Homecoming on Crete

The last Friday of July, fabulous weather, Methexis beach reasonably well populated, given the reduced number of visitors to town this year. Breaking beach etiquette of slightly more reserved behaviour were 4 giggling women, many years away from any educational […]

Stopped in my tracks one afternoon when the sky was That Special Blue. Ordinarily, after mid-June temperatures have risen and day time skies are paler but it was cool-ish for a while….. besides, by then I have little time to […]

When life gives us lemons…get the gin out! That’s how the saying goes is it not?   I could get quite down in the dumps some days when I go up the spiral staircase to my terrace garden. Bad enough […]

The end of May, and final flecks of snow are slowly slipping away. Not as fast as earlier in the month, when the unusual heatwave hit and sweat dripped unladylike from the tip of my nose. That would be the […]

May already? April seemed to drag at the time and now it’s behind us, as are our days of full lockdown.Beginning 4th May, there’s an easing of restrictions with a few stages of the overall process, meaning that the café […]

You know that way you suddenly see red?… figuratively speaking. Something sets you off….. you see red and feel mad….well, it was yellow I saw, felt just little crazy…. I made it for a March drive over to Hania on […]

March, and Mother Nature’s wand moves fast. She’s not sleeping much, if at all, with all that must be accomplished. I could write a different story every day about the changing landscape but I’m not making the regular trips to […]

*right here I ought to have a pic of a tree but it’s not recommended to take photos when I’m driving……. Heading through Plemeniana 2 geese waddled towards me, down my side of the road, but they graciously allowed me […]

Over the last week we’ve had around 100 recorded earthquakes, many of them too strong to not notice……… Now the shudders and deep rumbles of the ‘quakes are being replaced by dramatic thunder and lightning storms. Yesterday, in a bright […]

Cannot confirm that as factual but in my 20 years here I don’t recall such rainfall and the accompanying damage – broken roads, landslips, fallen trees and rocks as well as very damp homes.