{"id":976,"date":"2026-10-15T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:33:50","slug":"august-until-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"August until October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was back in Crete from mid-August, after a very hot and dry summer in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To sum up, this is how things were here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the second half of August, all the coastal villages were bustling with activity. Greek and Italian visitors made up the majority. The sea was very pleasant (27\u00b0C), but it was too hot for hiking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For the second time, I attended the Greek Language Summer School in Ierapetra, where I met up with old friends and made progress with my Greek.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>September began very warm and dry, with water temperatures around 25\u00b0C. Unfortunately, there were also several bushfires in eastern Crete, which, thankfully, were far away and quickly brought under control.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By the end of September, the house was fully booked. Together with my guests, I went on a few hikes, enjoyed the most beautiful bays and showed them the special features of eastern Crete.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The weekly music evenings down at the Taverna Exipiretisis are a particular delight. If you stick it out long enough, you\u2019ll see the locals really let their hair down\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On 23 September, it rained for the first time after four (!) months of drought. The heavy rainfall in early October was exceptional: within 60 hours, 220 mm of rain fell where I live \u2013 that\u2019s a full bathtube per square metre! This resulted in localised flooding, landslides and road closures. A week later, everything was back to normal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By mid-October, sea temperatures were still around 23\u00b0. Swimmers were seen everyday, although the weather was rather changeable for a few days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-121913-768x479-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-121913-768x479-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-01-121913-768x479-1-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was back in Crete from mid-August, after a very hot and dry summer in Switzerland. To sum up, this is how things were here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,26,28],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autumn","tag-end-of-summer","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carobgarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}