We’re cooking more ideas about living here permanently (‘monima’ – sounds monumental). Yesterday we met a German couple, a cozy retired maths teacher, his independent wife, still hacking a 3 subject teaching job, and their gigantic, floppy Leonhauzer (?) doggy. They’ve put up a cabin on some land by the sea here and my first… Continue reading Flights and rugs and aching knees
Gavdos Savvato-Kyriaki…
Gavdos lies like the dark hump of a hippopotamus rising out of the sea in the dead centre of the view from my apartment here. To get there from my part of the south coast of Crete, it takes an hour and a half by the flashy new high-speed boat. You can also take the… Continue reading Gavdos Savvato-Kyriaki…
Where it all began..
Sleeping on the deck of the ferry from Pireus to Iraklion. Dawn rising in July 1973, me a kid with a bunch of radio-astronomers, on an unlikely adventure to the far south of Crete. (All of these photos © Ralph Grey, photographer extraordinaire). A lotus-eating, Numero Ena-smoking, sociable, frying-in-the-sun and who knows what kind of… Continue reading Where it all began..
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