(*The following is a teaser excerpt from my book Uniquely Crete: Life Redefined on a Greek Island to be released April 30 - available for preorder now on Amazon) I have a love affair with maps: Old out-of-date ones or slick, still-crispy new ones. It doesn’t matter what condition they’re in. As long as there’s a longitude …
Category: Crete
Slow Cookery, Deliberate Dining
(Revised post from July 2, 2015) The Greeks have mastered the art of SLOW. You see it everywhere. No one seems to be in a rush --- well, except when they speak or drive. But seriously, a typical meal can last up to three or four hours, Greek Orthodox church starts early in the morning …
HYGGE YOURSELF
Imagine yourself taking a much-needed break away from the busyness and stress that everyday life dishes out. Not a break in the sense of a destination or vacation. Just a few moments or hours where you can relish in the moment of well-being and calmness. It doesn’t have to be at an expensive spa or …
Critters of Crete
One of my favorite rainy/snowy day activities is perusing through my thousands of photos and organizing them into little folders (A touch of OCD, I know, but well worth the journey.) Some of the pictures I took of the critters on Crete made me smile, cry and laugh out loud. The island is home to …
Uniquely Crete
The rock, the hard place and all the beauty in between… When her husband Richard was offered a job overseas, Melanie moved far away from her small mountain community in Colorado to the remote Greek island of Crete. She looked forward to an idyllic life in the Mediterranean, but she didn’t anticipate how the experience …
Mamma Mia On Crete
(*Update: Book release date April 30, 2019) Writing a book is like birthing a baby. Except the labor has been over two years long. There were moments I literally screamed, "I CAN'T DO THIS!" but it was there inside me demanding to be born. And I knew that the labor would produce a happy ending. …
Three things I love about Crete
Gazing out of the clouded airplane window, I absentmindedly take note of the expansive blue beneath me, We are flying over the Mediterranean Sea in route to the island of Crete. A German voice over the intercom jolts me out of my daydreaming and soon the english translation follows. “Ladies and Gentlemen, we are beginning …
Wander, Linger, Savor
This blog is dedicated to the idea of slow living specifically as it relates to travel in all forms. When I moved to the island of Crete, it didn’t take me long to appreciate the art of slowing down. And after five years of living in the Mediterranean, I fully embraced the practices of wandering, …
Home Crete Home
As I look back on photos of our visit to Crete, I realize that they reflect my favorite things about this very special island that we called home for five years. Hands down, my favorite memory of the island is the people. Coming in second - a tie between the sea and the food. After …
From Crete to Colorado
“The only place we have to see before we die is the place of seeing God. And His presence is everywhere for those who slow to see.” Ann Voskamp Welcome to my new blog! After I retired my five year blog, Cretan Chronicles (www.cretanchronicles.wordpress.com), it wasn’t much later that I began to get the …
Melanie A Crane 