Tales from Crete

Even if the world can breathe a sigh of relief right now (so far), I'm afraid we shouldn't feel completely safe. The US economic stranglehold on Iran has tightened and is tightening further after the missile attack on two US...

Look closely at the picture for this story. It is the road that leads to the Omalos Plateau at the entrance to the Samaria Gorge and yes, there is snow covering the area. The last time I was there, in...

Welcome to a brand new year…. In some strange way, I always think it's a little sad to say goodbye to an old and used year on New Year's Eve, only to start a brand new and unused year a...

Several months ago, Maria (the middle of the 3 daughters I have) started posting her and her children's Christmas wishes on our small closed family group on Facebook. She is always the first and Victor (the youngest of my children)...

Fathers like to say to their children: "Look, when I was a child..." and then there is another story that it was so-and-so good or, as at this time of year, there was so-and-so much snow. For some reason, we...

Today I want you to have a little Christmas adventure. Once upon a time there was a goose, a pig and an angel who were all tired of being the way they were. The goose thought it was cold and...

It has become Thursday evening and I have sat down at the computer to write my story for tomorrow. It happens once in a while that I don't get it written so that it can be on the page this...

How about a Zorba for Christmas lunch? Before long, the biggest Christmas lunch day of the year will kick off, and all over the country companies and companies, private as well as public, gather their staff for the annual Christmas...

There is basically nothing particularly Greek or Cretan about my story today, but still a little. Because right now, as I'm writing it, it's a pleasant break from everyday life, which over the last few weeks has been about planning,...