Newsletter Zorbas Island Crete Greece 2025: Through this newsletter, we would like to keep you updated on news for a holiday in Crete in 2025.

This year too, we do not have a fixed arrival and departure day. You can therefore arrive and leave any day and stay for the number of days you wish (minimum stay in high season is a week).

For flight tickets, the earlier you book, the cheaper it usually is. If you would like more information on tickets and prices, please email zorbasisland@gmail.com.

Agenda for Crete – Season 2025: Another full programme with all kinds of (new) excursions or existing ones with beautiful new routes.

E4 hiking weeks 2025: we have put together a whole new E4 route for 2025. We will go to Zakros (East Crete) in April (5 days) and November (4 days) and to Phoenix (South-West Crete) in May (4 days).

Even if you have been to one of these locations before, there will be new hikes too!

Greek Easter in 2025

In 2025 Greek Easter and Catholic Easter are on the same date: 20 April!

From Friday, 18 April, we will have the Easter programme: On Friday (18 April 2025) we will do a tour through the interior of Crete with many Easter activities, in non-touristy areas. We will go to a village where the crucifixion of Christ is recreated. This is a Greek ritual for Easter and symbolises Christ’s suffering on the cross.

In the evening, join us in the mountain village of Anopolis where an Easter procession takes place. The villagers walk from the church behind the symbolic tomb of Christ through the village streets.

On Saturday, 19 April, we will paint Easter eggs. In the evening, we walk to the church in the village. There we collect the holy fire which is spread by the priest and those present. At midnight, there are fireworks and a Judas doll is burned.

On Sunday 20 April (Easter Sunday), we have an elaborate Greek Easter BBQ at the end of the afternoon with music. Read more

Painting workshop on Crete

26 to 30 May 2025

Painting workshop on Crete, Greece: this week, we will organise a special 5-day painting workshop open to all, with or without painting experience.

During this workshop, we will create different paintings: intuitive portraits, nature and villages. There will be sketching with charcoal and painting with acrylic paint. And this special workshop will be given by artist Lies Apon.

At the end of the week, there will be an exhibition at Zorbas of all the work of the participants.

It will be a week full of cultural Crete and nature visiting the real bits of Crete with some painting workshops in our own olive grove. Read more

Jeep safari

17 and 18 June 2025: a 2-day jeep safari to South-Crete where we spend the night. This way we see a lot of Crete, driving a lot off-road and sometimes on the asphalt.

Island hopping from Crete to Ios: We depart from Heraklion’s Venetian harbour and go through Santorini’s caldera overlooking Thera and Oia. We then continue past the lava island of Thirasia. From there, we go to Ios.

A 4-day trip to Ios. On Ios, we do several different trips. We visit the island of Sikinos and go by boat around Folegandros.

On day 1 we go with the ferry from Heraklion, via Santorini to Ios. Here we stay in a luxuruous villa. We visit Ios-town before we head to the villa.

On day 2 we explore the island of Ios.

Day 3: we make a boat trip to the island of Sikinos and go around Folegandros. At the end of the day we go back to Ios.

On the last day we visit Ios-town again before we go back to Crete.

4 days Unknown Crete Chania

 We stay in a luxuruous villa near Chania-town.

Day 1: we leave around 6 am from Zorbas to go to West-Crete. We drive through the inland to Perivolia where we stay the next days.

Day 2: visit to Paleochora and Kandanos. We visit these 2 villages in Southwest-Crete.

Day 3: we leave early to take the boat to Balos, from Kissamos. We go past the uttermost peninsula of Crete. We see the fortress island Gramvousa, where the Barbarossa fortress is located.

Day 4: we leave Chania again. We visit either the botanical gardens of Crete or we go to Chania-town. We leave early to be ahead of the crowds. After this we drive back to Zorbas.

Greek cooking holiday

A 4-day cooking holiday in Crete, enjoying the outdoors. This multi-day cooking workshop consists of 3 days of cooking and 1 day of an excursion Unknown Crete. The cooking workshops take place in our own olive field and once at Zorbas by the sea. We also visit a local market. Read more

The 2024 olive harvest has now taken place. It was a great year with good quality oil. So if you also want to enjoy delicious extra virgin olive oil, order your cans here.

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Newsletter Zorbas Island Crete Greece 2025