The Idiot was particularly careful, while MedTrekking through the notorious Gorge of Death near Zakros in eastern Crete, to conscientiously check out every cave, cranny, crevice and shadow.
This was not because he had suddenly developed an interest in bats, bones and/or dead body parts (the gorge got its name because the Read more
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.
A gravelly, pebbly, rocky and stony beach.
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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” Read more
“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 Read more
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 Read more
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