Author Archives: Anthony Papaleontiou

Heraklion Airport appears a few times throughout the series, and in this article we’ll take a brief look at those appearances. In the first episode, the opening shot sets the scene: a Boeing 737 lands at a foreign airport, an Englishman alights and travels into a City that has been developed extensively since his lastContinue reading “Focus On – Heraklion Airport part 2 – its appearances in the series”

During the opening credits of every episode, we see the animated wreath wilting then flowering again. Then inside it appears a filmed sequence of a boat moored in the sea near the Elounda coastline. This sequence starts with the camera pointed at the sea bed, showing how clear the water is, then it pans upContinue reading “Opening credits wreath location”

For those that have seen the older album or book covers, you may have noticed a temple in the photo within the wreath. The temple in the photo looks like it’s on an island and you may think it’s on Spinalonga, but it isn’t – it’s not even on Crete at all. This location isContinue reading “Clarifying album and book cover photo temple location”

George Willemse posted an interesting link on the Facebook group recently. The apartment above the one where Haldane was supposed to be staying is available for holiday bookings. The residence itself is called “The Island”, and the link to it is here. Checking the photos, it looks as though the property is contained on theContinue reading “A special Elounda apartment”

We see Heraklion Airport in a few of the episodes, but the longest sequences are in the first episode, where we see Haldane’s aircraft land, him alighting from it and walking through the terminal. That particular building, designed by architects N.Dessylas, D. Kontargyris, A. Lambakis and P. Loukakis, was a completely new construction, completed inContinue reading “Focus on: Heraklion Airport”

All pages now have static Street Views, which can be clicked on to open the movable Street View in a separate browser tab. I can confirm that the web page loading times have been greatly reduced. Let me know what you think.

Continuing the arduous task of switching the embedded Street Views to static Street Views, episodes 5 and 6 were completed today. Please remember, that the static Street Views are also a link, so you can click on them and it’ll bring up the actual Street View page in a separate browser tab.

I performed another search for Miranda Cottage recently and noticed that the estate agent (Zoe Napier) that was involved in the sale of the property had it up for sale again. The property has been updated by the previous buyers and now looks quite wonderful inside. Below are a few photos of some of theContinue reading “Miranda Cottage revisited”

Continuing the addition of static Street Views, the episode 4 page is now complete. This has increased loading times and has also given me a chance to amend some of the content so that it’s a little more optimised and less ambiguous.

I had some time to replace the embedded Street Views with static Street Views for episodes 2 and 3 today. I’ve also removed some superfluous text and Street Views as I feel they weren’t that important to the description of the location in question. I think it makes that part of the episode more understandableContinue reading “Episodes 2 and 3 Street Views added”