</ref>

Leigh Fermor arrived in Istanbul on 1 January 1935, then continued to travel around Greece, spending a few weeks in [[Mount Athos]]. In March he was involved in the campaign of [[monarchist|royalist]] forces in [[Macedonia (Greece)|Macedonia]] against an [[Greek coup attempt of 1935|attempted Republican revolt]]. In [[Athens]], he met Balasha Cantacuzène (''Bălaşa Cantacuzino''), a Romanian [[Phanariote]] noblewoman, with whom he fell in love. They shared an old watermill outside the city looking out towards [[Poros]], where she painted and he wrote. They moved on to [[Băleni, Galați]], the [[Cantacuzino family|Cantacuzène]] house in [[Moldavia]], [[Romania]], where he remained until the autumn of 1939.<ref name="telegraph-obit"/> On learning that [[Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II|Britain had declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939]] Leigh Fermor immediately left Romania for home and enlisted in the army.<ref>Cooper, ''Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure'', 2012, p. 120.</ref> He did not meet Cantacuzène again until 1965.<ref name=WadGaz11>{{cite journal |title= Maurice Bowra on Patrick Leigh Fermor|author=[[Henry Hardy]]| publisher=Wadham College Gazette 2011 | pages=106–112 |editor=[[James Morwood]]| date=December 2011}}</ref>