European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Caves Are free food is cheap and living is easy for Janet Carrier and Jim Mckiernan who share Cave. Continued from pane 11 companion red haired Janet Carrier from new Jersey a Type of housekeeping arrangement which makes no one at Matala raise his eyebrows. Not that there is much in the Way of Noin making. Life is reduced to the Barest necessities. The Sun shines the year around the swimming is great the natives Are Friendly. Local products like oranges olives Goat cheese and wine including the grim tasting retsina come cheap and so does an occasional meal at Vafinis toe Village tavern and mail pickup. Out Here said Levy you begin to realize How Little Man actually needs Page 12 to get by. Hell you can live on 50 cents week if you have to or care to. I Don t. I Don t believe in  leading the visitors up to his Rock pad on the second or third floor he explained he even kept a car parked Down at the Village. He had bought it when he came to Europe and uses i about once a week for a shopping run to Iraklion or occasionally when some one on the Rock is in need of medical attention. That s the Only thing bad about being out Here you can t afford to get sick he said. The other Day a Guy had a Little trouble with Bis kerosene stove audit burned his Side. We had to get him to a Hospital fast and so it s Good i someone has some kind of transport  Road to Iraklion the most inv portent town on the Island and Home of the air Force s 6031st Security group winds North across the arid Girth of Crete for some 50 Miles a trip that normally takes a couple of hours zeus willing. They say zeus the godfather i greek mythology was born on Snow capped mount Ida Crete s highest Moun Tain. But oven assuming he was Able to read the Road signs All greek tothe average tourist chances Are he did t make it Down to Matala very often what with brutal potholes Rock Cave dwellers fear toll Rist invasion is on ways a photos by sch Gates a i just live Jim Mckiernan tells visitors. I heavy surf can put Damper on Patio living n lower caves. The stars and stripes the Leviton prodvcr.5fv Ivy takes of time off from the a a tue Doy few cry 11, 1w9 slides herds of sheep blocking Progress and very Good Odds of losing a Muffler somewhere Between mires and put Sidla not quite Man High Levy s Cave nonetheless turned out to be surprisingly Roomy and featured two bunks carved into the Rock and covered with air mat  ledge served As a shelf for the groceries and other Basic necessities apiece of curtain covered the Entrance and there was even Wall to Wall carpet ing a Large grass mat. The place looked so clean and Well kept that the visiting smokers were fear Ful of dropping ashes on the floor and looked around for an ashtray. Levy produced one an empty tin can. A beat up guitar was leaning against the Wall but Levy said he was t a musician. It belongs to another fellow with whom i m sharing the Cave he said inviting his guests to sit on the floor. Then Levy sprung his Little  Home in civilian life he said he is a successful producer of television commercials and documentaries with several big accounts to his  Day 1 just decided to take some time off from the rat race and do some Raveling in Europe to gain a new perspective he said. Then i a Pae Down the stars and strikes Here to Matala and liked it so Well 1stayed. Call it a kind of withdrawal into my self if you will. You Don t give a Damn about anything out Here you just live with yourself and nature and you find out a lot of things about  the afternoon wore on Levy s visit ors got up and apologized for having to leave to make it Back to Iraklion before dark. Levy grinned see what Imean but the return trip obviously no longer had the Blessing of Zenji the Muffler did fall off somewhere Between mires and pats idea and darkness had already settled when we finally pulled up at our Iraklion hotel. 13