zaterdag 29 oktober 2011
Homesick ?
The season in Crete is coming to an end, want to review that fantastic Island?. Here's a link with lots of Video's: http://www.videoholland.tv/
vrijdag 28 oktober 2011
Roadblock
Tertsa is a small village near Mirtos.
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/tertsa.htm
A small road leads to the village, sometimes part of the mountain decides to bump on to the road.
Thanks to Lambros Angelopoulos from Lambros Taverna and appartments in Tertsa who shot this photo.
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/tertsa.htm
A small road leads to the village, sometimes part of the mountain decides to bump on to the road.
Dakanari near Mirtos is for sale!
Due to personal circumstances Dakanari in South East Crete is for sale.
Asking Price € 275.000,00
Description:
The location is situated in the South Eastern part of Crete, in the mountains and has a clear view to the Libyan sea. Only on 3 km distance of the coastal resort of Mirtos. Mirtos is known and loved by a lot of Dutch and other North Europeans as a holiday spot and as a place to spent the winter at very nice conditions.
The area is approx. 6000 m2 large and is divided in 3 levels. The compound is surrounded by impressive mountains, which are all part of the immense Dikti-mountain. Here you will find all privacy you will ever need. Beside the splendid natural habitat such as the many olive-trees and oleanders, a garden has been equiped with grapes, roses, bougainvilles, flowers, herbs, bananas and fruit trees.
Directly in front of the house a giant parasol has been built, covered with grapes, honeysuckle, morning glory and passiflora. To use as a terrace, there is always shade, yours until the sun goes down.
The house has been built in 2006, newly built with qualitatively high-quality material, where money nor effort has been spared.
The house has two layers of each one approx. 100m2 large. Around the house there are huge viranda's, so that there is always a spot in the sun or in the shade if you wish.
Living room with kitchen with all equipment: Furnace, gas stove, electrical spit-roaster and refrigerator. Two bed rooms and a bathroom. In all rooms you find built-in storage. The classification of the second floor is equal to the specifications of the main floor. Doors and windows are made of plastic frames and have double isolating glass, the doors and windows have role shutters and mosquito nets. All spaces are equipped with central heating.
In the outbuilding the installation for the central heating can be found, on the roof you will find the sun collectors, providing you with warm water. Electricity and telephone/ADSL have been installed and connected.
There is drinking water and agriculture water to irrigate the garden.
There is plenty of land around: about 6000 m2 and there is permission to build another house on it, and of course, if you want to, a swimming pool.
Further information and photo's on http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/sale.html
Also you can call +31612807187.
Asking Price € 275.000,00
Description:
The location is situated in the South Eastern part of Crete, in the mountains and has a clear view to the Libyan sea. Only on 3 km distance of the coastal resort of Mirtos. Mirtos is known and loved by a lot of Dutch and other North Europeans as a holiday spot and as a place to spent the winter at very nice conditions.
The area is approx. 6000 m2 large and is divided in 3 levels. The compound is surrounded by impressive mountains, which are all part of the immense Dikti-mountain. Here you will find all privacy you will ever need. Beside the splendid natural habitat such as the many olive-trees and oleanders, a garden has been equiped with grapes, roses, bougainvilles, flowers, herbs, bananas and fruit trees.
Directly in front of the house a giant parasol has been built, covered with grapes, honeysuckle, morning glory and passiflora. To use as a terrace, there is always shade, yours until the sun goes down.
The house has been built in 2006, newly built with qualitatively high-quality material, where money nor effort has been spared.
The house has two layers of each one approx. 100m2 large. Around the house there are huge viranda's, so that there is always a spot in the sun or in the shade if you wish.
Living room with kitchen with all equipment: Furnace, gas stove, electrical spit-roaster and refrigerator. Two bed rooms and a bathroom. In all rooms you find built-in storage. The classification of the second floor is equal to the specifications of the main floor. Doors and windows are made of plastic frames and have double isolating glass, the doors and windows have role shutters and mosquito nets. All spaces are equipped with central heating.
In the outbuilding the installation for the central heating can be found, on the roof you will find the sun collectors, providing you with warm water. Electricity and telephone/ADSL have been installed and connected.
There is drinking water and agriculture water to irrigate the garden.
There is plenty of land around: about 6000 m2 and there is permission to build another house on it, and of course, if you want to, a swimming pool.
Further information and photo's on http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/sale.html
Also you can call +31612807187.
zaterdag 22 oktober 2011
English only
Sorry, from now on only English on this blog.
A lot of Dutch people can read English and I guess some English people read English too :-).
For me it's too complicated to translate all messages all over again.
A lot of information about Mirtos can be found on Wikipedia.
Dutch:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirtos
Link:
(nl) (en) (el) Myrtos Gids
English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtos
Link:
Myrtos Crete Guide
Also http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ can be found on http://www.dmoz.org/, just enter keyword Mirtos
A lot of Dutch people can read English and I guess some English people read English too :-).
For me it's too complicated to translate all messages all over again.
A lot of information about Mirtos can be found on Wikipedia.
Dutch:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirtos
Link:
(nl) (en) (el) Myrtos Gids
English:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtos
Link:
Myrtos Crete Guide
Also http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ can be found on http://www.dmoz.org/, just enter keyword Mirtos
History of Mirtos, South East Crete
Crete is the most Southern and at the same time largest island of the Greek archipelago. With its surface of 8350 km2 the island is the on four after largest in the Mediterranean sea. From East to West it's only 256 km long and between 15 and 60 km wide. Mount Ida is with its altitude of 2456 meters not only the highest peak of the Psiloritisde (or Ida mountain), but also of the complete island. The island shows remarkable contrasts: orange orchards in the west, vintages in the east and inbetween savage mountains and upland plains bordered by caves and gaps. And offcourse one finds the olive-trees all over the island, which provide the olive oil and the olives to eat.
One of the most known regions and also the vegetable supplier of the island, in the surroundings of Heraklion, is the Lassiti upland plain. The largest and most fertile plain of the island is the Messara plain. You come across it if you drive from Heraklion to Matala, on the South coast.
History of Crete: The island Crete has arisen by the collision of European and African continental plates in a similar manner such as on which the Alps and the Himalaya have arisen. The oldest signs of civilisation on Crete date from approximately 6500 b.c.. when peoples from Asia migrated to the island. This period is known as the Neolithicum and ended approximately 3000 b.c.. By this time the Minoian civilisation thrived, which produced good sailors, traders and farmers.
Because they controlled nearly the whole Eastern Mediterranean sea and had hardly any enemies, they developed to a particularly high civilisation. Knossos supposedly was an important ceremonial and political centre. To this minoan civilisation came an end around 1400 b.c.. This is frequently connected with a probable devastating earthquake and volcano eruption (Thera). In this event some even see the reason for the legend of Atlantis. Dendrochronological research has however shown that the Thera eruption happened two centuries earlier (1628 b.c..).
Around 1000 b.c. peoples from the Greek main land migrated to Crete and began the Dorian time. The following 2500 years are characterised by a chain of wars. Successively Roman, Arab, Byzantine, Venice and Turk armies invaded the island. During Turkish predominance, which had started in 1645, the Cretans started a large battle for independence. This fight had been rather limited at first , but after the drama of the Arkadi convent in 1866, the Cretans started a huge revolution which eventually led to the involuntary independence of Crete in 1898. Involuntary, because Crete wanted to connect itself to Greece.
Crete was temporarily ruled by the Greek prince George, but was still under the sovereignty of the Turkish sultan. In 1913 Crete was incorporated in the kingdom of Greece after the victory of Greece in the Balkan war. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century the Mirtos of today did not exist at all. There was, however, a small port which functioned as a kind of market and where the inhabitants of a number of small living communities came together. Those hamlets were situated more or less around the current village, as, for example, at the place where now the church court is situated.
At that small port the products which people cultivated or made, such as vegetables, fruits, wine, oil and cheese, but also charcoal, were shipped to Ierapetra. In that time Ierapetra had already a larger port. From Ierapetra the products were shipped to places such as Heraklion and Athens. In that period there were no roads like now. Only by means of donkey trails one could reach Ierapetra. Hence the importance of the small port of Mirtos. According to a tough story Napoleon has ever been in Ierapetra.
Mirtos existed not yet as real village. That also would be much too dangerous, because also the Libean sea was populated by pirates, who were a real threat for the people and their properties. Hence that people lived deeper country-inward.
The threat of pirates decreased in the 20th century. It became more attractively to live nearer to the sea and especially the port. 90 % of the population of the 6 kilometres further lain town of Gdogia departed before the second World War to Mirtos. This way the real increase of the village Mirtos started. Until the second World War.
In May 1941 German parachutists landed in the west of Crete in a attempt to take over the island. After a heavy fight between Australian, New-Sealand and Greek armies on the one hand and Germans on the other side, Crete eventually was conquered by the Germans. The German army has brought a lot of violence to the South coast of Crete. Mirtos was not spared. On September the 15th 1944 the inhabitants got the order from the Germans to abandon the village within two hours. Many did not obey and that meant that 18 men in Mirtos were killed. The commemoration sign on the square of Mirtos reminds of that dreadful event. The survivors were also struck heavily by the setting on fire of their houses. The inhabitants escaped to the east and this way Mirtos was also threatened to become an abandoned an ruined village. The Germans did not move further east. Ierapetra has for example escaped the destiny of Mirtos.
Many people didn't want to return to Mirtos after the war. As a result of the fires only the walls of the houses were still intact and don't forget the human drama of 18 perished inhabitants and the bitter poverty that had arisen and had cost the lives of many. The land, on which almost anyone depended, had been almost entirely destroyed. But the Greek government repaired a number of houses and obliged escaped people to return to Mirtos. Mirtos started its convalescence.
In the beginning of the seventies tourists started to explore the southern part of Crete and experienced the charm of Mirtos. Local inhabitants offered rooms with shared toilets and showers. The first fans continued to return in those years. Some of them still annual return to Mirtos. You still can find simple rooms, but by far most the appartments which now are offered are good or even luxurious. All chambers or apartments have meanwhile their own bathrooms.
Mirtos has several guest houses, apartment buildings and hotels. With English one can make oneself almost everywhere well audible. Not only tourists, but also hippies had a very pleasant time in Mirtos. In the eyes of many they were idiots, nevertheless they were fully accepted within the community. Many counterculturists also arrived in Tertsa. In the seventies and eighties a number of families have been founded there.
Nowadays people live of the tourism, but also of horticulture. About 1970 in Southeast Crete a beginning has been made with cultivating vegetables and fruits in greenhouses. Two Dutch have introduced this way of horticulture, where more harvest is obtained from the soil. The landscape between Ierapetra and Nea Mirtos has suffered as a result of this. This way of horticulture however brought great prosperity. Ierapetra for example has become as a result, one of the richest cities of Greece.
One of the most known regions and also the vegetable supplier of the island, in the surroundings of Heraklion, is the Lassiti upland plain. The largest and most fertile plain of the island is the Messara plain. You come across it if you drive from Heraklion to Matala, on the South coast.
History of Crete: The island Crete has arisen by the collision of European and African continental plates in a similar manner such as on which the Alps and the Himalaya have arisen. The oldest signs of civilisation on Crete date from approximately 6500 b.c.. when peoples from Asia migrated to the island. This period is known as the Neolithicum and ended approximately 3000 b.c.. By this time the Minoian civilisation thrived, which produced good sailors, traders and farmers.
Because they controlled nearly the whole Eastern Mediterranean sea and had hardly any enemies, they developed to a particularly high civilisation. Knossos supposedly was an important ceremonial and political centre. To this minoan civilisation came an end around 1400 b.c.. This is frequently connected with a probable devastating earthquake and volcano eruption (Thera). In this event some even see the reason for the legend of Atlantis. Dendrochronological research has however shown that the Thera eruption happened two centuries earlier (1628 b.c..).
Around 1000 b.c. peoples from the Greek main land migrated to Crete and began the Dorian time. The following 2500 years are characterised by a chain of wars. Successively Roman, Arab, Byzantine, Venice and Turk armies invaded the island. During Turkish predominance, which had started in 1645, the Cretans started a large battle for independence. This fight had been rather limited at first , but after the drama of the Arkadi convent in 1866, the Cretans started a huge revolution which eventually led to the involuntary independence of Crete in 1898. Involuntary, because Crete wanted to connect itself to Greece.
Crete was temporarily ruled by the Greek prince George, but was still under the sovereignty of the Turkish sultan. In 1913 Crete was incorporated in the kingdom of Greece after the victory of Greece in the Balkan war. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century the Mirtos of today did not exist at all. There was, however, a small port which functioned as a kind of market and where the inhabitants of a number of small living communities came together. Those hamlets were situated more or less around the current village, as, for example, at the place where now the church court is situated.
At that small port the products which people cultivated or made, such as vegetables, fruits, wine, oil and cheese, but also charcoal, were shipped to Ierapetra. In that time Ierapetra had already a larger port. From Ierapetra the products were shipped to places such as Heraklion and Athens. In that period there were no roads like now. Only by means of donkey trails one could reach Ierapetra. Hence the importance of the small port of Mirtos. According to a tough story Napoleon has ever been in Ierapetra.
Mirtos existed not yet as real village. That also would be much too dangerous, because also the Libean sea was populated by pirates, who were a real threat for the people and their properties. Hence that people lived deeper country-inward.
The threat of pirates decreased in the 20th century. It became more attractively to live nearer to the sea and especially the port. 90 % of the population of the 6 kilometres further lain town of Gdogia departed before the second World War to Mirtos. This way the real increase of the village Mirtos started. Until the second World War.
In May 1941 German parachutists landed in the west of Crete in a attempt to take over the island. After a heavy fight between Australian, New-Sealand and Greek armies on the one hand and Germans on the other side, Crete eventually was conquered by the Germans. The German army has brought a lot of violence to the South coast of Crete. Mirtos was not spared. On September the 15th 1944 the inhabitants got the order from the Germans to abandon the village within two hours. Many did not obey and that meant that 18 men in Mirtos were killed. The commemoration sign on the square of Mirtos reminds of that dreadful event. The survivors were also struck heavily by the setting on fire of their houses. The inhabitants escaped to the east and this way Mirtos was also threatened to become an abandoned an ruined village. The Germans did not move further east. Ierapetra has for example escaped the destiny of Mirtos.
Many people didn't want to return to Mirtos after the war. As a result of the fires only the walls of the houses were still intact and don't forget the human drama of 18 perished inhabitants and the bitter poverty that had arisen and had cost the lives of many. The land, on which almost anyone depended, had been almost entirely destroyed. But the Greek government repaired a number of houses and obliged escaped people to return to Mirtos. Mirtos started its convalescence.
In the beginning of the seventies tourists started to explore the southern part of Crete and experienced the charm of Mirtos. Local inhabitants offered rooms with shared toilets and showers. The first fans continued to return in those years. Some of them still annual return to Mirtos. You still can find simple rooms, but by far most the appartments which now are offered are good or even luxurious. All chambers or apartments have meanwhile their own bathrooms.
Mirtos has several guest houses, apartment buildings and hotels. With English one can make oneself almost everywhere well audible. Not only tourists, but also hippies had a very pleasant time in Mirtos. In the eyes of many they were idiots, nevertheless they were fully accepted within the community. Many counterculturists also arrived in Tertsa. In the seventies and eighties a number of families have been founded there.
Nowadays people live of the tourism, but also of horticulture. About 1970 in Southeast Crete a beginning has been made with cultivating vegetables and fruits in greenhouses. Two Dutch have introduced this way of horticulture, where more harvest is obtained from the soil. The landscape between Ierapetra and Nea Mirtos has suffered as a result of this. This way of horticulture however brought great prosperity. Ierapetra for example has become as a result, one of the richest cities of Greece.
More about East Crete
Want to see more about East Crete?.
Please watch the movie: http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/video-lassithi.html
The two songs are authorized by the author, you can turn the volume off if you want.
Nice at night.
Also you might want to watch a movie about Mirtos:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/video-mirtos.html
We also have recorded four movies about the roads in East Crete, the safe roads, not the roads for the deardevils among us:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/wegennet.html
Please enjoy..
Many thanks to Piet Roberti; http://www.videoholland.tv/
Please watch the movie: http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/video-lassithi.html
The two songs are authorized by the author, you can turn the volume off if you want.
Nice at night.
Also you might want to watch a movie about Mirtos:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/video-mirtos.html
We also have recorded four movies about the roads in East Crete, the safe roads, not the roads for the deardevils among us:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/wegennet.html
Please enjoy..
Many thanks to Piet Roberti; http://www.videoholland.tv/
woensdag 19 oktober 2011
Contact www.mirtos-reizen.nl
Contact:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/secure/index-eng.php
Please feel free to ask me *anything*.
Vraag me alles, behalve mijn pincode :-), niet een exacte vertaling, maar goed ... :-)
Best regards
Ron Vos
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/secure/index-eng.php
Please feel free to ask me *anything*.
Vraag me alles, behalve mijn pincode :-), niet een exacte vertaling, maar goed ... :-)
Best regards
Ron Vos
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/
Beste leden.
Wij bezoeken Oost Kreta al sinds 1997.
Als u advies wilt, dan is een fraaie link:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/poi.html
of:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/links.html
Misschien zelfs:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/algemeen.html
Wij bezoeken Oost Kreta al sinds 1997.
Als u advies wilt, dan is een fraaie link:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/poi.html
of:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/links.html
Misschien zelfs:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/algemeen.html
Vriendelijke groeten en welkom in Mirtos.
Ron Vos
Information about South East Crete
Dear members.
We come to Crete (East Crete) since 1997.
Please don't hesitate to ask, if you want advise. A nice link would be:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/poi-eng.html
or:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/links-eng.html
Perhaps even:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/general.html
Best regards and welcome to Mirtos
Ron Vos
We come to Crete (East Crete) since 1997.
Please don't hesitate to ask, if you want advise. A nice link would be:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/poi-eng.html
or:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/links-eng.html
Perhaps even:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/general.html
Best regards and welcome to Mirtos
Ron Vos
Blog
Beste mensen/ dear people.
Today I started a blog in Dutch. Totally forgot that there might be not Dutch people reading it :-(.
Vandaag ben ik een blog begonnen in het Nederlands, realiseerde me niet dat ook niet Hollanders het zouden kunnen lezen :-(.
Vanaf nu zijn alle berichten tweetalig, ik hoop niet dat de Duitsers ook nog gaan klagen :-).
Hope not the Germans will also complain :-).
The purpose of this blog, initiated by http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ is that we all exchange experiences and thoughts about that little paradise on Earth, Mirtos.
De bedoeling van deze blog, opgestart door http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ is dat we allemaal ervaringen en gedachten over dat kleine paradijsje op aarde, Mirtos zullen uitwisselen.
Voor de Nederlanders en Belgen is misschien ook de volgende link interessant:
http://www.hyves.nl/hyves/6336995/Mirtos_in_Zuid_Oost_Kreta
If you can't read this, you might want to check this out:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=share&gid=305204952529
Let's all join and make this blog a grand succes, please highlight this special place on Earth: MiRtOs.
Laten we allen bijdragen op deze blog en ons plekje op aarde promoten: MiRtOs.
Veel meer informatie op:
Much more information on:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/
(Dutch, English and Greek).
Welcome !!!
Welkom !!!
Bienvenue !!!
Willkommen !!!
Ron Vos
Today I started a blog in Dutch. Totally forgot that there might be not Dutch people reading it :-(.
Vandaag ben ik een blog begonnen in het Nederlands, realiseerde me niet dat ook niet Hollanders het zouden kunnen lezen :-(.
Vanaf nu zijn alle berichten tweetalig, ik hoop niet dat de Duitsers ook nog gaan klagen :-).
Hope not the Germans will also complain :-).
The purpose of this blog, initiated by http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ is that we all exchange experiences and thoughts about that little paradise on Earth, Mirtos.
De bedoeling van deze blog, opgestart door http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ is dat we allemaal ervaringen en gedachten over dat kleine paradijsje op aarde, Mirtos zullen uitwisselen.
Voor de Nederlanders en Belgen is misschien ook de volgende link interessant:
http://www.hyves.nl/hyves/6336995/Mirtos_in_Zuid_Oost_Kreta
If you can't read this, you might want to check this out:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=share&gid=305204952529
Let's all join and make this blog a grand succes, please highlight this special place on Earth: MiRtOs.
Laten we allen bijdragen op deze blog en ons plekje op aarde promoten: MiRtOs.
Veel meer informatie op:
Much more information on:
http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/
(Dutch, English and Greek).
Welcome !!!
Welkom !!!
Bienvenue !!!
Willkommen !!!
Ron Vos
Mirtos in South East Crete
Here's the English translation of the Dutch text:
Mirtos is a village in the South Eastern part of Crete, on approximately 20 kilometres from the most Southern city of Europe, Ierapetra.
Mirtos has approximately 700 inhabitants and is not yet overrun by mass tourism.
During decades it has retained its own charm and authenticity.
What words can not express; on the Internet site http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ more than 2500 foto' s and films regarding not only Mirtos, but also the wide surroundings tell you a story about the place to be...
Mirtos is a village in the South Eastern part of Crete, on approximately 20 kilometres from the most Southern city of Europe, Ierapetra.
Mirtos has approximately 700 inhabitants and is not yet overrun by mass tourism.
During decades it has retained its own charm and authenticity.
What words can not express; on the Internet site http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ more than 2500 foto' s and films regarding not only Mirtos, but also the wide surroundings tell you a story about the place to be...
Mirtos in Zuid Oost Kreta
Mirtos is een dorpje in het Zuid Oosten van Kreta, op ongeveer 20 kilometer van de meest zuidelijke stad van Europa, Ierapetra.
Mirtos telt niet meer dan ongeveer 700 inwoners en is nog niet bevolkt door massa toerisme.
In decennia heeft het zijn charmes en authenticiteit behouden. Hierin schieten woorden tekort, op de website http://www.mirtos-reizen.nl/ staan inmiddels meer dan 2500 foto's en films over niet alleen Mirtos, maar ook de wijde omgeving. Van harte welkom !.
Met vriendelijke groeten
Ron Vos
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