The abbot of the Preveli monastery
By Antonis on November 15th / Crete,Culture,Islands,People / 0 Comments

I will not write here about the famous monastery of Preveli, located to the south of Rethymno , in Crete. I will not write about the famous Prevelis palm [...]
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The fools in the birthplace of Zeus
By Antonis on March 19th / Crete,Culture,Islands / 0 Comments

Lassithi Plateau, up on the mountains of Crete, was blurring in the background that noon. I sat in the shade of a holm oak and looked at [...]
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Oh, how I love the sea bottom…
By Antonis on September 30th / Crete,Culture,Photos,Tops Culture / 0 Comments

It was the first time I had been inside an U.S. base in Greece. It was deserted and empty and I drove between ground abandoned buildings. It was the [...]
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The folk sculptor in Anogia
By Antonis on April 19th / Crete,Culture,People,Tops Culture / 2 Comments

It was early afternoon, when I arrived at Anogia mountain village, in northern Crete. The bright spring sunshine draped the famous village, and a cool breeze was blowing from [...]
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Venetian Castle with celery
By Antonis on April 4th / Crete,Culture / 0 Comments

I’m in southern Crete. It’s springtime, nice and sweet. And I have with me a very lazy photographer. We arrived in Paleochora town on the shores of the Libyan [...]
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