Artists create, love and learn on the idyllic Greek island of Crete and in Paris.

Paul Heidelberg is a writer, poet and artist, and a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. He has had a writing website since 1998 (www.paulheidelberg.com) that features the prose and poetry work "Paris, Prague and Salzburg: A Remembrance," written in each of those cities with a laptop computer in 1999. Heidelberg's writing has been published in such magazines and newspapers as "Art & Antiques," "Sports Illustrated," "The Wine News," "Wine Enthusiast," "The Miami Herald," "The Philadelphia Inquirer" and "The Orange County Register."