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What’s left after the Sunday flea market in Athens?
January 13, 2010 – 3:26 pm
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Athens, Cretan grandfathers, flea market, portrait
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And I leap into 2010….
January 2, 2010 – 7:34 am
…like this hyper little lamb. I spotted him just outside the Arkadi monastery near Rethymnon, Crete. By the time I took out my camera, he was speeding away.
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By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in Photos, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Arkadi, cute animals, family, Rethymnon
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Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
August 22, 2008 – 2:34 pm
THE NEW YORK TIMES
July 27, 2008
Journeys | Crete
Days of Wild Oregano and Goatherds
A SPIRALING, slightly treacherous dirt road leads to Aspros Potamos, an enclave of 300-year-old cottages in eastern Crete once used by olive farmers and goatherds. Peaceful and primitive, with stone floors, oil lamps for light and a starry night sky, the cottages, [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, The New York Times, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged Aspros Potamos, donkeys, Greece, Itanos, oregano, Palaikastro
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Crete, With Strings Attached
December 8, 2007 – 3:53 pm
Crete, With Strings Attached
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The rugged Greek island of Crete may be the last place on Earth where kids love their grandparents’ music so much that they play it every weekend.
In Rethymnon, a pretty seaside town of about 40,000 people, the wail of the ancestral lyra always trumps the boom-thud of European [...]
By Joanna Kakissis
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Posted in My Articles, Travel + Culture
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Also tagged En Chordais, Greece, music, Rethymnon
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