Spring on Akrotiri  - 24th February 2006

Flowers (or in this case a flowering tree) and snowy mountains is what for me best symbolises spring in Crete. Of course in this picture the perspective was considerably shortened by using a telephoto lense. But even then you can easily combine the two. Yesterday for example I got up early, drove up to Omalos. By 9.00 I was walking on ice with crampons. By 10.00 I was viewing both sides of Crete from a summit. By 14.00 I was back home on Akrotiri and could have been sitting on my local beach if hadn't been so windy.

And by the way, I am off again to the mountains over the weekend so no updates to this page until Monday. Have a nice weekend.

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