by John Flawith | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, Food & Drink
Just to show how you could enjoy the surroundings, imagine you packed a picnics and set off for Kissamos. In the shade of a tamarisk tree… Driving the Paleo Ethniki – the old road from Chania west to Kissamos which avoids all the usual traffic. ...
by John Flawith | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog, Food & Drink
This is from the 2020 wine fair in Platanias, near Chania. Wines of Crete organise this event every year and its a great experience. Its a great place to try out Cretan wines. At last, a good Cretan sparkling wine! Douloufakis Champagne First of all, at last a...
by John Flawith | Sep 15, 2019 | Blog, Food & Drink
Worth carrying to the top of Korfi on the Lassithi plain! It began with Mythos… If you are into beer, Crete isn’t the desert that you might at first expect, given the ubiquity of Mythos, and the execrable Amstel. I have to confess that I love beer! ...
by John Flawith | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Food & Drink
One of the exotic sights to see in Crete is the Prickly Pear (Opuntia Ficus-Indica). Here they grow to enormous size in the wild, and in late August can have myriad blooms from which develop the fruits. These can be used in making prickly pear jam. Using...
by John Flawith | Jun 8, 2019 | Blog, Food & Drink
The Cheeses, the herbs, the grapes… Lets start on the Cretan diet, not with olive oil – about which we’ve already written a blog (part I!). But with milk, sheep and goats milk, because it?s the basis of the wonderful yoghurt and Graviera. Its the...
by John Flawith | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog, Drives, Food & Drink, Things to do
The village, nestling in the hills What’s to see on the drive This drive from the villa goes to the Creta Carob factory, the old village of Argiroupoli, the ancient tombs of Lappa and the taverna serving fresh trout farmed from rock pools formed by the stream. ...
