Posted in Life in Crete, tagged Concert at Hania Harbour, Hania, Mouskouri, Nana, Nana Mouskouri on July 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The farewell concert last night from Nana Mouskouri was very good, bearing in mind that Nana was born on the 13th of October 1934 in Hania and today is 73 years old.
She sang very well and we enjoyed the concert tremendously in spite of the fact that twice the generator broke down and everything was [...]
Posted in Life in Crete on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I have recently applied to join the top 100 Cretan sites list and been accepted. The way that it works is that you, the reader, have to vote for us to get anywhere near the top. So if you like this site and want to vote for us, just click here and then click the [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Local Culture, tagged Greek Easter, Pasxa, Holy Week on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week, the week before the Easter celebrations is known in Greece as Megali Evdomada, Holy Week or Great Week. Today is Megali Pempti, Holy Thursday, the day that traditionally the people of Greece hard boil and die their eggs the colour of the blood of Christ - red.
Tomorrow is Good Friday, a day of [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, tagged Crete Flowers, Flowers of Crete, Lily, Orchid, Wild Iris, Wild Lupins on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I guess that you all know by now that the Island of Crete has a huge number of wild flowers. Many are found only in Crete. It is in the springtime that these flowers mostly burst out into their individual beauty. And that is when I’m on the prowl with my trusty camera. These pictures [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Local Culture, tagged Kalives Carnival, Carnival, Crete Carnival on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow is clean Monday, the first day of Lent and the day that all Greeks go and fly a kite on the beach or a high hill. But today, today was Carnival Day. Here are some pictures of our local carnival in the town of Kalives, Hania.
These are a few of the well dressed locals [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, tagged Fennel, Pistachio, Spring in Crete, Wild Anenomes, Wild Irises on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Although yesterday was a tad cloudy in Hania, we decided to hunt for spring in the Amari valley - 500 metres above sea level. Around two weeks ago we had a cold snap that was part of the worst cooling period in February for fifty years - all across the northern hemisphere. Yesterday in the [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Local Culture, tagged costs of olives, Crete, olive, olive harvest, olives on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Last year we harvested the olives pretty early, the first couple of weeks in November and the oil was great, if a little peppery. This year we waited a little until the day after New Years day, the first week in January. This time is much busier for the olive presses too, with truckloads turning [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Places, tagged , Crete dam, crete dam signs, signs, size of dam in crete on November 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Just to give you all some more information and in respect to a couple of requests I will put up two pictures of the signs by this new and huge dam. Then I will post another photograph which may help to see just how really big this dam is.
This is the first sign, certainly the [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Places, tagged , Agricultural water, Dam, EU, European Commission, Rethymno, Rethymno water, Venetian bridge, water on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ti na karnoume - what can we do? Life goes on. This week has been a quiet week in the village. Last Friday we had the quiz at a taverna interestingly called A Popsi. Then, the next day, I drove up to the Amari valley to see Lampros at the taverna Aravanes to [...]
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