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Greek style roast leg of lamb

Greek Style Roast Leg of Lamb This is one to really impress your dinner guests when they come for a Greek meal. The house will smell just wonderful as they arrive. Lamb is the traditional meal on...

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Single Malt Whisky

A Brief History Uisge-beatha (Water of life) has been distilled in Scotland and Ireland for many hundreds of years. Early written records date back as far as 1405 in Ireland and 1494 in...

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KEFTEDES GREEK MEATBALLS

KEFTEDES (TASTY GREEK MEATBALLS) I first enjoyed Keftedes in Northern Greece, back in 1978 when I was a guide on a backpacker’s bus company. We stopped at one of the roadside restaurants where I was...

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Delicious melon and parma ham soup

  Melon and Parma Ham soup   Please don't be surprised or put off by the title of this recipe, it's a combination that really works. We had this one not in Crete, but near to Naples (see link below)...

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The World's Largest Snake Ever

Fossil of World’s Largest Snake On Wednesday 4th Feb. 2009 a scientific team made the announcement that the fossilised remains of a snake were found in an open coal mine in northern Columbia. They...

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Bricklaying just got Easy

Bricklaying Just got Easier. Not much interest to a great many of you out there, but this is what I do for a living at the moment so I could'nt resist sharing it with you all. It's called a Trowel Mate and...

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Greek Style Roast Potatoes

  Greek Style Roast Potatoes   These potatoes are a particular favourite with my sons especially with the recipe for Greek Style Roast Leg of Lamb in one of my other Hubs. Serves 6 ...

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Dacos Greek Tomato Based Starter

    DACOS This a bit of a speciality from the Sfakia region on the south of Crete. My wife Jan fell in love with this as a starter on our first visit to Hora Sfakion. The links below will supply...

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This is the same fishing boat I took a trip out on in 1978, still working from the harbour and supplying tavernas66

The Caves of Matala

The village of Matala is one of the oldest villages in Crete and is situated on the South coast in the Messara region some 75 KM from the Cretan Capital City of Heraklion The Caves of Matala...

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How To Book a Budget Foreign Holiday

  How to Book A Budget Foreign Holiday   The world is your oyster when it comes to booking foreign holidays if money is no object. However, I’m sure I’m not alone in finding that money seems to...

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