For all of you who can’t get enough of the nice pictures which go with this very worthwhile project, just love animals and/or Crete here are some more pics of ~ our volunteers…hardworking & relaxing once in a while as we have to keep them sweet ~ stunning views…as driving across Crete always gives amazing [...]
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Our Friday continues and we now continue to a completely new area, the district of Amariou in Rethymnon Province. We have some difficulty finding these villages, whose residents contacted us following our press release in Heraklion newspapers prior to the start of the Outreach week. With the help of the local village priest we find donkeys who are in [...]
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On Wednesday we make a nice early start on our way to the south and the Messara area but first a stop in Archanes to see a new donkey, rescued by a kind Greek lady and now having a lovely life amongst olive groves with a beautiful view to the bay of Heraklion. Both the feet [...]
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As it has already been almost 3 months ago that the Equine Outreach project took place (17 - 22 October 2011) and we will only now report to you about it we can just as well start the report in a different way than you are used to… So let us start by thanking Garry Draper [...]
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…will soon be coming… … έρχονται σύντομα… a little bit more patience please λίγη ακόμα υπομονή παρακαλούμε
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Everywhere we go the grateful owners want to give us raki or buy us coffee. Of course we are very happy that they are so pleased with our work but if we began drinking raki at 9.30 am I don’t think we would see many more donkeys! In one village we were asked if we [...]
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On their last day, as our team get ready for the airport we have a call that the donkeys seen the previous afternoon are limping and some blood was seen in the yard area. We leave early for the airport so that we can call and check ———all donkeys are walking fine and there is [...]
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Unfortunately the 4th May was Agia Pelagia’s Day and as one of the scheduled villages was celebrating this day we had to continue to our next stop, further along our route returning here the following day. Although this was time consuming we were very glad to visit this village as the donkeys really needed treatment [...]
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After our team enjoy a well-earned overnight stop we join with Barbara again for some visits she has arranged. After treating a few horses and some donkeys in need we felt pleased with our good start to the day until arriving at a village where the expected number of donkeys was not visible. Unfortunately some [...]
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