Sphakia, A Wild and Secret Side of Crete
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Antikythera – Ancient Greek Computer
By Evangelos Vallianatos Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when a violent storm threw their boats to Antikythera, a tiny island located just north of...
Evans, Knossos and the Minoans – Facts and Forgeries
When you look at the advertisements for Crete, usually provided by the Greek tourist board, a huge amount of publicity is given to the ‘great Minoan civilisation’ discovered by Arthur Evans at the turn...
The area of Chania, Western Crete
The City and the countryside of the Province Of Chania. I am writing my blog today to share with the world, the place where I live. I live and will probably die here in...
Eleftherios Venizelos, The Great Man of Crete
Birth of Crete – Venizelos Eleftherios Venizelos – The Great Man of Crete Just two years before the Holocaust of Arkadi in 1864, a child was born in Mournies, a village just south of Hania....
The Fig Tree
(opens in a new tab) Ah the wonderful fig tree. It grows everywhere and the figs appear mostly in October and November, although there are, of course, winter figs, even spring figs, and summer...
Zorba’s Dance
I really love this clip from Zorba the Greek. It is the final moments in the film following the enormous disaster that Zorba caused running logs from the monastery on top of the hill...
Rebetika, the Source of Modern Greek Music
Rebetika is one of those Greek words that has no translation in English. We have referred to it as ‘Greek blues music’ except that it differs from what we call blues music in English....
Shine on Plakias
Plakias is a nice fairly small beach resort in the south of Crete. All summer long there people sunbathing and a plethora of beach umbrellas. In the early spring, in March, I took this...
Visiting The Skinakas Observatory
We decided to visit the Skinakas Observatory. Here is the blurb info: “The Skinakas Observatory is located on the peak of Skinakas at an altitude of 1750 m., a few kilometres after Anoyia and...