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  • ViaggiatoreCrete 2024, Greece

    Moíres

    16 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    With over 6,000 inhabitants, Moíres or Mires is the largest town in the fertile Messara Plain and the administrative center of the municipality of Festos. Yes, that's right, Festos, the one with the archaeological site of Phaistos.

    There is a farmers market in Mires on Saturdays and you can find everything there. So off we went to Mires and packed the car full of goodies.

    I actually wanted to eat Loukoumades, but my favorite Loukoumades café was closed. So we stopped by our favorite butcher, who grills in the square in front together with the tavern next door.

    That's a great activity for a Saturday, although I'm always happy to be able to leave the hustle and bustle behind me at some point and drive back down the winding roads to my sleepy little coastal village. 😍

    So here I am back again, the fridge is full and for sure I went swimming at my private beach 🏊.    Leggi altro

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    Messara Plain & Asterousia Mountains

    17 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Today the weather was mixed, so we went on a tour through the Messara Plain and the Asterousia Mountains. The tour was about 100km long and breathtaking.

    The Messara Plain (Greek Πεδιάδα Μεσαράς) is a lowland in the south of the island. It is located mainly 45 kilometers south of the city of Heraklion and the largest towns are Mires and Tymbaki.

    In the northwest lies the Ida Mountains, which rise to a height of 2456 meters. In the south the plain is separated from the southern Mediterranean by the Asterousia Mountains, which are up to 1231 meters high. In the west the plain borders the Mediterranean.

    The plain is almost 50 kilometers long, up to eight kilometers wide and has an area of ​​over 150 km². It slopes down from a height of 250 meters in the east to the Mediterranean in the west.

    The Geropotamos River flows through the fertile plain, supplying water for numerous cultivated areas, making intensive agriculture possible in this rain-poor area.

    The region's main source of income is olive cultivation. The trees are irrigated by local wells. Vegetables and other crops are grown on the plain at the edge of the river (often in greenhouses or on artificially irrigated areas). The edges of the plain are quite densely populated compared to other drier regions of Crete.

    The historical archaeological sites of Gortyn and Phaistos are also located here.

    We set off on a whim, sipped a coffee here and there or ate a pastry, watched animals, found strange windmills and visited small villages.

    We were back home safe and sound by sunset, full of new impressions. I'll write more about the various things we found and encountered along the way later.

    What a wonderful day 😍.    Leggi altro

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    Goat accident

    18 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    I don't know if you knew, but I grew up in Black Forest on the edge of the forest with goats.

    I went into the mountain with my goats almost every day, although there were only two of them. So I observed goats pretty often and well.

    Today I witnessed a goat fall from the cliffs on the beach - but check out the footage yourself. I have never seen anything like that before and luckily it was only a few meters high. Nothing happened to the goat and it happily hopped on.

    Lucky for the goat, otherwise the vultures would have been lucky.    Leggi altro

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    Lendas

    19 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Lendas is a town with around 80 inhabitants on the south coast of Crete, west of Tris Ekklisies. The (folk) etymology derives the name from the ancient Greek word for lion, because the shape of this animal can be seen in the headland offshore.

    In the 1980s, Lendas was a popular destination for backpackers, who stayed as tolerated wild campers primarily in the bay west of the town. Today the town of Dytiko stands on the same spot. I'm sure some of them are still around and I don't want to meet them 🤪.

    We drove past Lendas on our Messara tour. Rainer had wintered there a few years ago and I wanted to see if it would be suitable for me to winter there too.

    In short: intended for others, not for me 🤣. Too many tavernas (at least 5), too many tourists (at least 5), too many greenhouses and too easy to get to to be original. So please other tourists: go there!

    The stretch of coast is beautiful though. 🤩    Leggi altro

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    καλό ταξίδι!

    20 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    This is a mountain spring and now I'll tell you the story of how we came here.

    Unce upon a time there was a girl named Gina and Tongsong was the name of her favourite tea 🍵. It is a second flush Darjeeling and, like all Darjeeling, comes from West Bengal.

    When her Tongsong ran out, she told Rainer to bring some. Soon after, the delivery of tea arrived with Rainer. 😍

    But the tea didn't taste like Tongsong at all, more like a Ceylon, so a world of difference. Had he brought the wrong tea? Rainer, the tea connoisseur? Unlikely. It had to be the water 💦.

    You can drink the tap water here in Crete, but it's not necessarily great if you can tell the difference in the taste of the water. However, there is a water filter system with osmosis and activated carbon in the apartment and that is exactly the water she used to make tea. And with this water the tea tasted like Ceylon 🙁.

    That's why Rainer asked Matthes about the mountain spring he knows, Matthes has also spent the winter here a few times.

    So Rainer & Gina drove quite some kilometers to the mountain spring and filled up all the bottles they had. Lo and behold! Finally the tea tasted just like Tongsong should taste ❤️.

    And if they didn't die, they still drink Tongsong tea with mountain spring water.    Leggi altro

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    Microclimate, Ambas Gorge, Aba Waterfall

    21 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Here in Tris Ekklisies there is a pronounced microclimate. The sun burns on the steep mountains and warms them up, the wind usually comes from the sea. There are hardly any clouds here, the sun almost always shines, even if the weather in the next village inland is cloudy.

    The warm and humid sea air here has no time to condensate and form clouds, it is immediately pushed up the steep mountain into the Ambras Gorge.

    There it pushes up the cliffs and forms clouds at the top of the mountain that continue into the Asterousia-Mountains, mountain villages and the Messara plain. There aren't many, they're freaking out, but there it has some and none in Tris Ekklisies. 🤩 In addition, it has a few degrees more, due to the mountains warmed up by the sun.

    We went there to watch the spectacle. You can see the imposing gorge and Tris Ekklisies from above.

    The Ambas Gorge begins at a small plateau near the village of Paranymfi (710 m altitude) and ends at the beach of Tris Ekklisies. It is a 4 km long and beautiful gorge with many narrow passages accessible only by experienced hikers. You have to overcome more than 20 vertical places with rope, the largest of which is 45m. You can visit the simpler part of the gorge from Tris Ekklisies.

    The main feature of the gorge is the Aba waterfall with a height of 145m. He is rarely seen, only if it has rained a lot beforehand. He is one of the 10 largest waterfalls in Greece and falls down several stages.

    But see yourself how the clouds build up and the last handles of the hiking path, for the waterfall there wasn’t enough rain yet.    Leggi altro

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    Loukaniko and Myzithra

    22 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Yesterday we went shopping in the mountain village and of course we drove past the bakery.

    Already on the stairs the old Greeks waved to me with their weather-beaten faces: "γειά σας" (Jassas). Inside the baker huged me to greet me and the saleswoman grined so that I could see her gap in her teeth.

    Of course the first thing she did was giving us two biscuits and we sat down in front of the shop with a coffee and spinach and feta cheese pieces. We also bought bread of course and with a wink she put a sesame ring in my bag.

    Now we sat outside, an old Greek sat down next to us and we chatted, when the baker came out.

    He waved to his friend, who was there in his car and opened the rear double doors. I could see a scale.

    The baker was buying about a meter of sausage. He waved to me. "You have to eat this," he said and presseed two cups into my hand - rice pudding with cinnamon, I know that from here already.

    But the sausage? I was very curious and he recognized that and grinned. And wasn't that this super delicious greek cream cheese? I love it! He gave me a piece of sausage to taste. What a unique taste!

    Without further ado, we bought a kilo of Myzithra (cream cheese) and over half a meter of Loukaniko (greek sour farmer's sausage).

    We had to eat the rice pudding straight away, the baker made sure of that and brought out two spoons outside.

    The spinach and feta cheese pieces didn't fit in our stomachs anymore, so we took them with us.

    The part of the sausage that hadn't gradually „disappeared“ over time 🤣 was eaten this evening with fava and capers. Luckily Rainer brought his pan!

    Incredibly delicious! 😋😛 Loukaniko!!! ❤️    Leggi altro

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    Horizontal windmill

    23 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    The Asterousia Mountains never let me go, I find them beautiful and we keep going on short and long tours through the mountains.

    On one tour we discovered a horizontal windmill by chance near the town of Miamou, I've never seen anything like it before.

    Nine halved iron petrol barrels serve as wind catchers for a wind turbine.

    The low, round building has only two floors. The basement is built into the rock. The flat roof protruding over the rock forms a platform. A kind of iron "carousel" is attached to it on a standing shaft. However, this wind turbine does not have sails like the normal vertical Mediterranean windmills. Instead, nine halved iron barrels (petrol barrels) are attached to it as wind catchers.

    In the basement, the mill is not circular on the inside because the rock protrudes into it and measures around 5.5 x 4 m. It houses a grinding gear. It is not driven directly from above, as the hopper and the hull would get in the way, but via a gear drive from below. The grinding gear can be engaged and disengaged via a pinion on the mill iron.

    There has been a windmill in the town of Miamou for around 200 years, always of the horizontal mill design. The existing mill was built in 1920.

    It was used until 1972. Then it was no longer profitable to operate because all the flour from the large mills could be bought more cheaply in stores.

    The mill is still functional. Apparently there used to be around 5 other mills of this type in the Lassithi district near Agios Nikolaos.

    Very unique this windmill 🤩😍❤️.    Leggi altro

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    Dikti Mountains tour

    24 novembre 2024, Grecia ⋅ 🌬 9 °C

    In Crete you can spend a lot of time in the mountains, this time we took a tour of the Dikti Mountains.

    If you pass the mountains from the south it's hard to find the way und sometimes you have to drive through the front yard of houses and drive through villages where you hardly fit between the houses. All in all a great adventure!

    The mountain range lies in the southeast of the island in the regional units of Iraklio and Lasithi between the towns of Iraklio and Agios Nikolaos.

    The mountain range, including Mount Dikti, reaches a height of up to 2148 metres, making it the third highest mountain range in Crete. It is about 30 kilometres long and up to 14 kilometres wide. And it’s cold and windy up there 🥶🌬️.

    In modern times up until the 19th century, the mountains were called Lasithi and the ridges of the Dikti Mountains enclose the Lasithi Plateau, the largest plateau in Crete in terms of area.

    The higher elevations of the mountains are almost devoid of vegetation and practically uninhabited. On the lower slopes and on the plateau there are small settlements and villages in which the few inhabitants live mainly from livestock farming.

    It took us 5,5 hours for only 130km and it was totally worth it! ❤️    Leggi altro

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