Tales from Crete

Today I sat and had lunch with my very good long-time friend Pantelis. The last time I was down here (a good week ago) he invited me to lunch, and it was now time to eat it. We had found...

Right here at the beginning of the month of September, the big Sardine Festival in Chania starts. It is an annual recurring event where you celebrate the small, tasty fish that make up a large part of both the Cretan...

On such an ordinary Friday, just before the weekend with a few days off for most people, you can sit and think a little about life's little quirks. Every once in a while, something suddenly appears out of the blue...

On August 15, St. Mary's Day throughout Greece. It is one of the great feast days in the Greek Orthodox Church, where it is celebrated that the Virgin Mary's body did not undergo the physical decay that befalls everyone at...

And now to something completely different… I can't remember who it was who always said that, but I remember that there was a TV program (probably from the time when there was only DR1) where the host always said that....

In a little while - specifically Saturday tomorrow, August 3rd, old Halle will be going on holiday here with Mrs Halle, and if there are any who should be in doubt, I can reveal that this year the trip will...

When I write these posts on my blog week after week, I often think about whose sake I actually sit and write. I know I have so many stories and experiences, but how interesting they really are. I mean, for...

At the beginning of July, you could see a post on several Facebook pages that called for people to keep an eye out for a missing female American molecular biologist who was last seen on a run in western Crete....

All of us who love Greece, be it the mainland or one of the many wonderful islands, and return again and again and again and again eat in the same places, live in the same place or area, know it...