Oct 26 2018
Once upon a time, after a stressful spring and summer, Lynne and I booked a package holiday with UK Freelance Holidays, to “quieter Crete”, in a place we’d never heard of – Paleochora – and stayed a week at Olive Tree Cottages, just outside the town. Lynne’s plans to cook wonderful vegetarian meals were abandoned …
Sep 29 2018
It started with an enquiry from Barry, who had heard of possible Roman remains called Kalamyda, close to Paleochora, did I know anything about them? No, and neither did any knowledgeable local historians I asked. Some time later, I found references in Robert Pashley’s “Travels in Crete – Volume 2”, published in 1837, and there …
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