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Welcome to Live Crete Alive and Stressloos Kreta.

In this blog you will find a lot of useful information about the island of Crete and how to visit it. As also about the private daytrips I’ve organised, so you can live with me the real Cretan life. Information about these daytrips you will find on the right hand side under pages, Live Crete Alive daytrips.

And in case you are still looking for a place to stay, have a look at my post about Fodele Relax.

Enjoy my blog!!

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le crucifix au sommet d’un crâne

Grâce à une jeune femme parisienne, je vous raconte cette histoire.

Elle a participé à l’une de mes excursions et après notre visite dans un monastère, elle m’a demandé ce que signifie le crâne sous la croix.

Au de sous du Crucifix se trouve le crâne

Je ne connaissais pas la réponse, alors j’ai commencé à chercher. Si je ne sais pas quelque chose, je commence à chercher des personnes dont lesquelles je pense qu’ils peuvent me donner la réponse.

Et voici la réponse

Le crâne sous la croix représente le crâne d’Adam. Plusieurs sources nous disent que les os d’Adam ont été retrouvés de nombreuses années après sa mort et ont été enterrés sur la colline de Golgotha, où Jésus a été crucifié de nombreuses années plus tard.

Sur la croix, Jésus a perdu beaucoup de sang à cause des blessures qu’il avait dans le corps, (Nos péchés peuvent être pardonnés aujourd’hui a cause de son sang qui coulait) son sang s’est infiltré de la croix dans la terre, sur le crâne d’Adam. Et ainsi Adam fut le premier dont les péchés ont été pardonnés.

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jouer le komboloï

Comme je l’avais promis à l’équipe de Pierre Maillard, je vous donne ici les informations nécessaires pour jouer le komboloï correctement.

Placez le komboloï comme sur la photo entre le troisième et le quatrième doigt.

Maintenant, vous devez déplacer votre main pour que le côté du komboloï derrière vos doigts vienne de la paume de votre main, comme sur la photo ci-dessous.

vous voyez qu’entre le troisième et le quatrième doigt, il y a toujours la corde du chapelet

dans le dernier mouvement, nous amenons les trois doigts inférieurs entre les cordes du komboloi, comme sur la photo ci-dessous

Comme vous pouvez le constater, il n’y a pas de corde entre le troisième et quatrième doigt.

le dernier mouvement nous amène à la position de départ où nous rapportons le quatrième doigt sur la corde du bomboloï

voilà, c’est tout 😉

Mais comme je sais que ce n’est pas si simple, j’ai aussi fait une petite vidéo pour vous avec tous les mouvements.

Beaucoup de plaisir a tous!!!

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Excursion must-know for Crete

When you buy an excursion be sure you get the right information from the seller.

A lot of sellers won’t give you all the information. Here are some examples of what they may forget to tell you:

  • extra fees, for example : entrance fees, travel taxes, a meal that is not included, a boat trip fee, etc.
  • that the duration of the pick up (before the excursion starts) can take one hour or more.
  • that the guide will not speak only your language in the bus, but also 2 or 3 other languages.
  • the duration of the excursion. (the giving of a false return time is very common)
  • that you can’t pay everywhere with a credit card.
  • that cash money will be gathered in the bus by the guide.
  • if you will be the first or last ones on the pick up list.
  • If your hotel is at the end of the list you may ask if they can arrange 2 seats together. (unless you don’t mind sitting apart during the whole trip.

Here is already some more information about beach excursions on Crete. 

Have with you of course your bathing suit (we have only very few nudist beaches and no organised excursion will take you there 😉) and instead of taking a towel (takes a lot of space in your bag and is quit heavy) take a large scarf to lay on, they dry fast and or very light. You will also need a pair of surf shoes because at nearly all the beaches here there are rocks in the water. Most of the beaches have sunbeds and umbrellas, but then if you don’t want to be all the time with a lot of people around you buy yourself an umbrella (they’re not expensive) so you can find yourself a quit spot on the beach. The waters in Crete are very clear so take a diving mask with you!

If you want to go for a walk in the mountains then this is what you will need.

First of all take enough water with you as also some nuts and raisons, these are light to take with you and a perfect energy source. Make sure you wear walking shoes ( no brand new onces please) and use walking sticks if you have (they will help you stepping down from rocks and stones). Protect yourself against the sun (not only your head but your whole body) by covering yourself and you should also protect yourself against the heat, so take a small towel with you that you can make wet from time to time and put it in your neck, not on your head! If you go into the mountains without a guide (something I do not recommend) take a compass with you or download one on your phone and inform some people of the hike you’re going to do.

So before you book an excursion be sure to ask about these points or try to look them up on the internet. This is easy to do for entrance fees and for distances, so you can figure out by yourself the extra money you will need, and the return time of the excursion you want to do.

And the most easy way is to send me an email to livecretealive@outlook.com with your questions about excursions organised in Crete. I will answer you accurate and within a day.

But first of all enjoy your stay in Crete!!!!!!

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Voutimata oder Kekse

Zutaten :

1 Kilo Mehl. 3 Tassen Olivenöl
1 Glas Orangensaft
2 Gläser Zucker
1/2 Teelöffel Zimt
2 Esslöffel Backpulver 1 Esslöffel Soda

Vorbereitung
Alle Zutaten ausgenommen dem Mehl vermischen, dann fügen Sie das Mehl hinzu und zu einem festen Teig kneten, bei Bedarf Mehl dazugeben, bis der Teig nicht mehr klebt.

30 Minuten im vorgeheizten Backofen bei 180 ° C backen

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The last preparations

Sipping my mountain tea I’m preparing the tea box that I will use on Monday the 22 during a test drive of the Rethimnon livecretealive day trip!!

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A day in my life

It’s Catholic Easter today and Palm Sunday for the Orthodox church. It’s cold in Crete (14° C) for the time of the year, but I decide anyhow to go for a walk to the monastery of Agios Panteleimonas, a distance of a bit more than 3km from where I live in Fodele. The path goes up and after a while I start having stunning views, over the village, the orange groves, the mountains, the olive trees, I see the flowers of the Cistrus Creticus everywhere, so I really enjoy my walk up.

After half an hour I reach the Monastery and my good mood is swept away when I see this

There is an entrance fee to pay! I am so disapointed….., I don’t understand, this is a small monastery, with a great history , yes, that you can read inside, but there is no museum or anything else that you should pay for. This is a religieus place, a place for prayer. I visited the Notre Dame in Paris last winter and there was no entrance fee to pay.

I went inside, sat down for a while to listen to the psalms, I took some crosses specially made for Palm Sunday and I left.