Driving west of Iraklion on the E75 highway, we turned southward toward Fodele (pronounced Foe-deh-lay). The road runs through the lush Pantomantris river valley filled with citrus groves and native forest. Fodele is a quiet farming village is known for its oranges and macramé artists, but it is mainly noted as the place where Domenikos [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]