The Idiot didn’t come to Crete looking for sandy beaches. That was wise because Greece’s largest island features many more bouldery, cliffy, gravelly, mountainy, rocky, pebbly and stony (you get the idea) patches of seaside than strips of fine sand. [caption id=”attachment_2340″ align=”aligncenter”
The Idiot was recently told by the usually trustworthy goddess Athena that her father Zeus was definitely born in the remote and uncommercialized Idaian cave above the Nida plateau on Mount Ida in Crete (http://bit.ly/j9DYOo). But there’s academic, archeological and popular contention that the “king of all gods, men and the world”
“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
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