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A Big 2020 Tourism Fix: Stopping the Infodemic With Transparency

2020-02-16 by Phil Butler

In the midst of what’s become a first-ever, “Infodemic” shouldn’t our leaders be educating travelers about the real dangers of 2019-nCoV?

People Don’t Just Visit Crete – They Return

2026-05-11 By Phil Butler

For many people, the first visit to Crete becomes the beginning of a long relationship rather than a single journey. Something about the island lingers after departure — the mountain light, the unhurried conversations, the sense that life here still follows older and more human rhythms. Long after the suitcase is unpacked, Crete continues quietly […]

What Crete Gets Right That the Modern World Forgot

2026-05-11 By Phil Butler

Crete, the Island where time still breathes. The old man in the kafeneio had been stirring the same coffee for nearly ten minutes when I realized nobody in the room considered this unusual. Outside, a rusty pickup sat crooked beneath a plane tree in the village square while two dogs slept in a patch of […]

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