Living on Crete. When we arrived on Lefkada in November 2018 we had many conversations about living in Greece. How strange that 18 months later we effectively live on Crete, but not by choice. While it’s not by choice we have no objections. Climbing back onto my bike. I bought my Orange P7 at least […]
Author: Kelvin Collins
A week without miles. Crete.
Minty convinced me to post a blog today and send some sunshine, and a semblance of normality, out to the world. Ierapetra. On Friday 13th as the grip of the virus tightened around Greece we arrived at Camping-Koutsounari a few kms outside of the fruit growing town of Ierapetra. Ierapetra looks rough, dirty, functional. Unusually for Crete there’s […]
Travelling through a changing Crete.
Amari Dam. The excuses have run out, it’s time to leave our Kalyves base. But let’s not get too adventurous eh? After 40 miles of gentle meandering through the hills we parked on the water’s edge at Amari reservoir. Ahead the highest mountain on the island, Mount Ida or Psilortis, towers at 2456m. It still […]
A new favourite. Vamos.
Vamos. The idea of restoring a house is anathema to most Greeks. Why do all that work? You could just let it fall down while you half build a new concrete framed monster in the garden that never gets finished. Yet high up a hill above our adopted home of Kalyves there’s the village of […]
Carnival. Preparation. And cancellation.
The first time we arrived in Chania it was market day. No one had told the lady at Google so she delivered us right into the thick of it. Big van. Big crowds. Bad mix. That was hard, but at least we knew when market day fell. Stopping off in Chania again we had two […]
The occasional road block. Crete.
Seeing more of less. There are times when we move on every day. Sometimes that’s the right thing to do. But after a while it wears you down. This month we’re doing the complete opposite. We’ve done ten nights in just three spots, and all within a 20 mile radius. And it has been wonderful. […]