The best time to visit Crete is from mid-May to June or from September to October. May brings with it warmer waters and beautiful wildflowers that can be spotted throughout the island's natural ...

Don't expect any Caesar salads here — Cretan cuisine bears very little resemblance to Olive Garden. In fact, food on Crete often doesn't even resemble food on mainland Greece. Feta, a Greek staple ...

Hiking the Samaria gorge is an amazing experience to have during travels to Crete. Credit: Lapplaender/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 de Jaw-dropping Samaria Gorge on Crete is extremely popular with ...

In the town of Chania, ancient Greek, Byzantine, Venetian, and Ottoman buildings coexist in the landscape of the city. As far as Muslim architecture is concerned, one of the most emblematic corners of ...

Days on Crete unfold like a film reel: a morning swim in a secluded cove, an afternoon tasting local vintages and hiking through olive groves, and twilight dinners of fresh seafood paired with ...

If your interests are basking in the sun, enjoying life by the sea, exploring ancient ruins, and indulging in the original Mediterranean diet, look no further than Crete. The biggest island in Greece ...

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that was based on the island of Crete, in the Aegean Sea. This civilization flourished from around 3000 BC to around 1100 BC. The Minoan ...

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In death as in life, Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, etc, etc, marches epically on. Paddy (as he is known to nearly one and all) left us three years ago, but since then he has been commemorated ...