Santorini

After a thousand entries from the trips "around the world", it would seem that the experience gained in this field should help in overcoming difficulties both in choosing a topic, deciding what to exclude (!) from the entry and in finding a way to describe what is most interesting and most important...

Agios Nikolaos - the Cretan Międzyzdroje?

Agios Nikolaos, or Santa Claus - on the eastern coast of Crete is the local Saint Tropez. From here, we sailed to Spinalunga, and in the afternoon we breathed in the atmosphere of the resort. The photos explain the beauty of the place and the tourist ad says: “Surrounded by water on three sides, A...

The Myths. Part four

Is this myth for the youth? Generally, is Mythology for the youth?  Let's take a look at the biography of one of the heroes: We know that the greatest hero of them all was Harakles (Latin Hercules). Maybe that's true. We have been hearing from what an example and  symbol of strength and bravery he ...

Spinalonga - the island of the rejected

A day trip to the island, which is mentioned below, caused us emotions caused by the history of this place, and above all, by the cruel fate of leprosy patients, who were nowhere treated as people. Sent to Spinalonga, they were never to return.   After the invention of the cure for leprosy, some p...

ALL INCLUSIVE

As announced, the weather broke down. Admittedly, like many things in Greece, the breakdown came a bit later than the forecast, but it changed our tourist plans quite effectively, anyway. The all-day trip (cruise to Santorini) got canceled and moved to a later date, because the storm at sea made it...

Jubilees, jubilees...

A letter to all our faithful Readers: We have just posted our thousandth (1,000) entry. None of them would make sense if they did not end up in your laptops, tablets, computers or smartphones (smarfones, says the president of PiS). It is for you that we share what we watch, admire, criticize or e...

The Myths - part 3

Today, part three of the Myths; a very serious part: about the fruits of unhealthy love! “Minotaur (usually depicted as a man with a bull's head, but sometimes in the form of a creature with a human head and torso, and with a bull's body from the waist down. He was born from the union of Pasifae, ...

Heraklion - the capital of Crete

“Heraklion, also Iraklion (Greek: IIraklio) - the largest city and administrative capital of Crete and the capital of the Heraklion regional unit. The fifth largest city in Greece with 200,000 inhabitants. Heraklion was the fastest growing tourist destination in Europe in 2017. According to the ran...