So, first a very happy new year to you, I wish you all the best. And of course keep coming back to this page. I just checked my site statistics for the year 2008 and saw that the 'Daily photo of Crete' pages were viewed about 400.000 times. It's really nice and encouraging to see that people are looking at my stuff and coming back for more.
The photo at the top was taken in Stavros (Akrotiri peninsula) looking out towards the Rodopou peninsula (which you can see in the background with Cape Spatha to the right).
The photo below is me taking that picture. I haven't become really fat, I only look like this because I am wearing a down jacket. It's really cold here at the moment.