Posted in Local Culture, Places, tagged Spinalonga, The Island, Victor Zorba, Victoria Hislop on February 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The island of Spinalonga (actual name Kalidon) lies just off the coast of the village of Plaka, near Elounda, Agios Nicholaos, in Crete. The name Spinalonga is Venetian meaning ‘Long Thorn’.
It came to note in the year of 1579 when the occupying Venetians created a fortress on the island. Some years later when the Ottoman [...]
Posted in Memories, Places, tagged Carey, Joni Mitchell in Matala, Matala on February 26, 2008 | 21 Comments »
For all those of you who responded to my last posting, here are the words of Joni Mitchell herself regarding Matala in Crete and the song ‘Carey’. It appears that Joni was in Matala, Crete around 1968/69 – three years after 1966 when I went there and it seems that it had developed a bit [...]
Posted in Memories, Places, tagged Matala, Matala in the sixties, the sixties on February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Those of you who may have read my ‘Early Days’ stuff on this website will have come across my visit to Matala in 1966. Or you may have heard the stories from the days when this tiny bay became the hippie capital of Crete. Why it happened I don’t know, but the bay was truly [...]
Posted in Local Culture, tagged Greek TV on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know that it’s a little after Valentines’s Day on February 14th but this clip from Giannis Kotsiras singing Stin Ygeia Mas in english is just right . . . .
Posted in Life in Crete, tagged cold snap in Crete, snow in Crete on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was very pleased to get our olive harvest in and pressed when I did because this last cold snap just beggars belief. This morning the cat’s water that we leave outside was frozen solid. Two inches of ice in a place where we never hardly ever approach zero centigrade never mind get to minus [...]
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