However, we don’t want to narrate a fairy tale, we want to urge you to live your life as a fairy tale, in a place that we don’t claim is the « navel of earth », but we allege it is a place where nature and spirit meet. A hospitable and beautiful region which underlines the conventional reality of our lives, « a place of love », that against the blatancy of time, brutality, emptiness, pseudo-culture of populism retains its values and ideals, teaching civilization, offering not just «life »but «quality of life». In this blessed place we live, and we invite you, « to dock in harbor » to hear its breath and smile, to let its days and nights to embrace you, the aroma of night flowers and jasmine to intoxicate you, to feel the warmth of the smile of its people, to walk the beautiful villages accompanied by greetings of “good morning” and “goodnight” of unknown passersby, to make you feel as if you have finally returned ... here to your home.

Here we know what quality of life means. Here the day, with dew drops, paints your eyes. The sunset fires you with colors. The night… velvet witch… takes you off.

Here we don’t let joy give its place to cynicism, as we know, hot to talk with laughter, an international language that doesn’t need translation. Here we turn our joys and sorrows into song and dance and "mantinades" (CRETAN PROVERBS). Here you discover what pride means. Pride, not in a sense of brashness or overriding arrogance, but instead in the sense of self-respect, personal dignity, uniqueness, ethos, politeness and quality.

Here you put together your scattered “wants” and anchor them. Here you choose to build your dream. Here you re-define what life means.

Life with quality.

Elena and Anastasia Oikonomaki & Associates