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This offer is designed for individual travellers who are sojourning in our island and wish to know a bit of Crete, the country we, the Cretans know! Crete… my beautiful ISLAND

Get to know Crete a unique way, Her mountains, her villages, her cuisine and best of all her inhabitants.We offer you the means and the experience, our knowledge and connections and our love for the country we are living in.

1day nutritional – gastronomic wanderings…

Cretans says that we have the finest gastronomical, tasty and healthy solutions proved andsigned by the medical science society. Cheese pies with thyme honey, wild green pies, spinach pies, snails boubouristi, Staka (fresh goat milk cream) cooked a way only Cretans do, goat antikristo, spaghetti the shepherds way and much more. Tastes unique, mouth watering and all those given with a smile coming deep from our heart…

## SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIAN / VEGAN ##

TASTING CRETE…

VEGETARIAN & NON VEGETARIAN

Natural healthy Cretan Mediterranean meals,

Home-chemical free wines,

Extra Virgin Olive oil, Fresh picking fruits

Minimum participation: 3 Adults maximum 8 people

Price per person:

165 EURO/£142

Includes:

Pick up Transportation from / to hotel, English speaking driver - tour guide, Rich Cretan traditional Mediterranean lunch at selected nice local restaurant, cultural drive or soft mountain walk

SOLO TRAVELERS CAN BOOK THE TOUR ON PRIVATE - TAILOR MADE BY PAYING THE COST OF TWO PERSONS.

When you book , reserve space for two persons.

Not available months: July / August / September

Contact:

Mr. Portokalakis George

Phone: 0030 2815 002754, 0030 2810 317 358, Cell: 0030 6975 735774

Email: info@portoclub.gr + portoclub@cyta.gr

A Greek Culinary Experience: Land food and wine Adventure! Travel to Mythical Greece! One of the great food and wine regions of the world and Enjoy the Extraordinary Cuisine and award winning wines! Discover the wonderful vineyards of Northern Greece the wider Thessaloniki area, Central Greece and Mainland. Feel and taste few of the most famous wine labels in traditional family wineries.

Exploring Greece

WE DESIGN YOUR DREAM TRIP TO GREECE!

Design your own customized educational travel program!

...we build the trip around your schedule, your wants!

We charter Greece!

CUSTOMIZED VACATIONS- CHARTERED VEHICLE –

PRIVATE TOUR GUIDE

Custom design tours mean a more private and self directed way to travel,

Our tours are private for your group, with a specialized guide / bus…more personal / flexible / relaxed.

A Greek Culinary Experience: Land food and wine Adventure! Travel to Mythical Greece! One of the great food and wine regions of the world and Enjoy the Extraordinary Cuisine and award winning wines! Discover the wonderful vineyards of Northern Greece the wider Thessaloniki area, Central Greece and Mainland. Feel and taste few of the most famous wine labels in traditional family wineries.

AN IDEAL TOUR THAT WILL SATISFY EVERY WINE LOVER!

Spend fourteen wonderful days in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece, Thessaly and Mainland! Combine wine with culture and nature! And this Wine tour is not only about wine! Visit important archaeological sites like the museum of Vergina and learn about local customs. Fill in your batteries in the beauty of learn about Greek wine and food! And this tour will prove that Greek wine is very interesting!

Crete on bike

Tour is planned for individuals as few as 2 persons up to small group of 8 persons

Tour leader:

For small party up to 4 persons only back up service

From 5 – 8 persons back up and biker tour leader

Price per person only:

€ 1.680 / $2.260

Services

We provide:

Bikes (on extra cost)

Buck up – support vehicle

Special Athletic Nutrition according the athletic training standards

Detailed directions, routes, maps, etc.

Biker tour leader when over 4 persons

Get the trip you want at a price you will love

Visit Greece at a price you will love

10 Days

10 Days / 9 Nights

Price per person:

$2.264

Based on min. 7 paid students + 1 professor leader free of charge

INCLUDES:

• ACCOMMODATION: 9 nights accommodation : 8 NIGHTS HOTEL ACCOMMODATION at fine 3*** and 4****hotels/ double occupancy on Bed & Breakfast bases and ONE NIGHT ON BOARD (night ferry trip PIRAEUS / CRETE) at AB4 (4 bed cabins with facilites - SHOWER / WC)
• TRANSPORTATION: 7 days chartered a/c 9 setas mini van with driver for all transportation / tours MAINLAND / PELOPONESE / CRETE and SANTORINI.MYKONOS: port / hotel day of arrival and hotel / airport day of departure.
• TOURS: 4 days Classical Greece visiting the museums and sites of DELPHI / OLYMPIA / MYCENAE / EPIDAVROS / CORINTH and Museum and Acropolisat Athens.

Crete: The palace of Knossos and the archaeological museum of Heraklion

Santorini: the ruins of ancient Thera and tour of the island

Mykonos: The sacred island of DELOS (escorted – guided)

Exploring Greece

WE DESIGN YOUR DREAM TRIP TO GREECE!

Design your own customized educational travel program!

...we build the trip around your schedule, your wants!

We charter Greece!

Custom design tours mean a more private and self directed way to travel,

Our tours are private for your group, with a specialized guide / bus…more personal / flexible / relaxed.

By George - Before the turkey, poultry was imported in Greece. Each region of Greece had its own food for Christmas time. Some dishes with pork, and others with duck, goose, wild boar, or rooster. In the Cretan Christmas table, pork was mainly used and this was due to the Choirosfagia (sacrificial pork). The butchering of faltered pig, brought up with particular care from households of Cretan and Greek rural areas, was certainly the most generalized custom in Greek cooking, with roots from the antiquity.

A Cretan enjoys authentic tastes.
Fresh greens are a way of life.
Uncooked fresh vegetables, olives, Cretan Rusk and uncooked greens are eating with a large amount of olive oil.
The favorite appetizer. Bread and olives
The favorite snack. A Cretan Rusk is drizzled with olive oil, and then covered in finely chopped tomatoes with a sprinkling of salt and oregano on the top.
Until recently Cretan Diet was simple and wholesome.
Natural products like olive oil, olives, fresh fruits & vegetables, bread, pulses, honey, cheese, a little meat and a little more fish.

Article by George Portokalakis

Olive tree is identified with Greek civilization and history.

A gift to Athenians from Goddess Athena, olive tree, was and remains a symbol of peace and life, and commonly regarded as ‘holy’ among ancient Greeks.

It is also suspected according to archaeological findings (sculptures, statuses and artworks) dated at the Minoan era of Crete, a pre-Greek civilization age, that the mythical Snake Goddess gave the olive tree as a present to Minoans the moment of her birth at the shores of river Triton on Crete island «Μυθολογούσι δε και την Αθηνάν κατά την Κρήτη εκ Διός εν ταις πηγαίς του Τρίτωνος ποταμού γεννηθήναι…» (Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης, 5,72).

Olive oil and olives, fed for thousands of years Greeks, and keep providing us with their priceless produce.

As Crete boasts of the unique culture and cuisine and Cretans knows that they have the finest gastronomical, tasty and healthy solutions proved and signed by the medicalscience society (Cretan Traditional Mediterranean Cuisine and Nutrition), this weekend food and wandering break is an excellent way of experiencing the all the aspects in one + one exciting day out.

Spend two fabulous days discovering the sights, sounds and flavours of Crete. Tastes unique, mouth watering and above all, all those given with a smile coming deep from their heart…

You will experience the best street food of Heraklion, the beautiful sight of the palace of Knossos, the delightful taste of Cretan Shepherds traditional cuisine in the mountains of Crete. This unforgettable journey into the cultural and gastronomic heart of Crete will satisfy every appetite.

Price per person: $498

Based on minimum: 2 persons

NOTICE: Week end can be extended as many days as visitors wish. Each extra day charged $249

On Your Dates: Email us with your desired date. (All Year round)

Additional information: minimum participation 2 persons

NOTICE:

SOLO TRAVELERS CAN BOOK THE TOUR ON PRIVATE - TAILOR MADE BY PAYING THE COST OF TWO PERSONS. When you book, reserve space for two persons.

Vegetarian Food Tour in Greece

Join the Cretan hospitality! Cretans says that we have the finest gastronomical, tasty and healthy solutions proved and signed by the medical science society. Wild green pies, spinach pies, Raw veggies salads, Veggies in the pot or in oven Cretan traditional way, cooked a way only Cretans do, and much more. Enjoy food and cooking class that blend all the secrets particular of Crete and let you enjoy & learn about them first-hand alongside the locals.

FOODS FROM CRETE WITH CHEF Suzanne Vandyck

Pictures and foods are credit to the Cretes friend SOMMELIER and CULINARY EDUCATOR AND CHEF Suzanne Vandyck during her last two CULINARY & WINE ADVENTURES ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE. Suzanne Vandyck offer a food and wine experiences that make her guests fall in love with Ccretan culture, the foods and above all the people. Suzanne Vandyckmakes groups limited to only 6 people to allow intimate and private travel experience

THANK YOU FOR VISITING
George Portokalakis
MORE FOTOS HERE!!!!!!!

In the Cretan kitchen all foods based on Goat cheese (Chevre cheese) called “Mizithra” (salted, sour or unsalted) are very popular.

One of them are the “Mizithropitakia” little semicircular Mizithra cheese pies considered more as dessert which are fried and thanks to the imagination of the Cretan women the result in these little cheese pies is as pretty as it is savoury!

There are many ways of preparing these cheese pies and according the region having different names as well as “kalitsounia”, “nerates mizithropites “ , “agnopites”, “sarikopites”, “sfakianopites” depending the shape they give but here we follow one of them the kalitsounia from Heraklion region.

We serve them with honey or sugar and cinnamon

ENJOY!

I am George Portokalakis a passionate about Cretan food and culture and love to share this passion with my guests.

After spending over 40 years in the travel industry and cooking business, I would tell anyone willing to listen about the wonders of Cretan cuisine, the family warmth of the Cretan people, share the delights of Cretan cuisine and culture with few people who appreciate good, fresh, natural and healthy cooking and love slow food!

In areas little known to foreign tourism, you will learn the art of Cretan cuisine in a delightful country setting. Your instructors will be my self and native farm house ladies of the near region.

You will taste the best Cretan traditional foods - Vegetarian and non - that Crete has to offer and you will experience a way of life that very few foreigners will have the chance to experience

The packages we give, offer you the opportunity to enjoy the regional cuisine of Crete, as well as learn to prepare dishes from native farm house ladies and myself.

Produced and created by talented Mr. Tarre Mike guest and dear friend of George Portokalakis founder of Porto Club travel services

Mike had the kindness to give Porto Club the authorization to upload this film on You Tube so anyone could see the beauty of Greece and the hospitality of the Greek people.

Tarre family spend 14 days in Greece 4 days Athens and Mainland, 7 days the island of Crete and 3 days in Santorini.

Beginning their journey in Greece, Tarre family, (Mike, Judy and their grand daughter Erica) was greeted by the Porto Club Athens ground travel partners and under the guidance and care of Porto Club Tours.

Porto Club Tours is a partner of Active Gourmet Holidays, one of the largest culinary travel companies in the USA.

Through Active Gourmet Holidays, travelers can discover the best Foodie and Leisure secrets Greece has to offer – and Porto Club Tours is definitely one of the best ways to experience Greece.

If in your future plans is a visit to Greece, you have to book with Active Gourmet Holidays and the local Greek partner Porto Club Tours, both, really knows how to treat their guests!
Contact Active Gourmet Holidays at joann@activegourmetholidays.com and Porto Club tours at portoclub@cyta.gr, you won’t regret it!

14 days / 13 nights

Pricing

$5.794

(For One Person, Double Occupancy based on 2 people)

Single use: + $884

THE ICON PAINTING & WOODCARVING EXPERIENCE

A R T I S T B I O G R A P H Y

The Cretan icon painter Dimitrios E. Manousakis born and grew up in Heraklion, Crete. Since his young age he showed a talent for Art, mixed media and especially painting. At the age of 15 Icon painting gain him. He began his studies at the Cretan Byzantine school of icon painting and at the same time was experimenting with various ways of painting, as well as studying them. (Icons, frescoes, paintings, portraits etc.) Always experimenting, he traveled for some time as a seaman in ships throughout the world. He extended his experiences and art techniques studying icon painting at the Mount Athos and other parts of Greece. Sometime later his dwellings stop. He return back to Cretegot married and sets up his own icon painting workshop. During his pursuits he got a great knowledge of wood and woodcarving,

4 days / 3 nights

CRETE

Why see Greece from behind a window? Experience the life.

Wall Painting- Frescoes: Wall paintings of Byzantine Churches

Excursions / visits to selected forgotten churches in country side, small villages and monasteries to view the art of wall painting created hundreds of years ago, survived through centuries, wars, storms, earthquakes and the elements of nature in combination with culture, good company, and very good food fresh – natural home made by local house ladies following old traditional methods according the healthy CRETAN MEDITERRANEAN NUTRITION

COOKING HOLIDAYS IN CRETE: NOW'S THE TIME TO BOOK!!!

Dear friends,

Good day from Crete-

Greece

and PORTO CLUB Food, Wine, Culture and Cooking Holidays

Despite of what you may hear or read, Greece remains one of the TOP HOLIDAY destinations, offering numerous opportunities for unforgettable travel experiences

Thousands of travellers share this as we speak, in our country, in a totally safe and pleasant environment, enjoying their holidays in Greece, the Greek Islands, mainland and certainly our island Crete!!!

Grab the opportunity now to join the very special offer with PORTO CLUB

Food and Wine Tous in Crete

AN IDEAL TOUR THAT WILL SATISFY EVERY WINE LOVER!

Vegetarian Food Tour in Greece

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