Old lady dressed in black with stooped back walks through the lanes of hill top village near Elounda in the heat of a June day, Crete, Greece
During the early 1900s, Elounda acted as a stopping off point for lepers being transported to the leper colony at Spinalonga. Elounda was used for the filming of the popular BBC television series Who Pays the Ferryman? in the late 1970s. It is the setting for the Belinda Jones novel Out of the Blue. It features in Victoria Hislop's novel The Island, the novel is also being adapted for Greek television, set to air as a mini series starting in October 2010. village Elounda used in TV series "To Nisi" (The Island) During the early 1900s, Elounda acted as a stopping off point for lepers being transported to the leper colony at Spinalonga. Many villages still retain the ' old ' way of life - men in the cafeneons sipping Greek coffee and raki while women gather outside their homes, crocheting and gossiping together. These are mostly older people,the younger generations having moved out of villages to the more 'sophisticated' town life.
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Location: old Elounda Crete Greece
Photo credit: © Gary Blake / Alamy / Afripics
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