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Within the Beating Heart of Crete
  • Chania – The Wonderful Area of Western Crete

    Chania – The Wonderful Area of Western Crete

    The City and the countryside of the Province Of Chania, Crete. I am writing my blog today to share with the world, the place where I live. I live and will probably die here in the Province of Chania, perhaps Crete’s finest part. This province lies in the west of Crete and is arguably the…

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  • Panagia Chrisoskalitissa Monastery, Elafonisi

    Panagia Chrisoskalitissa Monastery, Elafonisi

    The monastery of Panagia Chrisoskalitissa, Our Lady of the Golden Step in English, is in the remote southwest of Crete just six Kilometres from the lovely lagoon beach of Elafonisi. And it is glorious. Panagia Chrisoskalitissa Monastery I took this photograph when the sunset happened and thank heavens I had my camera to hand for…

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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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  • Cold Snap, It  Really Was

    Cold Snap, It Really Was

    I was very pleased to get our olive harvest in and pressed when I did because this last Cold Snap just beggar’s 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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