A Place In The Sun's Craig Rowe has shared a chilling tale of a 'scary' and 'harrowing' car ordeal that occurred while he was navigating rural Greece using his phone's map app. The beloved presenter has returned for a new series of the popular Channel 4 property programme, yet Craig confessed he once thought a particular filming experience might be his last after his vehicle became trapped on a slope in a secluded village, leading to a dramatic rescue by local police and firefighters. In an exclusive chat with the Mirror, Craig recalled: "In Crete last year, I picked up a car from the airport, just a little basic car, it wasn't very powerful - to say it had the power of a sewing machine would probably be overstating.
"Anyway, I picked up this car, I obviously would have picked another car but I got there so late so I had to get the car that was available. The reason I would have picked another car isn't because I'm being fancy, it's because some of the roads are really really bad and there's lots of loose gravel. They're mountain roads, when you come up from the beach and go inland, they're basically mountain roads and you need a good car! "Anyway, I was going to a property, I was going to meet the team at a property to do the filming.
I was following maps [on my phone], which again I would caution people when you're on an island as the remote part of the island, sometimes the map just isn't right. Anyway, this map told me to go left, then told me to go right, you know when y.