Tag: Nature

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Stressloze winter

Hehe, eindelijk een vrije dag om van te genieten, het is bewolkt en het regent een beetje, je kan de herfst eindelijk ruiken en al het stof wordt weggewassen!!

Tijd om aan mijn tuin te denken, want JA ik blijf thuis deze winter, thuis in Kreta, bij mijn kinderen, in mijn huis met tuin, ik kan eindelijk weer eens groenten kweken en appelsienen oogsten, heerlijk.

Ik had er zoveel zin in vandaag dat ik naar de ‘boerewinkel’ in het dorp gegaan ben en mijn eerste plantjes gekocht heb.

Broccoli, bloemkool, slaatjes, peterselie, rode biet, selder en venkel.

Daar is natuurlijk niets raars aan, alleen is mijn tuin nog niet klaar….. Maar voor alles is een oplossing, kijk maar.

Ik had nog veel waterflessen liggen, daar heb ik potjes van gemaakt en de plantjes verplant zodat ze al een beetje meer ‘voetruimte’ hebben voor ze de grond ingaan.

Zo kunnen ze nog een week of twee op mijn balkon in het zonnetje staan totdat de tuin klaar is.

Alleen zal ik de slaatjes binnen moeten zetten, anders zijn ze morgen allemaal opgegeten door de slakken ☹️, eens ze groter zijn mogen ze ook naar buiten. Natuurlijk staan ze in de tuin ook blootgesteld aan slakken maar dan strooi ik as rond de plantjes, slakken houden daar niet van en blijven uit de buurt.

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Wonder

This is the view I have from my window, nothing special I always said, but today (listening to meditation music) I looked out of the window again and for the first time I saw that tree as it really is.

The beautiful perfect shape it has! It is the only thing in my window view that needed only water and soil to become so perfect…….

Everything else was made with hard labor, materials that had to be made first, constructions, construction plans, money and more.

So remember, wonders really exist, they are everywhere around you, do never forget that.

I wish you a wonderful day from the center of my ❤️

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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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Nearly there

The 2 ‘livecretealive exclusive day trips’ I want to provide are nearly ready, I only have to collect some of the attributes needed. Yes attributes, because these are no sit, visit, listen and look day trips, it are do, feel, experience and learn day trips with a lot of fun and NO STRESS AT ALL.

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The Loquat fruit

When you’re in Crete at the beginning of May you see this kind of tree with it’s yellow fruit everywhere. It has a yellow fruit that has a sweet taste when it’s ripe.

It’s one of the few fruit trees that cary ripe fruit at that time of the year and it is very easy to eat. You should peel the fruit and eat its flesh, it has some dark brown seeds inside that you should not eat.

The video below shows you more about these loquats.

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The caves in Matala

Matala is a small village at the south side of Crete, where the Lybian sea is, there is a beautiful bay there with a sandy beach. The beach and the caves of Matala are well known all over the world because during the 1960s and ’70s hippies from all over the world lived there. They had no rules, no bills and no restrictions. They were free people living from nature in nature.

Every year now you have the chance to relive the hippie atmosphere here in Matala, every third weekend of June there is a hippie festival where ‘everything’ is allowed.

When I go to Matala I usually have lunch in Taverne Minos Palace, Stefanos cooks here for 24 years now, no need to say more about it’s kitchen. The staff is very friendly and professional too, just give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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Gortyn’s olive tree

This olive tree probably saw the Romans build the tempel and odeon in the ancient city of Gortyna during the first century AD. But it also saw the city being destroyed by the Arabs in 828AD. After this destruction live was quiet around it, and then from the 19th century on escavations started in the area and the tree came to its right as all these years it was embrasing and protecting a pillar put there by the Romans.