“Follow The Idiot” readers have asked me a number of questions since I’ve been in Crete that merit short, crisp answers with a sentence, a photo and a caption. Here are Idiotic responses to the first ten: 1. How do you interact with normal tourists? I took a photograph of a contemporary French hippie
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
“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
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
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
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