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Crete Adventures: Traversing Kallikratis Hell

2018-02-24 by Phil Butler

Kallikratis road

With its asphalt barely solidified under the blistering Cretan sun of a dozen years, the road in between Kapsodasos and Kalikratis villages in southwestern Crete is nothing less than worldwide notorious.

Tags: Chora Sfakion, crete, Crete adventures, cycling Crete, Frangokasteilo, Kalikratis, Kallikratis Hell, Kapsodasos, Sfakia, Visit Crete

Legend of the Drosoulites: Crete’s Magnificent 600

2018-02-21 by Phil Butler

Chora Sfakia

Coming up at the end of May visitors to Crete will have the chance to witness first hand the mysticism that makes this island in the Aegean so special. Each year at this time the ghosts of the brave Drosoulites (“dew shadows”) appear on the beach as shadowy figures of treading the early morning dew.

Tags: crete, Crete legends, Drosoulites, Flisvos Hotel, Frangokastelo Fortress, Hatzimichalis Dalianis, Hotel Orthi Ammos, mysterious Crete, Sfakia

Crete Daydreams – The Village of Loutro

2018-01-23 by Phil Butler

Crete holds so many secrets safe-and-sound still. Our journeys here began in 2014 on an extended vacation visit. And as a friend who’s a Cretan once told me, “During my lifetime here I’ve searched something new each week, and I’ve still not discovered it all.” After having lived here some months I am convinced too, that […]

Tags: Chania, Chania Prefecture, Cretan holidays, crete, Daskalogiannis Hotel, Hotel Porto Loutro, Libyan Sea, Loutro, Marmara, Notos Restaurant & Rooms, Phoenix (Finikas), Sfakia, Sifis Hotel, South Crete, Timios Satvros, Villa Nikki

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