Walk and follw the footsteps, what the early settlers constructed and built for many centuries ago. No wonder that the ancient Delos was a bustling hub of commerce, religion, and culture during the Hellenistic period,

The fragments of the Mechanism were discovered in 1901 by sponge divers near the island of Antikythera. It is kept since then at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece.

For more than a century, researchers were trying to understand its functions. Since 2005, a pluridisciplinary research team, the "Antikythera Mechanism Research Project", is studying the Mechanism with the latest high tech available

Discover the south west Crete. Sougia - Moni - Agia Roumeli - Finix - Loutro - to Hora Sfakia. Southwest Crete by ferry hopping. Walk the Samaria Gorge, stay in Loutro

Parikia, a pleasant town and busy Port

I like the traditional white and blue painted houses, small and narrow streets in the old part of town, nice town squares, shops, tavernas, bars and restaurants. Most, if not all, of the ferries dock here, which makes the Parikia port busy and creates a lively atmosphere