Welcome to our series entitled Our Life in Crete. You might find this useful if you are planning or wishing or dreaming of moving to Crete, or anywhere else for that matter.

You can view this as a series of articles rather like you'd find in a weekly newspaper on a particular theme.

Click on the links below to read more of our Life in Crete series:

The newest Crete attraction is the fabulous Botanical Park of Crete located close to Chania!

Essential advice to make sure mosquitoes don't spoil your vacation in Crete!

Get ready for Easter in Crete!

Fresh trout in a mountain village!

Trip to Zacharioudakis Winery...hic!

Apokries - time for Carnival!

Cats in Crete - part of Greek Island Life

Sexy Sakis and the Eurovision Song Contest

Crete in February, Missing Curry, and other News

Spring is in the air!- February 1st

A Donkeys Tale - January

New Years Eve in Crete

Mid December Snow Capped White Mountains

More Images of Crete in November

Some Images of Crete

Paying Bills and Super-Fresh Lamb

The Season's over - the Weather in Crete

How to make the perfect Greek salad

A Kalyves Holiday - when relatives visit

Kingfishers in Kalyves

Driving in Greece can be bad for your health

Swallows in Kalyves gathering now

Greek Graffiti and other News

The Water Melon, a real delicious summer treat in Crete

Mamma Mia! Comes to Crete

Outdoor Eating in Crete

Our July 08 trip to the UK - an Iraklio Airport Experience

Hot and Busy in Kalyves

Want to get a flavour of what living life in Crete is like?

Want to get to keep abreast of what Alison and me get up to on a daily basis?

Keep up to speed by checking out my (at least) weekly articles.

I want to share our experience with you for several reasons.

This series will give you a real flavour of what it's like to move abroad and live in another country on a daily basis. (I know a lot of you are planning or wishing or dreaming of doing it).

We are always looking at ways to provide useful information for visitors to our site, and I feel that this will be a good way, a little out of the ordinary so it's more interesting.

I love writing, and writing stuff that adds useful, quality and entertaining content to our Website is a double or treble bonus! I hope to let you know how we go about developing this web site too. Greek TV's not that good so it'll give me something to do in the evenings because you can't go to the taverna/bar every night! – (can you?)

There will be news too.

We will post the best of the news from here in Crete and Greece. This won't always be serious news there will be some funny stuff too, like the recent head-on collision between two refuge trucks as they attempted to avoid a flock of sheep on the road (no one was hurt).