Tales from Crete

Snow over Crete It is now not so unusual anymore, but again it was the mountains along Crete that were covered with snow before we here in Denmark have seen much of it. The photo, courtesy of west-crete.com, is from...

Perhaps there is still a little more Greek in me than I am aware of, because I have the same view of Christmas in relation to the other major church holiday, Easter, as all Greeks have, that Easter is a...

It is Wednesday morning and outside I can just make out the 40-tonne truck on its way to our warehouse after almost 50 hours of driving and a good 3000 km on the country roads from Athens, where we collect...

Dictamnus, Diktamo, Diffeny or as it is called in Cretan Erontas……. Yes, dear child has many names. Erontas means love and it is not without reason that the Cretans in particular have a very special love relationship with the small...

When I occasionally look after our business in Hem (and it happens from time to time), customers regularly come in and ask when I moved to Denmark, because they think I speak fairly good Danish. Every time I have to...

Today I thought you should have a little story about how my first such real business meeting in Crete went. For a long time I had been thinking about importing some of the wonderful olive oil produced in Crete and...

The last time I was in Crete, I took a trip to the plantations that supply our business with the sweet and juicy Christmas oranges, which it has become a fixed tradition that we bring home directly from Crete and...

When I first became acquainted with Greek wine, or rather Cretan produced wine, in 2005, it was definitely not a good experience. It tasted, quite frankly, like the worst splash I could easily make better at home on one of...

I don't know about the rest of you reading this but I feel like every time I come home from Crete I long to get back there. It's not just the food, the atmosphere, the warmth, the hospitality and whatever...