by John Freedman | Jul 5, 2020 | Blog
The fortress standing atop a huge boulder in the south-central Cretan village of Charakas (stress on the first A) is the kind of thing I live for. Nobody really knows anything of substance about it. It’s old, that’s obvious. You see that when you’re...
by John Freedman | Jun 27, 2020 | Blog
I usually use this blog space to focus attention on a single place or single topic. At times, like today, I stray from that tradition. Today I felt like using my photos to saunter aimlessly around one of my favorite cities on Planet Earth – Chania, Crete. It is...
by John Freedman | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog
It is said we will never see the remains of what might have been the greatest of all the Minoan city-states, surpassing Knossos, Phaistos and the others. We know for a fact that there was a great settlement and palace at Kydonia, on the hill known as Kastelli,...
by John Freedman | Jun 21, 2020 | Blog
My wife Oksana and I were headed in the direction of Falasarna a few days ago when we turned the corner at Kissamou Harbor and saw a huge, spectacular cloud coming at us at high speed over the top of the Gramvousa peninsula. There was a turn-off from the main road...
by John Freedman | May 22, 2020 | Blog
Greece is preparing to reopen after several months of quarantine, and Crete is right there with it. On May 25 Crete will see people sitting down at cafes and restaurants for the first time since mid-March. There will be limits to the number of people that can be...
by John Freedman | May 17, 2020 | Blog
I know where we were yesterday, but I cannot tell you exactly where it was – except to say it was a little bit of heaven. No matter how I zoom in on Google maps, I cannot find a name for the beach. It is located north of Nopigia Beach (and northeast of Drapanias...
