Yiorgos Studios Paleochora Crete

Poor May…… …..How careless of me; I allowed May to slip away without paying an awful lot of attention. It’s easily done though. The first week passed so very easily; that was the week when we abandoned the well-worn winter […]

Late March, and a dreich, drizzly day for my trip to Hania……The sun wasn’t keen on popping out for most of the way, only every now and again beaming through tender fresh greenery or highlighting increasing patches of nature’s palette […]

At a certain time, on a certain kind of winter’s day the setting sun throws out the most stunning golden beams of light. There, at a certain point on my drive home from Hania, standing ready to participate in the […]

Bright sunshine, yet the rolling, crashing waves made it chilly to be right by the sea. A few steps away, across the road to Studios Yiorgos, and I could sit well out of any breeze and soak up early December […]

The underbelly of a passing seagull radiated the sunsets’ glow, as did the crests of waves, bringing a satisfied ending to the day. At the same time, broken shards of a rainbow cut through grey clouds and plunged into the […]

Every now and again peace descends, when sky and sea stop squabbling about who may be brightest, best, biggest or bluest. At that time of harmony, where there is no work for the horizon to do, she is free to […]

How remiss of me to not have a few words to say about August. Until now that is. Many of our friend-guests were unable to be with us as planned and initially the diary predicted we’d be tending empty rooms. […]

The last Friday of July, fabulous weather, Methexis beach reasonably well populated, given the reduced number of visitors to town this year. Breaking beach etiquette of slightly more reserved behaviour were 4 giggling women, many years away from any educational […]

Stopped in my tracks one afternoon when the sky was That Special Blue. Ordinarily, after mid-June temperatures have risen and day time skies are paler but it was cool-ish for a while….. besides, by then I have little time to […]

When life gives us lemons…get the gin out! That’s how the saying goes is it not?   I could get quite down in the dumps some days when I go up the spiral staircase to my terrace garden. Bad enough […]