Until recently, it was thought that humans began sailing the Mediterranean Sea around 12,000 BCE. But scientists now believe early Stone Age people arrived on Crete at least 130,000 years ago. Why the huge timeline shift? A Greek-American research team found man-made tools in 130,000-year-old rock formations in southwest Crete, near the village of Plakias. [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]