It’s any port in a storm when Zeus, the god of thunder who was born in a Cretan cave and is entombed in a mountain on this sprawling Mediterranean island, unleashes a couple days of striking lightning, cracking thunder and driving rain. The king of gods was obviously irritated about something
Update: The taverna Christiana that displayed Walter Lassally’s Oscar for “Zorba the Greek” burned down in January 2012 and the Oscar was destroyed. “I look upon it as the end of an epoch,” Walter wrote. “The Oscar had a good life, there are thousands of photos of it with me
The Idiot was asked by local officials to photograph and judge this weekend’s 60-kilometer long Easter parade between Skepasti and Georgioupolis in northwestern Crete. Municipal authorities insisted “your unbiased eye and independent voice are required to maintain the credibility of our highly regarded Easter pageant.” Here are the winners and losers in
Even The Idiot learns something new each time he visits Knossos, which Homer called “the chief city of King Minos, whom great Zeus took into his confidence every nine years.” Today, after calmly strolling up the weathered cobblestones of the Royal Road, I picked up all sorts of delicious tidbits while I
Why did I decide to kick off my MedTrek around Crete by heading counterclockwise through the birthplace of El Greco towards a seaside village romantically called Bali rather than go the other way? Not only because I like the other Bali and the works of El Greco. But because I’ll also continue
I’m spending twenty-four hours in Athens before I ferry to Heraklion and begin my month-long MedTrek around Crete, Greece’s largest island. Naturally it’s always a pleasure, especially after viewing Greek antiquities in the well-presented and well-preserved but synthetic environment of the British Museum, to see Greece in Greece. Despite a rainy dawn,
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