Article: Holiday special: Meet & Crete; Island meal got off with a bang.(Features)

Byline: ALAN RIMMER

THE mountain air was crystal clear and the heavy scent of Mediterranean blooms drifted lazily through the taverna. Suddenly the calm was shattered by a volley of gunfire, three nerve-jangling bangs, loud - and very close.

As we sat transfixed a man who could have stepped straight from the screen in Zorba the Greek emerged from the kitchen in a haze of gunpowder smoke.

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