Editing Patrick Leigh Fermor (section)

===Later years===
After living with her for many years, Leigh Fermor was married in 1968 to the Honourable [[Joan Leigh Fermor|Joan Elizabeth Rayner]] (née Eyres Monsell), daughter of [[Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell]]. She accompanied him on many travels until her death in [[Kardamili|Kardamyli]] in June 2003, aged 91. They had no children.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Joan Leigh Fermor |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joan-leigh-fermor-36610.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joan-leigh-fermor-36610.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=11 November 2018 |work=The Independent |date=10 June 2003}}</ref> They lived part of the year in a house in an olive grove near Kardamyli in the [[Mani Peninsula]], southern [[Peloponnese]], and part of the year in [[Gloucestershire]].

In 2007, he said that, for the first time, he had decided to work using a typewriter, having written all his books longhand until then.<ref name="Smith"/>

Leigh Fermor opened his home in Kardamyli to the local villagers on his [[Name days in Greece|saint's day]], which was 8 November, the feast of [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] (he had assumed the name Michael while fighting with the Greek resistance).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10515438 |title=Greece: The write stuff |last=Rainey-Smith |first=Maggie|date=10 June 2008 |website=NZ herald |access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref> New Zealand writer [[Maggie Rainey-Smith]] (staying in the area while researching for her next book) joined in his saint's day celebration in November 2007, and after his death, posted some photographs of the event.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://patrickleighfermor.org/2011/06/11/maggie-rainey-smiths-tribute-to-sir-patrick-leigh-fermor-and-her-2007-meeting/ |title=Maggie Rainey-Smith's tribute to Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor and her 2007 meeting |date=11 June 2011 |website=Patrick Leigh Fermor |access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://acurioushalfhour.com/2011/06/11/sir-patrick-leigh-fermor-3/ |title=Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor |last=Rainey-Smith |first=Maggie |date=11 June 2011 |website=A curious half-hour: conversations with my keyboard |access-date=13 January 2019}}</ref> The house at Kardamyli features in the 2013 film [[Before Midnight (2013 film)|''Before Midnight'']].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brevet |first=Brad |date=22 May 2013 |title=''Before Midnight'' Location Map – Celine and Jesse Vacation in Greece |work=Rope of Silicon |url=http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/mapping-before-midnight-follow-celine-and-jesse-around-southern-peloponnese/ |access-date=30 October 2013 |archive-date=1 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201215202/http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/mapping-before-midnight-follow-celine-and-jesse-around-southern-peloponnese/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Leigh Fermor influenced a generation of British travel writers, including [[Bruce Chatwin]], [[Colin Thubron]], [[Philip Marsden]], [[Nicholas Crane]] and [[Rory Stewart]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3559958/Patrick-Leigh-Fermor-The-man-who-walked.html |title=Patrick Leigh Fermor: The man who walked |last=Dalrymple|first=William |date=6 September 2008 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref>