An electric tram carries us from the Faliro waterfront to Syntagma Square in about forty minutes. It is a short walk from the Syntagma station to the Ministry of Culture office, where we must present our credentials to obtain scholar passes. Since the official paperwork won’t be done for a few days, we walk back [Read More]
A road trip with friends took us to the south coast of Crete and a monastery famous for much more than religious [Read More]
What is creativity? It is the act of turning a unique idea into something we can see, hear, smell, touch, or taste. We [Read More]
Traveling with Cretan friends, we boarded a ferry at the port of Iraklion bound for Karpathos — an island at the [Read More]
On our second day, we looked forward to exploring towns in the southern part of Karpathos. All of these are very old, [Read More]
Shortly after breakfast, we walked up the street to an old stone well to meet our bus. Pigadia is known for its wells [Read More]
Driving west of Iraklion on the E75 highway, we turned southward toward Fodele (pronounced Foe-deh-lay). The road runs [Read More]
Brightly colored posters went up last week announcing the “shadow theater” was coming to our village. Long before [Read More]