One week today we left home and we have already been here there and everywhere. Driving in Crete has been a baptism of fire. There has only been one other time in my life where I wanted to get out of the car and walk and that was in a blizzard in the snow fields without chains. BUT we survived and have had an interesting time exploring the island. Day one of car we headed to the remote west coast and found a lovely beach. We were swimming in the mediterranean and the water was so clear and cool. After that came the nightmare we headed to a remote mountain town where there is a restaurant run by an old woman and her husband. Food out of this world authentic greek but the drive was so treacherous on the way up that we had mountain goats sleeping in the shade of the cliff on the side of the road no guard rails just a sheer drop off the cliff - an experience to say the least. Thank god for the home made wine( I wasn't driving) at lunch to get me back down the mountain taking pics all the way to take mind off the trip poor Mez needed a few when we finally got back hard work this driving.
Day 2 decided to go to Rethimno about 60k. Would have normally taken a local about 1 hour max took us 3 hour round trip as we spent at least an hour in Chania lost. We have been lost every day in the car and also have to take a map walking. One of the major problems is that the name on the map does not match the one on the side of the street. They have a unique way of changing the names of everything.
Today Day 3 we went to a lovely beach that was the setting for the movie Zorba the Greek- Stavros Beach. Beautiful day everything going swimmingly only to find I had left without swimmers thank god for the trusty sarong as I swam in my clothes and relaxed in only a sarong- perfect.
One more day in Crete and then to Santorini.
Chania is definitely worth a visit.
Hope you are all well and happy.
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| No not a play area this is how you access the beach |
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| 4 pieces of ply and you have a change room on the beach |
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| beach chairs, change room at west coast beach |
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| Squid drying in the local car park for the restaurant |
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| restaurant that we gained lots of more grey hairs for but worth it on mountain |
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| goat track to restaurant |
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| view from the car heading down mountain and this was the wide section |
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