Crete
Arrival Date: Oct 2, 2013Entries from Crete
Ruined
For the past three days we’ve been bopping around in our hot little rent-a-car through the Peloponnese Peninsula, the area to the north and west of Athens. To capture it all in a phrase, Dolo
From Crete to Athens
It’s an early Sunday morning in the town of Napflio, Greece. On my walk from our pension down to this bench near the sea I passed the only other humans awake at 7am, old Greek women in black going t
Images of Crete
Our first taste of Greece is the southern island of Crete. Most of our stay was in the quaint town of Chania, There we had our first taste of Greek cuisine--olive oil, yogurt, crusty bread, wicked str
Crete scenes
This isn’t the scenic Greece of photographs, the blue-and-white domes of churches rising in villages of chalk white homes, of old women in black hunched over at the waist and leaning heavily on cane
Crete
It’s Wednesday morning, October 2nd. I’m sitting on a balcony in Crete that looks down on a pedestrian walkway and looks outward to the sea. Really, what am I doing here? What is Crete? Yes
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