In western Crete, Kissamos charms visitors with its spectacular beaches, traditional villages and landscapes blanketed in olive groves. The region is also home to some of the finest extra virgin olive ...

The plan was to go light on history and museums, heavy on beaches, food and whatever felt right. In other words, the perfect break. The beach at the Phaea Cretan Malia hotel, where the author and his ...

The road writhes like a serpent from the bright blue sea below to the cool, dense forest above. Forests are rare in Crete where, over centuries, goats and Minoan boatbuilders stripped the hillsides of ...