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By John Freedman Posted to Contemplating Crete November 19, 2021 I took it as a good sign when I went out with my camera early last...

Pachia Ammos is a divine stretch of beach just around the rocky bend from the famed beach at Stavros bay (for the uninitiated, the...

By John Freedman Posted on Contemplating Crete August 20, 2021 The day we visited the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) Monastery it was...

By John Freedman Posted on Contemplating Crete August 2, 2021 I have written previously in this space about the Sabbionara, or Mocenigo...

May 19, 2021 By John Freedman Stavros (pronounced stav-ROS) is a little village on the northwest end of the Akrotiri peninsula about a...

May 17, 2021 John Freedman Paradise in the midst of civilization. That is - or, if I may - such are the beaches at Agioi Apostoloi. One...

By John Freedman April 24, 2021 Nothing spectacular today, but plenty that is wonderful. Chania is preparing to reopen to the world. You...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere October 31, 2020 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 13, 2021 I don’t know how much the...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere August 18, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 13, 2021 Almyrida is a picturesque...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere January 6, 2020 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 13, 2021 Chances are you will rarely...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere January 5, 2020 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 12, 2021 This is the second of a...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere January 4, 2020 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 12, 2021 As the unseasonably late...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere September 5, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 12, 2021 The whole topic of the...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere July 4, 2019 Posted anew on Contemplating Crete. Oh, boy. Sougia! Another small Cretan...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere June 25, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 11, 2021 A few people will hate me for...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere June 23, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 11, 2021 Today the Crete beach watch...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere July 28, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 11, 2021 Crete has made me wish I had...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere June 17, 2019 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 11, 2021 One year ago this marvelous old...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere June 23, 2020 Reposted April 11, 2021 It is said we will never see the remains of what might...

By John Freedman Originally posted elsewhere May 17, 2020 Reposted on Contemplating Crete April 11, 2021 I know where we were yesterday,...