Cretanvista Site News & News Reviews - September 2006 Issue 43 |
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SEPTEMBER
WEATHER ... _____________________________ Cretan
Lightening
© This recent storm over the Rodopos and Gramvousa peninsulas lasted for several Hours. Click to Enlarge.
Astratigos
Village Life...
Dressed
like some sort of early space explorer, including gas mask, he proceeded
to brush the road into the village, the square, and the road out of the village - creating
huge dust storms which then settled so that he could brush them up again! Really.
It was just about then that our fridge failed (no connection - other than an
about to happen co-incidence).
'How old is she'? I queried politely. 'Sixty nine', he replied, locking eyes and daring me to laugh! 'Sixty-nine'...
Stepping
mentally sideways, I said 'I am a 27 years old 63 myself'... The gaze
remained.. Maybe, I thought uncomfortably, either number, probably the latter,
could be my shoe size.. 'Ah - 90' said Yiorgos, face creasing into a
grin. 'A good man'... 'This is a good shop.. good.. your fridge will last'...
And with that he departed home. |
In the News .... Unhappy Tourists.. And an unscheduled stop by airliner... |
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FREE... TWO HOLIDAY VILLAS... www.provencebeyond.com Well worth a visit if you are interested in France, especially the southern parts. |
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FERRY SERVICES. |
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Moving to Crete - Practical Advice.. An e-mail copy is available as a Microsoft word file - a very fast email of very useful information. |
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Earthquake activity A small amount of activity to report this month: 30 Aug: 4.0 Richter Scale, 13.00pm. Patras. Epicentre around the Antirio area. Link to Story. 06 Sept: 4.2 Richter Scale, 12.47pm. Epicentre Agrinion, approx 276 Km NW of Athens. Link to Story. 10 Sept: 4.5 Richter
Scale, 07.40 am. Epicentre undersea north of Kiato in the Gulf of Corinth. |
Photo Galleries
Wild Flowers: 192 different wild flowers. 99% of
photos have
been taken right here at the base of the Rodopos peninsula. We are continually
working on these galleries and will, as soon as practicable, be adding further
online pages, including
detailed reference pages and more photos of each specimen. There are now more
than 4,000+ flower photographs in our databases. Right now it is all work and
no new pages on-line. Apologies. Miniature Chapels of Crete.
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E-Mail Requests.. The
Cretan Vista Calendar Photos - Birds. (Please email us
before sending pictures). |
Best Books..
We will be updating the appearance of this section fairly soon - particularly
the Icons
leading directly to the bookshelves (maybe prettier than the ones above!) and perhaps the current new
book review box.
The 'Bookshelf' links (yellow) above contain all books. Coming shortly: Western Crete: 45 walks in Kissamos and Selinos, by Alan Hall. The Rough Guide to Crete Battle of Crete by George Forty The Island by Victoria Hislop (you'll enjoy this one; it's streets ahead of the usual 'holiday read') ....and anything else that Wilf has happened upon in the UK and thinks will be of interest!
"And it's goodbye from him..." |