Guide Books: Greece and Corfu

I've been checking out some of my guide books, The Rough Guide to Greece (undated edition) and Lonely Planet's Greece (2000 edition). Time to buy some updated editions!

Some errors noted, with reference to Corfu:

The Rough Guide to Greece:

p. 607 "Nikos Mantzelos" (should be Nikos Mantzaros)

p. 613, on the Achillion: "Aptly, the palace was the birthplace of the Greco-German Prince Philip (aka the Duke of Edinburgh, consort of the Queen of England".

Prince Philip was born in Mon Repos, not the Achillion.

p. 615, on Kalami: "KALAMI, set on curved bay, was the site of Lawrence Durrell's Prospero's Cell - which he wrote at the White House"

Lawrence Durrell did not write the book at the White House, but later, in Egypt.

Lonely Planet Greece (2000):

p. 703: "The Solomos Museum occupies the building that was once the home of the poet Dionysios Solomos".

This is not the original building, but a relatively recent one built on the same site.

p. 705: "The next village of interest is Kalami where the White House was the home of the Durrell brothers".

Lawrence Durrell lived at the White House, Kalami with his wife Nancy. Gerald Durrell did not live there with Lawrence.

Such little mistakes are easily made (and I am sure they have been corrected in later editions), but it makes you wonder how far you can trust even the best guidebooks.

But note: mistakes are often perpetuated. The Rough Guide to the Ionian Islands (3rd edition, August 2003) states on page 87, "The White House, where Durrell wrote Prospero's Cell...."