More old photos - this time from Agia Roumeli In the late 70’s and early 80’s we stayed many times in Agia Roumeli – always spending time in the Restaurant Samaria, our hangout when visiting Aghia Roumeli. At that time, the lower village by the sea consisted of a handful of tavernas with a few simpl...

Still more old photos from Agios Ioannis The first picture shows village muleteer Bartholomeo coming up from the Aradena Gorge. Before the bridge was built everything had to be transported in and out of Agios Ioannis on mules: down to the bottom of the Aradena Gorge and up again on the other side. I...

This time, the women of Agios Ioannis. Pashley remarked on the beauty of a young woman from that village (R. Pashley: Travels in Crete, 1837). The first picture shows Ioanna and Popi fetching water. In the second the young girls (Despina, Evangelia, Georgia, Evangelia and Krisoula) are posing with t...

In the late 70´s my husband and I spent a year in the village of Agios Ioannis in Sfakia. Not many people live in the village today, but we have our memories - and a lot of pictures. One picture shows the extent of the village in 1978-79, from above, looking west. At that time Agios Ioannis had a to...