Long ago, before God invented ‘pick-up’ trucks, thus necessitating bull-dozed tracks and roads, communication between Cretan villages and ‘neighbourhoods’ was on foot, along shepherds’ paths or mule\/donkey trails. Some of these still exist, notably from Azogires both to Anidri and Spaniakos, and a beautiful but little-used route from Prodromi to Kamaria and Rodovani. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Others have been destroyed, replaced by \u201cmodern\u201d roads, or become overgrown through neglect. A friend from Spaniakos, now living in Chania, tells me how he walked with his family from Kalamos over to Kondokinigi, and on to Voutas and beyond. But that was over seventy years ago, and I can now find little trace of a path through dense gorse and oleanders, with wire fences often blocking progress.
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