Colourful Crete

THE village artists have been out and about in force for this season. Pano Hersonissos has never looked so spruce as the season gets underway with many of the restaurants having a make-over for the season. It really started in the winter-time when one of the oldest kafenion’s Costas started by having new stonework installed inside, followed by a new corner fire and then new kitchens on the ground floor and a circular stairway to connect it. He followed by with new tables and painted the chairs creams and browns, really standing out from the crowd.
  This must have stunned some of the others as they picked up on what was happening. One, called Konaki was finally taken back from two Dutchmen, and, quite rightly is back as a Greek outlet instead of the european offerings before, and they spent a great deal of time and money on ripping out all the bad and installing new kitchens, painting all the chairs for outside as well as new tables.
  Further around the square the souvlaki establishment went to town with the outside newly painted and some excellent representations of his food hand painted on the walls. But the prize for all the top effort goes to Taverna Margo.
  It has been transported into a calm oasis of green chairs and tables, all hand painted. A superb new sign topped off by a new menu, all from fresh meats and fish (unlike some others in the square)  from an owner and his wife trying hard to make a success in a very competetive industry.