November in Crete is olive picking season. With over 20 million olive trees cultivated the length and breadth of the island, that’s a lot of picking. Traditionally, back in the day, most would be picked by hand with the fruit*
Most days in Crete the sun shines. Those days people hang out around the pool or go down to the beach – we’re famous for our beaches. Very occasionally the sun doesn’t shine, it gets a bit cloudy and might
It doesn’t take much to get a harvest festival going in Crete. Like most Mediterranean people we’re always happy to celebrate the grape harvest over a glass or two of wine. We’re equally delighted to raise a tumbler of ouzo
Sadly most people still equate Greek wine with Retsina – although to be fair, there’s nothing wrong with a good bottle of frosty Retsina with a plate of fried calamari in a waterfront taverna, but the resin flavoured gold liquid
IT RAINED THIS WEEK! Which in itself is amazing and perhaps a sign of climate change, rain doesn’t normally come this early. What’s more it was rain of biblical proportions – at one stage Adonis thought he might have to
SINGLES SPRING AND AUTUMN WALKING HOLIDAY IN CRETE We run two walking weeks every year from the Mistral Hotel – the first in spring, the other in autumn, both stunning times of year when the weather is fresh and not
