Cretanvista Site & Local News - APRIL 1st 2003 Issue 4
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MARCH WEATHER...
For the most part has remained far from being anything like enjoyable. The few fine days that there were interspaced with rain and storms - though not as many as in February - were of far superior quality. Snowstorms on Monday 24th March seemed to cap it all...
Winter Astratigos Copyright - Cretanvista.gr
This picture has to be a classic - we first came here in 1988 and have never before seen snow in Astratigos!
Countryside Page Expansion...
In spite of the weather the countryside is awakening rapidly now. Wild flowers a couple of days ago were in abundance and our first countryside page update for some time is only a week or so away now. We have been out and about on the few fine days with our cameras, and since the weather, in spite of the present hopefully short lull, seems to know it is almost spring now we are looking forward to some decent
additions to the page.
The picture strip below shows just one or two of our countryside sightings between the middle of January and the last day of February - the latter being a superbly bright sunshine day - at least in the Kolimbari area and up here in the Rodopos mountain villages.
Delayed...Now Late April...BUT...
Our next new page and gallery gathers olives and makes oil with the Kolimbari Co-op.. Please don't despair - this promised page has simply turned out bigger and better than anticipated. With a myriad of photographs taken from the time the olive trees blossomed last year, through gathering in the groves to the first pressing of the world famous Kolimbari oil; to the canning and packing of the oil
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were right there with our cameras! We broke off developing the page briefly because of sudden unexpected opportunities.
Unexpected Opportunities....
We interrupted work on the project because we got the unexpected chance to produce a new photo gallery on Cretan Countryside. This is almost complete. A few days more. We also had to get out on the only fine days to photograph our spring wild flowers - another gallery almost complete. And..
AND..
The sudden opportunity to make an early trip to the site of Dyktinna - at the tip of the Rodopos peninsula by Landrover Freelander was too good to miss. The first effort was aborted about 15Km out from Rodopos village when the weather turned really bad. The second effort saw us all the way there. A complete set of new pictures and a new addition for 'Driving out days' on the cards.
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Cretanvista Calendar Photos
2003
Not be obvious on the gallery - each calendar is printed on white linen-faced card & occupies two complete (A4) pages. Hung horizontally each months high quality picture is printed on the top page. The
page below has a full size light-watermark of the same image with the calendar detail overprinted on the image.
Later this year we intend making this years calendar files available for download so that enthusiasts (!) can, if they so wish, print their own copies. I am trying to solve the problem of downloading the card to print them on right now...
COPYRIGHT
All material on the site is strictly copyright. Any use in mass distribution - in print or on websites for example, needs our consent. All the material on the site is original and represents considerable time; effort and no little expense.
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NEW HOTELS FOR KOLIMBARI
Whilst the first of the two new hotels for Kolimbari - right on the beach close to Irini Beach Apartments, looks to be almost complete - part of the site for the second - the old co-op site, looks like a derelict scrap yard. Not a good advert for Kolimbari with the holiday season about to start.
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NEW FERRY SERVICE
Blue Star Ferries have launched a new car ferry service between Souda Bay and Piraeus. Although an obvious competitor to the resident Anek Lines the service times do not conflict from Souda.
Anek currently leaves at 8.30pm whilst Blue Star leave at 12 midnight. |
WINTER WEATHER
February gave way to March with almost continuously grey skies towards the end of the month without a great deal of improvement. The last few days of March, after what seems to have been a final severe storm (which destroyed our computer coms port used for the internet and mail) gave way to five final days of glorious spring sunshine.
April 1st brought back the severe rain - which remains with us...... Definitely NOT a joke!
ROAD SAFETY
January saw a deterioration in road safety in Greece - road deaths increased by 13.1%. Here on Crete January saw 20 serious accidents in which 11 people lost their lives.. With the holiday season approaching this is not good news.
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MORE FUN & SERIOUS PLEASURE PLEASE!
I offer no apologies for repeating the next paragraph - published in the first issue and second and now the third issue of the news page!............ 'To our visitors who have taken the time to tell us that they have found our site enjoyable/ informative/ helpful/ or otherwise complimented the site - very many thanks. We are trying very hard it's really good to know that you like it. Besides, my wife notes that many of you are ladies! Please don't stop!!'
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Almost A Year Ago ..
Almost a year ago - April 4th 2002 - Candy, our border collie x, our family companion for 17 happy years, collapsed and died at 11.50am here in Astratigos, where she now rests. We still miss her...
Short Stories - Candy
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There were a few nice March days..
Quite often when out and about we bump into the unexpected. We don't know who this is, but he was net-fishing on one of the few good days near the Ecclesiastical Academy in Kolimbari...
We don't know what precisely he was fishing for as he didn't land while we were there, but it is a nice spot for a swim. |
