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Walking time from Villa Kourkoulios: approximately 14 minutes. Driving takes just 2 or 3 minutes. Just a short walk from Villa Kourkoulios is the small village of Maza. The walk is easy, following a gentle incline before dropping slightly into the village. The road is flanked by olive groves on one side and woodland on the other, offering welcome shade for much of the route. It makes an easy walk for a lovely evening out in Maza. Look out for the yellow-flowered Jerusalem Sag

Hidden among the foothills of Crete's White Mountains, the tiny hamlet of Champatha (Χάμπαθα) is easy to miss. Today it is a peaceful hamlet of old stone houses surrounded by olive groves and woodland, but its history stretches back several centuries. Like many of the small mountain settlements of western Crete, Champatha was almost certainly established centuries before most of the surviving houses were built. Although little has been written about the village in English, hi