More on Beauty, Cruise Ships, Music Gone Missing On the one hand, Imerovigli feels a bit empty. Most of the restaurants are closed (but not Bella Thera with great food for very reasonable prices) and all the hotels are closed. It appears that we only see other people on the…
Some of you may have read my comments about the brightness of the light in Crete. It turns out we were only halfway there. On Santorini Zeus likes to push the Brightness slider way past +100. For those of you that are blondes and redheads prone to getting sunburnt rather…
When we confirmed our Airbnb stay in Santorini, the owner, Stefanos, told us that his assistant, Zachos, would meet us at the bus stop and guide us to the house. I texted back that there was no need for that. All we needed was an address and we’d find our…
We’ve had calendars featuring the Islands of Greece on our kitchen wall for decades. We read the captions every month, but the names really had no significance for us. The calendars were pretty pictures that we stopped seeing but they were great for keeping track of family and friend birthdays.…
Or, Who Gets to Interpret the Past? It turns out that, like most any field of human endeavor, there are factions within the archaeological community. Some say the limit is to dig up the artifacts, clean things up, put them back in place for viewing. Some say it’s okay to…
We had two nights left on Crete and the last one was going to be a simple sleepover in Iraklio (known to Google and such ilk as “Heraklion”.) We wanted something cool and different for the last “real” night on Crete and we’d heard that south-central and south-east Crete was…
