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I am now reporting from the eastern part of Crete, where the landscape becomes drier and rockier, and the roads that lie along the shimmering sea taunt drivers as they twist, turn, and snake, hugging each mountain’s curves and doubling the amount of time it takes to get from one village to the next.

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The rugged coastline of eastern Crete, somewhere between the modern city of Agios Nikolaos and the ancient city of Gournia

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