I must recommend a delicious yoghurt you can find at many (not all) supermarkets in Crete.

Goat’s yoghurt has tended to have a rather, well…”goaty” taste.
Goat’s yoghurt is recommended as just about the healthiest yoghurt you can consume.

The good thing about the Vero Kritiko brand of goat yoghurt ( ” Katsikisio Yiaourti ” ) is that it tastes good but hardly “goaty” at all – just creamy and good.

Just a tip – hope you enjoy it !

[Note: The packaging is almost identical to this same manufacturer's sheep yoghurt...also good and great tasting but...it's not goat ! ]

From this winter, airport duties, fees to land at Heraklion and Chania airports in Crete, have been cut in half – yes, reduced by 50 percent. That’s huge.

So Richard, Michael, Stelios & Michael – when you gonna’ fly ?

What I mean is – a great time has arrived for year round scheduled, low fare flights from the UK and other European hubs…to Crete, Greece’s largest island.

Crete also boasts a large number of foreign home owners, and students flying to and from the UK, a great appetite to offer traditional hospitality to guests in the winter and an appetite amongst would-be visitors to visit in the “quiet season” when Crete offers a meandering, calm and own-it-all, un-crowded feel.

So my friend Mr Branson and competing acquaintances Mr Bishop, Mr Haji-Ioannou and Mr O’Leary when you gonna fly…

We invite Virgin, BMI, easyJet, Ryanair to add service to Crete. Need our help? Just ask and we will do our best.

Thanks for listening and have a prosperous summer.

First day of May – now is a fine time to be in Crete – yes there are spring showers today and there is a background roar of thunder as I write, but wildflowers are blooming with abandon and it’s a good time to breath deeply of the fine fresh air that nourishes the island.

First day of May – it is also labour day in Europe – so in Greece you can eat in restaurants, sip coffees in cafes and bite into dainty pastries, but you cannot shop!

Wishing for and looking forward to a fabulous, boosting month.