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“Congrats, you’re pregnant!” Doctor tells stunned Cretan man

May 9, 2019 Very Mix 0

A man on the island of Crete had a simple blood test at a public hospital of Herakleio. However, he was stunned to hear the doctor telling him that he was …pregnant! The man turned to local news website nea kriti to tell his unbelievable story. He underwent a blood …

UK expat reports about her experience in Greek public health hospital

April 24, 2019 Social 2

We hear a lot about the public health care system in Greece and it is mostly negative reports about shortage of personnel and stuff, delays in operations and appointments with doctors. Tessa Cross, an expat form the UK, has something different to report. In a e-mail to KTG, Tessa expresses …

UPD Polish tourist Andrzej Weber missing in Chania area, relatives ask for help

April 14, 2019 Social 0

Local authorities are on alert about 64-year-old Andrzej Weber who arrived on the island of Crete on April 6 and went missing three days later. His last phone call to his family was on April 8, 2019. Weber went missing in the region of Sougia on Tuesday, April 9. According …

First private Crematorium in Attica expected to go in operation in autumn

April 8, 2019 Lifestyle 0

The first private crematorium in Greece has received a license and it looks as if it will go in operation before the public ones. The private facility is located in Ritsona in North-East Attica, near Halkida. It is expected to go in operation in upcoming autumn. According to daily ethnos, …

Sitia under water after torrential rains strike East Crete (picts, videos)

April 7, 2019 weather 0

Homes and businesses flooded, agricultural land was covered by water and mud and the city of Sitia in Lasithi Prefecture on the island of Crete turned into a huge lake following huge volume of rainwater that fell in the area on Friday and Saturday. The magnitude of the disaster has …

People trapped in floods, landslides as torrential rains strike Crete (videos)

April 6, 2019 weather 4

A big operation is underway to evacuate a family trapped in the floods in Pilalimata by Sitia in the Prefecture of Lasithi on the island of Crete. Four children, two elderly and a woman have escaped on the roof top after the water level reached a dangerous height of 3 …

New delicacy from Crete: Escargots on the Skewer or Snails Souvlaki

March 31, 2019 Eat-Drink 4

You always thought escargots, the land snails, can be eaten cooked or simmered and in Cretan extreme first cooked and then fried? You are kind of outdated. A local in Messara by Heraklio, Crete, invented a new technique for the delicacy: Escargots on the Skewer or Snails Souvlaki. The snails …

Rain and river sweep away the makeshift road by Keritis Bridge (video)

March 29, 2019 Very Mix 0

It needed a powerful rainfall and the makeshift road locals built on their own initiative disappeared in time much shorter than the illegal constructors needed to build it. Residents of Alikianos constructed the illegal road over night, fed up with the bureaucratic delays. The heavy rainfall that started on Thursday …

Flooded rivers and streams as heavy rainfalls & strong winds strike Crete

March 29, 2019 weather 0

Heavy rainfalls and strong winds have been striking the island of Crete since early Friday morning, confirming the meteorologists forecast. The biggest island of Greece is isolated by air and sea as winds blowing with intensity of up to 10 Beaufort have brought ferries traffic to halt, while airplanes have …

The Greek village where nobody smokes or can buy cigarettes (video)

March 27, 2019 Lifestyle 0

In the land of smokers there is a village where nobody smokes, no shop sells cigarettes and ashtrays have disappeared long ago. Residents of village Skotino decided to cut this bad habit some forty years ago. Nobody in the picturesque village of Hersonissos Municipality by Heraklio can really remember how …

Bridge collapsed, bureaucracy slow? Cretans construct makeshift road (videos)

March 26, 2019 Uncategorized 0

The church bells tolled and 500 residents of Alikianos flocked to protect the makeshift road they constructed with their own money after the historical Keritis bridge collapsed last month due to the severe rainfalls last month. The locals decided to take the situation in their hands. A group of construction …

Greece and Israel to surveil Turkey with marine radar installed on Crete

March 23, 2019 World 0

Israel plans to build advanced marine radar on the Greek island of Crete in a bid to watch the route of a planned natural gas pipeline that will carry gas to Greek Cyprus and Greece. The revived “Long Horizon” project will possess the capacity to watch most of Turkish shores …

Blackout on Crete: Power gradually restored after explosion in PPC plant

March 22, 2019 Very Mix 2

A power-outage paralyzed the island of Crete following an explosion at the power plant of the Public Power Corporation in Linoperamata by Heraklio on Friday. The blackout caused major problems in traffic, airports, hospitals and army facilities, while dozens of citizens were trapped in elevators. “The power has been restored …

Smart Benches installed in two main squares of Heraklio, Crete

March 21, 2019 Tourism Comments Off on Smart Benches installed in two main squares of Heraklio, Crete

The Municipality of Heraklio on the island of Crete installed four smart benches on two of the main squares of the city. The smart benches operate with solar energy and have full energy independence. They offer to the people the opportunity to re-charge their mobile phones and browse through the …

Crete: Mother, 2 children pulled out car plunged in 80-meter deep cliff

March 13, 2019 Social Comments Off on Crete: Mother, 2 children pulled out car plunged in 80-meter deep cliff

A mother and her two children aged 9 and 10, were pulled out of a car that fell off a cliff in the region of Rethymon Prefecture, Crete, on Tuesday. A woman was reportedly driving between Sisses and Aloides, when she lost control of the car that plunged into an …

Crete: Record rainfall for 41 consecutive hours, 15,500 lightnings on Feb 24-26

March 5, 2019 weather Comments Off on Crete: Record rainfall for 41 consecutive hours, 15,500 lightnings on Feb 24-26

Non-stop rain, for 41 consecutive hours, hit the island of Crete between February 24 and 26, while a total of 15,500 bolts of lightning fell, data released by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) has shown. The unprecedented rainfall flooded mainly the West part of Crete and caused huge damages …

The emblematic Keritis Bridge suffered irreparable damage (video)

March 2, 2019 Video GRID Comments Off on The emblematic Keritis Bridge suffered irreparable damage (video)

The images break one’s heart. For 111 years the bridge of Keritis was standing over Alkianos River. The emblematic construction surrendered to the force of nature and the human negligence and suffered irreparable damage. It broke down into pieces on February 25, 2019 when a disastrous weather front struck the …

Granny rescue after she abandoned crumbling home in Crete village (videos)

March 1, 2019 Social Comments Off on Granny rescue after she abandoned crumbling home in Crete village (videos)

Fearing that her house would collapse due to erosion, a granny abandoned her home in a village in Crete and started to walk in the rugged mountainous area, between rocks, boulders, shrubs, mud, landslides and water streams. Her only aid was a crutch and a make-shift wooden stick. Granny Irene …

Weather damages in Crete’s infrastructure may exceed €100mn (videos)

February 28, 2019 Video GRID, weather Comments Off on Weather damages in Crete’s infrastructure may exceed €100mn (videos)

The video shot by a drone shows the damages and the floods in Chania Prefecture caused by barometric low Okeanis that stroke the West past of Crete with powerful rainfalls. It is mostly the infrastructure on the island that suffered immense destruction due to landslides and soil erosion. The road …

Soil erosion threatens villages on Crete, Army installs portable bridges

February 27, 2019 Video GRID, weather Comments Off on Soil erosion threatens villages on Crete, Army installs portable bridges

Following days of powerful rainfalls, soil erosion threatens villages in Platanias Municipality, Crete. With portable, prefabricated bridges the Greek Army tries to re-connect villages with the outside world, after several main bridges collapsed. The video shows the moment when the historical Keritis bridge over Alikianos River collapses as its foundation …

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