A visit to The Walled Garden at Astley Hall, Chorley in England. My friend Laurence Hostier McCormick and her partner brought this park to revival and also created a hugely successful community food growing scheme which is run by the help of volunteers. They received a special award for their conservation and environmental work.
‘Flower Dance’ is my favorit tea of the week from Earth Seed, a local health shop in Kalyves. The tea blend contains blueberry and bramble leaves, rosehip shells, orange peel, sunflower blossoms and lavender, sage, pink and red rose petal, ginger flavored. Looking at the magical and colourful blend evoked in me the memory of the magnificent photograph ‘The Dancing
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A real unforgettable experience with the Kokotsakis family and all their shepherd friends. Great company, lots of fun for us visitors, with quite a bit of serious insight of the shepherds’ life in the Cretan villages! This is one event of a series whereas all the guys have their own flock of maybe a few hundred sheep
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How do you get to rejoice a magnificent water journey in Sfakia alongside the South shores of Crete? You have to know the right people to get to the most magnificent places. And I am not talking about the on-purpose, business-oriented, networking-to-get-what-you-want sort of approach. I mean our natural-born curiosity combined with a tiny bit of open-hearted coming.
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Hungarian cheese pie (strudel) now made with Greek fillo pastry and fresh mizithra cheese. The tasty mizithra used here is from the organic farm of Ingrid Margarita and the Kokotsakis family. Petros makes this fresh cheese from the milk of his goats and sheep.
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A walk before lunch in the old harbour of Chania on Sunday. Anchored by the breathtaking movements of the traditional Cretan dancers.
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The girls who climbed up the coloured hills and came down from the White Mountains. A bit of walking, better to say hiking, to the mountain refuge of Kallergi which is located on the western region of Crete, above the plateau of Omalos, at an altitude of 1680 metres at the White Mountains (Lefka Ori). It
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A first-in-a-lifetime (but probably not once) experience with hard work and a lot of fun. You believe it or not, even the olive harvest is based on the net now… Our ancestors did not have this comfort… Anyways, can you believe starting the olive harvest without proper gloves? Check out mine! Enjoy the photos. The day in
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A real hot experience. In the middle of the day. In the heat of August. I directed and photographed my own movie of bugs’ life in order to keep up the with the challenging collection days. Before you have a look at all these creatures in the fields around Crete, let me tell you just a
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