MISTRAL FLOWER SHOW – WHO NEEDS CHELSEA?
At time of writing it’s Chelsea Flower Show week – one of the hardest events to get a ticket for in the UK Summer Season. And, let’s be honest, unless you go on preview day when His and Her Madge turn up it’s a complete bunfight. Worse still the prosecco and Pimms are eye-wateringly expensive, and you can’t find a place to sit down and park your potted plant for love nor debit card.
But who needs Chelsea when you can come on Walking Week at the Mistral and see the floribundance of delights that line the hillsides and byways of Western Crete. What’s more they’re not in a man-made garden or a tented Marquee but in their natural habitat. Anyway, as they say, a ‘picture is worth 1,000 words’ and the images on the page are courtesy of those who walked with us last week, so we’ll let them tell the tale.
*images courtesy to Ann, Jane, Madeleine, Mary, Mike, Roger, Ron, Sue
Our walkers were also very much in their natural habitat of mountain crags, gorges, river valleys and rocky coastlines. Not to mention their other home-from-home sitting in a shady taverna with a glass of something chilling and thrilling whilst tucking-in to a local delicacy or three!