In the winter of 1882/3, the Bents made a short tour of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, disembarking, on their way home, at the Cycladic islands of Tinos and Amorgos to witness the Easter celebrations. They returned late in the year to the same region, the Greek Cyclades, their accounts featuring in Theodore's work (1885) The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks.[10] It was during this trip that Mabel Bent began what she called her ‘Chronicles’,[11] essentially her travel notes and diaries that her husband was to use on their return to aid him in writing his articles and papers.