No One Warned Me About the Cheese Pies: A Not-So-Sacred Stop on the Way to Artemis

An unexpected roadside myth, a treacherous drive, and the winding path toward ancient goddess worship in Crete.

Sometimes the goddess hides her treasures behind the most hellish roads imaginable.

I’ve driven a lot of questionable roads for the Artemis Mapping Project. Dirt paths pretending to be highways, goat trails with delusions of grandeur, even cliffside tracks that made me whisper promises to Artemis just to survive the descent. But nothing, and I mean nothing, prepared me for the road to Prinias.