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Within the Beating Heart of Crete
  • The Skinakas Observatory, An Amazing Visit, Almost.

    The Skinakas Observatory, An Amazing Visit, Almost.

    We decided to visit the Skinakas Observatory. Here is the blurb info: “The Skinakas Observatory is located on the peak of Skinakas at an altitude of 1750 m., a few kilometres after Anoyia and 60 km from Heraklion. The Skinakas Observatory has been built and operates as part of a scientific research collaboration between the…

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  • Joni Mitchel

    Matala and Joni Mitchell.

    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 1970/72 – five years after 1966 when I went there and it seems that it had developed a bit…

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  • Alluring Matala in the 1960s

    Alluring Matala in the 1960s

    Those of you who may have read my book Secret Crete, Searching for my Home, 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 Matala in the sixties happened I don’t know, but…

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