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Travel Magazine

Stories from Crete

Life in the mountain villages

Olive oil, raki and slow food

Snorkeling and the sea

Short dispatches from daily life

Villages · Long Read

The Last Chestnut Farmers of Elos

Deep in the Kissamos mountains, where plane trees shade a single stone square and time moves differently.

By Maria Stavrakakis · 8 min read

Why Cretan Olive Oil Is Different From Every Other

Kostas Manouras · 6 min read

Snorkeling the Sea Caves of Akrotiri

Dr. Elena Fasoulaki · 7 min read

The Morning the Harbour Looked Like a Painting

Nikos Papakonstantinou · 4 min read

More Stories

Villages · Walk

The First Hour in Samaria Gorge

Thanos Kritikos · 5 min read

Raki Night in the White Mountains

Petros Alevizakis · 6 min read

Loutro: The Village With No Roads

Eleni Karamanoli · 5 min read

Graviera: The Cheese That Tastes Like This Landscape

Sophia Manioudaki · 5 min read