Matt Barrett.Net

I wanted Matt Barrett.com but it was taken. It was not even taken by another Matt Barrett but by someone who thinks I am famous enough to want to buy my domain name and sell it back to me for a million dollars. I think it's called cyber-squatting. So I e-mailed this person and they never responded. I suppose that means that I am not famous enough so that he can sell my name for a million dollars and he is going to wait until I get more famous. So until I make enough money to buy the domain mattbarrett.com I am using mattbarrett.net for my music and my writing and anything else that does not fit in greecetravel.com as well as a general index to my primary websites.

 You can e-mail me at matt@greecetravel.com

 

Index of Matt's Sites

Matt Barrett Music

First of all the reason I am famous enough for someone to buy my domain name and sell it back to me is not because I am a musician, even though I think that is what I should have been famous for. But after years of playing in small clubs....well mostly one small club called the Cave in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I gave it up. Yes the crowds were getting smaller and those that came to the bar were more intent upon watching whatever was on TV. But can you blame them? Who wants to see a fat, bald guy singing about the girlfriends he had when he was skinny, handsome and had hair? But my music was pretty good, especially if you like hard-edged pop. 

SPEARFISHING IN SKATAHORI

This is the funniest book about travel ever written. Just ask all my friends, some of whom stopped speaking to me after they saw themselves in my book. That's the trouble when your humor is brutally honest. But they will forgive me. Maybe at about the same time as I get the million dollars to buy Mattbarrett.com

GREECE TRAVEL GUIDES

The reason I am famous is because of my Greece Travel Guides which have been read by nearly a million people. In fact if every person who used my Greece Travel Guides had sent me a dollar I could probably buy Mattbarrett.com and not be stuck on the humiliating Mattbarrett.net. But if you are planning to go to Greece in the near or distant future or you just like to look at cool travel stuff on the web because it makes you feel like you have actually gone somewhere then visit my Greece Travel Guides 

A History of Greece

I began this website as an introduction to Greek history that I could include in my guides for people who knew nothing about Greek history. As I wrote it, the history got longer and longer with more and more photos, music and archival material so that it began to take on a life of its own. So I gave it a domain all its own at www.ahistoryofgreece.com

North Carolina Travel Guide

I began this site when I went to the beach and tried out a new digital camera. The photos looked pretty good so I made a page for them and then thought that since I spend much of the year in North carolina, why not make a travel guide to the state like my Greece Travel Guides. The first thing I did was write about the music of North Carolina and most people say that this is the best part of my guide, but if you want to visit North carolina you may find the whole thing pretty useful.

A Paris Guide

This is a website I did wth my friend Stephen Papadopoulos, a Greek-American poet who splits time between Paris and Athens. I discovered a great way to break up the 9 hour flight from NY to Athens was to spend several days in Paris. While this site is not as popular as my Greece websites there is a lot of good information, some nice photos and some excellent travel writing, mostly by Stephen.

AMARANDI BARRETT'S GREECE 4 KIDS

My daughter Amarandi has put together her own travel guide to Greece called GREECE JUST FOR KIDS. If you are thinking of going to Greece and you have kids that are not yet as enthused as you are about the prospects of a vacation thousands of miles away in a land they have never been to and maybe not even heard of, send them here.

MATT BARRETT'S GREECE PHOTO ALBUM

This is a great site if you want to see pictures of Greece because I have taken thousands. These are the best. Also included in this collection are my father's photos of Greece in the Sixties