An amazing day walking my favourite path in pure Cretan nature, old rocks, new flowers, animals, colours and scents. Meditation on the go. Walking sticks felt funny as I don’t use them, but it was ok for a bit of extra exercise. What can I say: walk this way…!
Liquid gold Interested visitors of the largest Greek island would everywhere find shelves full of spices and all sorts of products made from extra virgin olive oil. These days the packaging is getting more attractive and professional (thus giving the impression of a reliable choice). Quite understandably, an ordinary customer with little awareness and no
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How to create your own Rainbow? A new discovery I made recently while watering the orange trees in the garden My landlady asked me to water the orange trees in my garden. This is the first time ever I watered orange trees, and I had this idea not only putting water around the trunk, but
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This is one of my most intimate stories in the kingdom of animals. A genuinely personal, deeply touching experience that happened to me at the end of January 2015, as I was driving though the mountains in Sfakia, Southwest Crete. It was not the first time that I did the ultimate winding road between Kapsodasos and Kallikratis
‘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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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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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 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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Breathtaking run & hike this morning near the village of Kallikratis Could you resist to stop for a few moments of admiration in this magnificent environment? And maybe to say: Hello Universe! Wow! Scented purple everywhere – wild thyme makes my day! Just run and run. Over a few twists and turns now on a long and winding
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