Staying in holiday mode once the vacation is over and you’re back at work is something that most travellers find hard to do, especially Australians, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and a swag of other media that recently ran the story ‘Keeping Your Holiday Mojo’. It seems people too easily pick up the habits … Read more about Maintaining your holiday mojo
These colorful old doors, paint peeling from them beautifully, lean against the stone walls in a charming cobbled backstreet in the Old Town of Chania, Crete. They aren’t there by accident. As you can see they’re positioned artfully. They belong to the little taverna across the lane, closed for the winter when we visited, sadly. … Read more about Old doors: a taverna that understands its market (or shares its passion)
Like many travellers I have an obsession with photographing doors. It started in Mexico many years ago and has stayed with me throughout my travels. The more colorful, faded, and older they are the better. If there’s paint peeling off them, wonderful. If there are wooden shutters somewhere on the facade that match, perfect. Like … Read more about Old doors: wondering what’s behind them
Crete’s cafe life is tidal. It ebbs and flows throughout the day and night. It follows a rhythm, a regularly recurring pattern of activity. But each cafe, in each different town, dances to a beat of its own. By day it’s rhythm is directed by the movement of the sun and the cycles of the … Read more about The ebb and flow of Crete’s cafe society
I couldn’t help but capture a snap of these bright blue cafe chairs at a taverna on the waterfront at Chania, Crete, yesterday. How often have you seen similar images on Greece Tourism television ads, in travel guidebooks, or on postcards? This is one of those quintessential scenes that creators of travel images and architects … Read more about Blue Chairs: imagining Greece, the perception & reality