Crete

Last week, I was in Crete for a conference. As you may (or may not) know, I am working as a propulsion engineer in the aerospace field, and my colleagues always have good ideas about where to organise important events. Therefore, we discussed about utterly serious things in a stimulating environment… I think we should move our whole department there, instead of just making conferences. Anyway, if you want to know more about it, just have a look at this link.

The reason I write is clearly a less serious one: Crete is actually a very nice place, therefore I attached a weekend to visit it, and I found out that amazingly, many colleagues had the same idea. Strange… We travelled around the island in a nice Mini, we had some trouble when we wanted to do a second day of travel, because of truck strikes that lead to a fuel shortage in the whole island, and I nearly lost my plane because of a taxi strike, but else everything was fine! The most interesting region for me was the Lasithi Plateau, a green flat region at more than 800 m height and surrounded by mountains. When you are there, you forget about being in a mediterranean island, and you are projected into a surreal swiss-like landscape.

You can have a look at the full photo gallery here.