This is the kind of trip that makes you feel free, powerful and infinitely grateful to nature. It starts with two girls at the airport in Iraklio, old friends, one coming from Berlin, one coming from London. They decide to meet again after two years in a greek island, and to explore it together. The trip is a dive into Xenia, the art of treating guests well, so radicated into the ancient greek culture, and still present nowadays. You will rarely find somebody who is ignoring you and not willing to help in any ways, on the dining table a free shot if not a full bottle of raki is never missing, and at the end of each meal a free small dessert or fruit are always offered. παρακαλώ, please, they always say.
Rethymno
In its small narrow streets old shops, bakeries, cats, music, raki. 
Balos
After having had an amazing lunch at the www.gramboussa-restaurant.gr in Kaliviani, a small village that overlooks the sea, you can enter with the car the Kissamos reserve.
Prepare yourself to a tough ride on an unpaved road until you reach a small parking area. One hour walk will bring you on the other side of the peninsula, revealing one of the most stunning paradises in the world. Me and my friend camped on the beach, looked at the moon while having rakimelo (raki with honey) and took a morning swim in that purest water, leaving just before thousand of tourists would invade every small meter of sand.
Elafonissi
Light pink, warm, low water
The South
The inner roads uncover the beauty of the valleys that intersect each other with their colors, rocks, skies.
South Coast
This ferry ride departs from the adorable village of Palaiochora and stops over Sougía, Agía Roumeli, Loutro, Hora Sfakion.
The lybic sea is cobalt blue and gets transparent while approaching the small harbors, the hills are violently bare and dry.
Aghio Farago
Trekking through a gorge with beautiful rocks and low bushes, a small monastery and a deep holiness, the little bay of Aghio Farago opens into the deep blue lybic sea.
Matala
A small village hippies have chosen as representative of freedom, carefree life, no constrains. They used to stop by on the way to India but many stayed and lived inside caves created by the water.
Knossos Palace
El Sol de la mañana reverberó en la espada de bronce. Ya no quedaba ni un vestigio de sangre.
¿Lo creerás, Ariadna? -dijo Teseo-. El minotauro apenas se defendió.(Jorge Luis Borges, La casa de Asterión)
The morning sun reverberated from the bronze sword. There was no longer even a vestige of blood. “Would you believe it, Ariadne?” said Theseus “The Minotaur scarcely defended himself.”
(Jorge Luis Borges, The House of Asterion)
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