After 1.5 hours of flight, we landed at Heraklion (Heraklion) Nikos Kazantzakis Airport. We reached the Creta Maris Beach Resort in Hersonissos, which is half an hour away by shuttle bus. We quickly settled into our room and went out for lunch.
Creta Maris, the first hotel in the Mediterranean to receive the ISO 9001 International Quality Certificate, was built with typical Aegean architecture; a large hotel (resort) in a bay with a sandy beach and azure water. What I noticed was the fact that I didn’t take the coast to monopoly like we did. The road to the beach has not been cut, and the bridges provide access to activity areas, sports facilities and congress halls. Probably the same at other hotels.
When we entered the restaurant, we first visited the buffet stands because we wanted to taste the dishes of the world famous Crete with its cuisine. Crete, which is considered as the healthiest cuisine by nutritionists, is the starting point of Mediterranean cuisine. Because it is a large island, it has micro climatic characteristics and fertile plains in different regions. This increased the diversity of plants with high nutritional value.
Cretan cuisine, II. It is a very rich kitchen, even though it was caused by the lack of World War II. According to the researches, the rates of cancer and heart diseases in Crete are far below the values seen in the world.
We were expecting the seafood to be predominantly in the buffet restaurant but the meat and chicken products were more. Actually, we’re alike in the kitchen. The food that is familiar to us is quite a lot. Leaf wrap, stuffed zucchini blossom, moussaka, casserole, casserole, shish kebab, meatballs, tzatziki, baklava are the first ones that come to mind.
I was most interested in the food and beverage in the hotel, the buffet breakfast was the stand with a variety of jam jam. I don’t normally eat jam, but I didn’t forget to taste onions, hot peppers, smoked peppers, aloe vera, olive jam, which I never thought could be made. There were also unrefined salt types; bitter pepper, porcini mushroom, rose leaf, lemon, spicy, red treasure (Red treasure. Which plant did not know) and black salt. Don’t forget the varieties of olives.
Incidentally; The mountains, stones and plains of Crete are full of olive trees. Two-thirds of Greece’s olive oil needs are produced in Crete. In the Mediterranean legends, there is the incentive to plant the olive tree which is called ‘Immortal Tree’ or ‘Tree of Life.. Like us, they don’t look for mines, plant concrete buildings or cut olives for religious reasons. On the contrary, they buy products from three thousand years old olives. Olive wood spoon, fork, ladle, mortar and so on. kitchen utensils. Therefore, most of the souvenirs have taken their place in shops and markets in the form of products made of olives and olive trees.
35 million olive trees
In Crete, where there are about 35 million olive trees, the Association of Olive Municipalities (ACOM) is working to improve the diets of all people, whether they live on the island or to promote gastronomic tourism, including consumption of local products, and thus create jobs for the Cretans. In addition to the education provided to children in schools, they also try to provide brochures to tourists visiting the island about the importance of olive trees and the health value of olive oil.
On the eastern side of Crete is the Mediterranean climate; local bananas, almonds, carob production. More precipitation in the west; grows avocado, mango, orange, walnut and chestnut. Vegetables are produced in the central and southern regions, wine and raisins are obtained from the vineyards. In short, very fertile soils. Crete not only grows its own vegetables, but gives more to Greece. Throughout history, the invasion of Crete by different civilizations must not only stem from its strategic location, but also from its lands.
One of the reasons why the land of Crete is so fertile is that it is water. It differs from other islands with this feature. On the islands such as Santorini and Mykonos, tap water cannot be consumed because the water obtained from the sea water is only used in dishes, laundry and bathrooms. You even need to buy bottled water to make a cup of coffee.
According to our guide, only on the islands that do not have drinking water, such as Santorini, which derives income from tourism, has been produced in the form of en the island where the sun sets the most beautiful t to revive tourism. However, as the famous writer Ryu Murakami said, güneş The sun sets uniquely in each of the hundreds of thousands of cities in the world. ”
One of the features that make Crete different is the university. After Athens and Thessaloniki, the University of Crete is Greece’s third largest university. There are all departments except law and fine arts.
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