Monthly Archives: May 2011

Monthly Archives: May 2011

The View From Zeus’ Crib

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Idiotic Musings, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 6 Comments

I walked 8,089 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea to reach the birthplace of Zeus in Crete, Greece’s largest island where the king of all gods is also entombed under a mountain that pointedly reveals his profile. This wasn’t my first or last encounter with the lord of storm and lightning. We met

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Pols, Hippies, Nudists & Phaistos

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 2 Comments

“For some reason I recall New York Mayor John Lindsay telling a television interviewer back in the 1960s that he was thinking of giving up politics to join some hippies living in the caves in Crete. That seemed like such a revolutionary idea for a politician that it’s always stuck with

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Gorge-ous Crete

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Joel in Follow The Idiot, Greece, Mediterranean Pix, MedTrekking, Where is the idiot | 7 Comments

Want some comparatively easy MedTrekking amid the usually savage landscape and rocky Mediterranean seaside in southwestern Crete? Then hike down the Samaria Gorge, the local equivalent of the Grand Canyon and one of the most-visited tourist sites on Greece’s largest island, and then follow the blazed E4 hiking trail that runs north

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