Thanks for the updates, Erno. As with everyone else, I have had to cancel my trip to Sfakia this month. Or, rather, the trip was cancelled for me. The Dutch public has reacted well to the guidelines for lock down in my corner of The Netherlands. Still, I wouldn't have complained if I had been trappe...

under conditions that have not been clarified The weather was benign yesterday (16th), pleasantly cool for hiking, certainly at 10am. Little wind. Of course, there is no accounting for exact circumstances of accidents. There is noticable effects of the storms, with ground more unstable in some plac...

This year Ryanair cancelled its flights from Eindhoven (Netherlands) to Chania. I had been taking those flights for the past 3 years and the flights were always full, even in May. Transavia flies Amsterdam/Chania and Ryanair still flies to Chania out of Weeze (Germany), another low-cost option for e...

Note that this is the 4th rescue incident in the same spot There had been another problem in the last week of September when the ferries weren't running and the weather was bad. A number of hikers coming from Sougia got to that nasty section around 9pm .. in the dark. You could see their flashlight...

As of last week there was no replacement for the Neptune. So there would not be an 8:30 departure from Ag Roumeli. The earliest ferry would be (currently) the Samaria, coming from Paleohora/Sougia around 10:30. It also does not appear to be holding to the 11:30 departure, sometimes leaving earlier. ...

Indeed, some of the keel looked to be rotting wood. This was easiest to see where the rudder housing had been separated from the stern. It does not look like an easy or quick fix. Much of the keel has been damaged, bow to stern.

some people have booked with Ryanair to come to Chania/ Sfakia in May, but just got their return flight in June cancelled by Ryanair That is certainly bizarre and very client-unfriendly. In my entire life I have been confronted with only 2-3 flight cancellations. In all cases they were one-off (not...

Fortunately for me, none of the Ryanair flights Eindhoven/Chania have been cancelled. Are these cancellations recent? A few months ago Ryanair cancelled a lot of flights from their bases on the continent, and that was because of personeel/scheduling issues. Do you have an idea of the airports/countr...

This very large work was carried out in just 5 months, with absolute success This does not sound very Greek to me. What went wrong with their cultural traditions? [hypo] It must be 15 years or more since I last used the airport at Heraklion. It was overcrowded back then. I hate to imagine what it h...

OK, that would make some sense. I do have experience with buses waiting at crossroads, trying to merge into speeding highway traffic -- or watching trucks pull into traffic and let the cars figure out what to do.