PFPO’s stray animals meetings with German MEPs and the Authorities in Crete
PFPO PRESS RELEASE – (repost) Last month MEPs Professor Klaus Buchner, animal activist Stefan Eck and Georgios Chatzimarkakis, who is from Crete, organized a congress […]
Book club in Apokoronas
NEW BOOK CLUB Kindle/ebook recommended Meets Monthly Read an entertaining, interesting book every month. Members take turns to propose a choice of books. Meet, discuss […]
A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former apokoronas resident
A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life […]
A driver’s licence saga
AN received a letter from a reader about problems with the renewal of a drivers licence. Name and email supplied. ‘Last autumn, the government introduced […]
Giving up … Smoking
Just a few days after the publication of a study in #ekathimerini concluding that 15,000 Greeks a year die from smoking, here is another contribution […]
Police respond quickly to save animals of an ill owner from eviction
Mrs Bobolaki, President of Pan-Hellenic Animal Welfare and Environmental Federation issued the following press statement last Friday. “(Thursday) I was contacted by Kalyves vet Mr […]
How I learnt to live with a dog
I’ve always been a cat person. People who know me were very surprised to see me walking around the village accompanied by a dog on […]
State of emergency for the whole of Chania Prefecture
The regional authority declared a state of emergncy for the whole of Chania Prefecture. The storm that lashed the west side of the island caused […]
Giving up… DRINKING
John Aitch, a retired international journalist who commutes between a rented flat in Kalyves and his cottage in Scotland, has been giving up things half […]
Record rainfall in Chania in January
High levels of precipitation were recorded in January in almosr every part of Greece. The graph from the national observatory / meteo.gr shows the recorded […]
Region of Crete approves significant works for Apokoronas
Earlier in the week, the Regional Authority of Crete announced it approved Apokoronas plans for the improvement of the Vryses – Georgioupolis road. The work […]
Strong winds disrupt ferries, bring cloud of dust to Crete
Gale force winds in the Aegean, reaching speeds of up to 9 Beaufort, tied up ferries at the ports of Lavrio and Rafina, but also […]
Rayanair announces new fare reductions
On Monday Ryanair has announced 20% price reductions on its flights, to cheer people up on ‘Blue Monday’, said to be the ‘most depressing day […]
Winter here to stay – for another week …
After the unusually long spell of cold and rain the weather in Crete is not going to improve in a hurry despite a couple of […]
And a very Happy New Year
Apokoronas News wishes a very Happy 2019 to all readers. Hopefully the blog will return in the new year with more regular postings of local, national […]