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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Over the ridge. Last week we left you in a car park on the north coast, not far from Kissamos. We had had to backtrack there after closed roads defeated our trek down the west coast. Once the blog had been published we set off to try again, on a bigger road. In case there […]

 We’ve finally achieved slow. It’s something we’ve tried to do for years. Now on Crete our mileage has dropped and we’re seeing lots more of what’s immediately around us. Fewer miles driven. More time to enjoy. Chania. We have only seen a fraction so far, but I understand that there’s just one town on Crete […]