Posted in Local Culture, tagged Greek News, Kathimerini on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
You may have noticed that our Greek News feed was down for a couple of days. There seems to be a problem with the ERT newsfeed, not here but with ERT itself. Anyway, I apologise to those of you who come here to see what is happening in Greece. But worry not, it is now [...]
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 Local Culture, tagged Zorba, Zorba the Greek, Zorba's Dance on March 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is another clip from Zorba, the film starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates, where Zorba dances until he is exhausted. In this clip we see the real attempt to display the exuberance of Cretans.
Thanks for all your responses on the last clip. This clip tells more of the story.
Posted in Local Culture, tagged Zorba, Zorba the Greek, Zorba's Dance on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I really love this clip from Zorba the Greek. It is the final moments in the film following the enormous disaster that Zorba caused running logs from the monastery on top of the hill down to the sea. The clip is taken on Stavros bay in the Akrotiri peninsular. Anthony Quinn is Zorba and Alan [...]
Posted in Local Culture, tagged Romiosini on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I wrote an article a while ago called Romiosini, the soul of Greece and I don’t know how many of you read that article. But it was for real. I spent some time back in the sixties and seventies working on what I had discovered as the soul of Greece. For English people coming to [...]
Posted in Life in Crete, Local Culture, tagged Carnival, Crete Carnival, Kalives 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 Local Culture, Places, tagged Spinalonga, The Island, Victor Zorba, Victoria Hislop on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 Local Culture, tagged Greek TV on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
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, 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 Local Culture, Places, tagged , Arkadi, holocaust of Arkadi, monastery of Arkadi, Turks at Arkadi on December 1, 2007 | No Comments »
For all those of you who have read the article - The Holocaust of Arkadi - either in the Crete Courier or here on this website in the Crete Courier section - Crete Courier 003 - or are just interested in the monastery of Arkadi, here are some pictures that I took a couple of [...]
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