When in Crete

Friday, June 3rd, 2011
 
Where the river meets the sea Photo:Catherine Mack

People from Crete consider themselves to be one big family. Just as I, as an Irish person,  can’t confuse the origins of someone abroad whose name has the prefix ‘O’, Cretans can spot a fellow islander anywhere thanks to the majority of their names ending with the suffix ‘akis’. Most locals say that it originates [...]

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My Cretan Odyssey

Friday, November 6th, 2009
 

“The water isn’t salty Mum”, my five year old son shouts joyfully as we swim back to the deserted white soft sands of Kiani Akti, He is right because the water which flows into this section of Souda Bay, on the North West corner of Crete, is from one of the mountain rivers, which gathers [...]

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