After two relatively easy walks earlier this year, here’s a longer and more challenging route – one that we used as ‘training’ for our trek in Nepal (see February’s ‘Explore’.) It’s described in Loraine Wilson’s guide “The High Mountains of Crete” (Cicerone), where she writes: “This is an old transhumance trail and a direct footpath …

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It seems appropriate, after the wettest winter in many years *, that this month’s ‘Explore’ should include a visit to a waterfall …. or a cataract (from the Greek ‘kataraktes’). And not just any waterfall, but the 15m cascade at Retzakas, reputedly the highest in the Selino and Kissamos regions, and possibly the highest in …

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