Homecoming on Crete

I’m often asked for recipes from the Saturday night dinners I used to make, here’s a quick and simple recipe, many thanks to Lynda Evans for reminding me of this one: 4 small boiled beetroot, chopped 2 -3 cm chunks […]

Lovely to see the first poppy flowers beginning to appear this week, sprinkled among the large crown daisies and swaying gently in the spring-like warmth. These are the days when all of nature seems bursting with enthusiasm, even on a […]

 A few nights ago I was scraping ice from the windscreen of the car before I could use it….no silly – not in Paleochora!

………..of many seasons in these parts, that’s how it looks as I make my weekly journey over the mountains to Hania and back.

Sunday 7th December 2014 Dear Diary, I’m confused, has someone switched the seasons about and not told me? I’ve spent the afternoon in the garden weeding

Liz in coldest Norway needs a recipe for Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake, almost harder to write out than for me to make as I don’t have recipes, might be time to correct that.