Cretan Culture Cuisine and Nature in Fournes
Fournes, Greece
Trip Type: Food Tours
Duration: 6 hours
Dimitra, your hostess, offers an exquisite hospitality experience for her guests, whom she all considers as "her friends". The experience is based around her stone-built house near Chania Crete, which features a large yard as well as lots of flowers and trees, and includes excellent local food cooking, invigorating chit-chat, unique village-strolls, and learning opportunities regarding the local traditions.
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Dimitra, your hostess, offers an exquisite hospitality experience for her guests, whom she all considers as "her friends". The experience is based around her stone-built house near Chania Crete, which features a large yard as well as lots of flowers and trees, and includes excellent local food cooking, invigorating chit-chat, unique village-strolls, and learning opportunities regarding the local traditions.
Dimitra Pateraki is your Hostess for the whole experience
Dimitra owns a private Scool of English, and considers herself a hospitality champion. She loves taking care of her guests, and helping them immerse themselves into the local cretan culture and way of life.
1. Family get-together: culture,cuisine
The visitors will have a chance to experience the daily routine of the local Cretan, learn about the area and its history, cook local deli dishes like “Haniotiko pilafi” and “mpoureki” and enjoy the warm and friendly chit-chat
2. Walk-about on foot
The visitors will walk to the unique local high-altitude olive groves, visit the St Raphael chapel, and walk to the Keritis river, local orange groves and the botanical park, therefore experiencing first-hand all local flora and fauna
3. What’s SPECIAL about this experience
A chance to thoroughly relax and enjoy oneself, amid the authentic cretan landscape
4. Fournes, Crete - Where the Experience will take place
Fournes is 16 km away (Northwest) from Chania city and is built in the rich valley of Keriti river. It is the biggest village of the prefecture with 663 residents. In 15 minutes you can find yourself at the amazing beaches of Platania's and Sainta Marina, on the north side of the island.
Dimitra owns a private Scool of English, and considers herself a hospitality champion. She loves taking care of her guests, and helping them immerse themselves into the local cretan culture and way of life.
- Place of ORIGIN: Chania, Crete
- LIVES in: Fournes, Crete
- SPEAKS: English
- LOVES: travelling, gardening, cooking, reading
- Has TRAVELLED to: England, Tunisia, Dubai, Thessaloniki, all over Crete
- Personal TRAITS: patience, serenity, politeness
1. Family get-together: culture,cuisine
The visitors will have a chance to experience the daily routine of the local Cretan, learn about the area and its history, cook local deli dishes like “Haniotiko pilafi” and “mpoureki” and enjoy the warm and friendly chit-chat
2. Walk-about on foot
The visitors will walk to the unique local high-altitude olive groves, visit the St Raphael chapel, and walk to the Keritis river, local orange groves and the botanical park, therefore experiencing first-hand all local flora and fauna
3. What’s SPECIAL about this experience
A chance to thoroughly relax and enjoy oneself, amid the authentic cretan landscape
4. Fournes, Crete - Where the Experience will take place
Fournes is 16 km away (Northwest) from Chania city and is built in the rich valley of Keriti river. It is the biggest village of the prefecture with 663 residents. In 15 minutes you can find yourself at the amazing beaches of Platania's and Sainta Marina, on the north side of the island.
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