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Five Crete Stays Where You Can Still Manage the Perfect Vacation

2020-10-12 by Phil Butler

Aravanes and Amari

Crete is still one of the safest destinations for those wanting to travel. Here are five perfect choices for a restful vacation.

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5 More Amazing Crete Gorges Nature Lovers Must Trek

2019-12-16 by Phil Butler

Richtis Waterfall

Crete is an unbelievable landscape cut by canyons and gorges for millions of years. The topography of the island is unique in that these rifts in the bedrock of the island form create hundreds of individual pockets of natural bounty. The island is even called the “land of gorges” since more than 400 canyons carve […]

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Heraklion Declares War on Potholes Again

2025-11-14 By Iorgos Pappas

Heraklion commits 854,000 euros to pothole repairs and road safety upgrades, promising faster interventions and safer streets—if the plan finally works.

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Crete’s Olive Oil Season Begins With a Question Nobody Wants to Answer: How Low Can It Go?

2025-11-14 By Mihaela Lica Butler

Crete braces for one of its weakest olive oil seasons as drought, pests, high costs, and poor infrastructure drive production and prices into decline.

Yellow Line Agios Nikolaos

Agios Nikolaos Restores the Yellow Line as Red and Green Routes Pause

2025-11-14 By Arthur Butler

Agios Nikolaos reinstates the Yellow Line from 17 November 2025 while the Red and Green Lines pause.

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The Mediterranean’s Last Quiet Bay

2025-11-14 By Iorgos Pappas

Across the Mediterranean, small family bays — once the heart of coastal life — are disappearing at a rate that would shock anyone paying attention. Development plans, marina expansions, luxury berths, and “blue investment initiatives” have turned once unique and unspoiled coves into concrete grids. But on Crete’s south coast, a tiny, unnamed bay has […]

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How to Park in Heraklion Like a Boss

2025-11-14 By Mihaela Lica Butler

Parking in Heraklion is not driving. It is anthropology. It doesn’t submit to normal rules you learned in driving school. Tourists arrive in Heraklion imagining parking will work like in the rest of Europe. It does not. Heraklion has its own ecosystem — part tradition, part improvisation, part ancient Cretan instinct for chaos. If you […]

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