by John Flawith | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Drives, Places, Things to do
Early one morning at the old Venetian harbour The Chania harbour front, created in Venetian times, is special, quintessential Crete partly because the iconic lighthouse adorns the cover of many a guidebook! Passing the lighthouse on the way to fish The Venetian...
by John Flawith | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog, Things to do, Walks
Up in the Foothills of the White Mountains, looking east towards Souda Bay From the Apokoronas plain the Lefka Ori, the White Mountains, stretch out from Chania facing north east, to beyond Georgioupoli towards Rethymno. The foothills, up to 1600m high are split...
by John Flawith | Jun 15, 2019 | Blog, Things to do, Walks
Stand in the base of a gorge, and look up over 100m of vertical cliff, sometimes only a couple of metres apart. Its an awesome experience. As a result it brings home the sort of unthinkable forces which must have shaped them. River in the Samaria gorge The...
by John Flawith | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Things to do
When you are living in a place its important not to lose that holiday energy and inquisitiveness. There really is so much to do – Crete offers such a variety. We have never tired of it, despite living on the island for 15 years. This is a sort of cross section...
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...
by John Flawith | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog, Things to do, Walks
Thru the hills to the chapel There are so many lovely walks in the Apokoronas, in the foothills of the White Mountains in western Crete. They follow dry stream beds winding thru gorges, or amongst the orange groves. Everywhere in Crete is dotted with a white chapel,...
