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Stories from Heraklion and Crete: places, history and things you only understand after two weeks of holiday. Guido lives and works between Hamburg and Heraklion. Articles are in German.

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7.8 million ghost sheep: how Crete became the epicentre of EU subsidy fraud

7.8 million sheep and goats were registered on Crete that never existed. How a network cheated the EU out of hundreds of millions of euros, and why a vaccination campaign exposed the scandal.

Guido Mitschke · 7 Mar 2026 · in German

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Plateia Kornarou, Heraklion: history, Bembo fountain, sebil

On a few square metres, Venetian and Ottoman history meet: the Bembo fountain, the sebil and the memory of a Gothic church demolished in 1970.

Guido Mitschke · 7 Mar 2026 · in German

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