One month, six towns, several villages and rural areas, in some of the most interesting parts of Greece!
No wonder why I packed both my dslr, a tripod, my mac and the spare monitor. I was expecting this to be an amazing month and to document and share every step along the way.
It turned out that it was an amazing month indeed but I never took one single shot with all that fancy equipment I was carrying! Instead I only got the chance to write 3 posts using exclusively my phone for taking the pictures, editing them and writing the posts altogether.
Now I am back to the starting point of this journey and I think that it's time to share some more of the pictures that are sitting in my phone, completing the story and giving it a proper epilogue :)
The first 3 pictures are taken in November 25th, during an evening walk at Heraklion, the capital of Crete and the only town on the island that can be described as a city.
It is half an hour drive from the village that we were staying and a welcome change of scenery for our day off :)
Three days later we had finished the harvest and we took the road for the second family house and the olive groves on the east side of the island.
As I grow older I tend to dislike the big motorways. I find them claustrophobic and boring. And resting at a gas station seems so sad. Especially when you are crossing a wonderful scenery. The countryside gives so many opportunities for small picnics during your trips. Like this lovely chapel in the pictures above.
Isn't it a great stop to stretch your legs before you continue driving?
Olives harvesting and rain don't go together. Apart from the obvious reason that you can't work outdoors when you are all wet, you may also damage the trees. So in the past, a sudden rainfall that would stop us from our work was a source of frustration. But not this year.
Eastern Crete is suffering from a severe drought, second year in a row. When we arrived we saw hundreds of trees brown, as if they were burned by fire. A discouraging sight for sure since we are talking about old, magnificent trees.
This year when the rain was stopping us it was a moment of joy. Every drop is valuable, maybe even crucial for the survive of the area's flora.
Unfortunately it was mostly short showers rather than a long lasting rainfall. For example, I took the two pictures above within an hour, as we were waiting for the shower to pass.
But they were better than nothing and nothing was what we had for way too many months!
The rest of the days passed so quickly. With the work on the fields, friends to see and places to visit, we didn't even realise how we found ourselves watching the last sunrise on the island from the ferry's deck that was bringing us back to mainland!
If you missed the previous posts about this trip you can follow the links below:
I took those pictures with a Redmi Note 12s mobile phone and did some minor editing on the phone itself.
All the pictures and the words are mine.
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