Mar 21 2017
It’s not the best line of poetry ever written, but ….. “Spring has sprung, the grass is ris …”, and so, with apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson – “ In the spring, this month’s ‘Explore’, lightly turns to thoughts of a walk from Mahia over to Sarakina.” Allow four hours for this walk from one …
Feb 18 2017
The mountain village of Koustoyerako, high above and 10 km north-east of Sougia, has a long and proud history of resistance to foreign occupation, and so was destroyed by the Venetians, Turks, and most recently (in 1943) by the Germans. The wild and forested area above, fringing the White Mountains, was a stronghold for Cretan …
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