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Chania Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Chania, Greece
Back to civilization - Crete style
This is a top pick! (C) (S) When he says civilization, he means it. Chania (Hania) is a Venetian city and beautiful. Our campground is fine (definitely not camping No Problem, but there seem to be less German/American vs. English fist fights in the middle of the night AND ...
Girls Lunch
This is a top pick! ... about how glad she was to have been encouraged to study abroad. Blink Blink said she had always felt a special call to Greece, and then this opportunity came along that fit perfectly with her communication major. We all started crying, moved to ...
Leaving Chania Harbor
This is a top pick! I am at a loss for words to describe the exhilaration of the boat ride. The harbor was beautiful as we pulled away and rounded the lighthouse. We passed a rocky outcropping where a special herd of endangered goats were the only ones inhabiting the ...
Snorkeling
This is a top pick! The wind caressed our faces as the boat chugged out into the Bay of Crete. Our first stop was the site of an underwater German plane that crashed during World War II. The students put on snorkel gear and swam out to look at the wreckage. When they ...
ELIMINATE THE OIKOYENEIA
This is a top pick! ... , and we will stop exploiting the less fortunate. The world will care for us, and we for the world. ... More on all this, and more on Greece to come ... - peace, Modern Oddyseus Much thanks to friend Costas for the place to sleep in ...
Beautiful Tylissos
This is a top pick! The route to our next site, Tylissos (till-ISS-ohs), was a gorgeous drive up through the vineyards of Cretan hill country. This is the first location where the surrounding scenery was so beautiful it was difficult to train our eyes on the ancient ...
SQUATTING WITH ANARCHISTS
This is a top pick! ... wasn't going well. I wasn't writing. I couldn't grow a cool, bushy moustache like Babis. I considered leaving Crete and Greece altogether. Before I made my decision, an English girl named Sam came to stay at the squat for a night. Sam lived in a ...
George the Buckled-In Bear
This is a top pick! Our thoughts turned to the end of the excursion and going back to Athens, and we concluded we could not bear to leave Crete. On the bus ride that took us from the hotel to the ferry, students Papia and Bellingham made up a funny song about the trip to ...
My Dinner
This is a top pick! ... and Delphi. Many of the students left dinner and proceeded to the clubs, where the Chanians were more than happy to dance well before 3AM. I, on the other hand, walked along the stunning Chania harbor with Basil looking at the shops and the ...
Morning in Chania
This is a top pick! ... all twirling and clacking their new strings of beads. If you're reading this blog for vacation ideas, allow me to recommend Chania. I can just imagine walking along the harbor with Bear, stopping in all the shops, lazing on the beach, fattening on ...
Archaeologist in Action
This is a top pick! On the walk from the hotel to the Archaeological Museum of Chania, we passed three different sites of archaeological digs situated between regular houses in residential areas. The owner of a house would decide to demolish it, and underneath they found ...
Octopus Sarcophagus
This is a top pick! The Archaeological Museum of Chania is located in an old Christian basilica. We walked around looking at the pottery, sculptures, jewelry, and mosaics, in addition to the beautiful architecture of the building itself. Indy told us about another ...
Pristine Beach
This is a top pick! The second time the boat stopped, we were facing a tiny island now uninhabited, but with a beach unusually clean and empty. This time I got in the water. I swam out with the students from the boat to the beach. I've never been submerged in salt water ...
Dinner Crepes
This is a top pick! With salt in our hair and sitting on damp swimsuits, we went back to the same taverna on the waterfront to reclaim our discount for dinner. This time, I had a savory crepe filled with grilled vegetables and cheese (I shared the second veggie crepe with ...
MY INDIVIDUAL DREAMS
This is a top pick! ... (soccer) kicks and had a creative slam-dunk contest into an intertube. -- All right, now we're finally starting to talk about Greece! ... but, this is the end of the story? That was ALL interjection! huh? who's writing this, anyway? ahwkk, bye! ...
AN INTERN FOR EPI?
This is a top pick! ... time we hung out was really nice; we met at a bar. I drank wine, and she had a beer called "Mythos." (Everything in Greece is called, "Mythos.") It was one of those situations where we were just laughing and smiling and feeling good the whole easy time. ...
Seeing Crete with the Locals
... are staying with a Greek girl named Marya, who we met while traveling here in Crete. She invited us to share her apartment here in Chania, and she has been showing us around town to some of her favorite places. She took us for lunch at a local café where ...
Food, Food, and More Food
June 20, 2012 Due to there being no class this week, I was able to go to Terra Creta Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Also, Fotis is not here this week, so it has been Manolis and Kostas picking me up in the morning. And this morning ...
Exploration
... ' specialty that Greeks are known for. Anyway, this cafe offers free wi-fi and makes one of the best Frappe's I have had in Greece, so naturally I have become a regular. As in every city and town in Greece, there are many many churches here in ...
Goats and Lobster
... ’ offices and not a single one of them was open. Typical Greece right? We ended up at a private clinic (very rare for Greece), and were able to get one doctor to look at my hand. He deemed it inflamed, not infected, and told me to put ...
Athens to Crete
... are pockets of loveliness scattered all over the place. The apartment we rented was in a neighborhood called Illuopoli (almost everything in Greece is difficult or impossible to pronounce) and was quite nice. Not fancy by a long shot but not run down ...
Chania... Now this is how you holiday
Our first encounter with Chania is to get completely lost in the maze of streets that is the new town (in our defense I quote sleep deprivation, park benches are not that comfy). So we have no chance whatsoever in the old town where metre wide streets ...
Cameras and Mourning
June 23, 2012 Yesterday I slept in after a very active Saturday. I then stretched out and went about my day. By ‘went about my day’, I mean I lamented the loss of my camera, wallowed in my feta and olive oil, and then did ...
Baklava+Backpack=Big Mess.
Arriving at the port is chaotic, you come out of the metro and theres the harbor with massive ships docked and lots of them. A big electronic sign tells you which gate to go to. The boats are so far apart you have to get on a bus to take you ...
Safe harbor
... plane. Very surreal sitting in an empty aircraft with the flight attendants. Soon the bus arrives, the plane fills and we land in Chania around 6.30. 15 hours later than I'd planned. Crete is around 200 km from Athens and it's been a 20-hour voyage. ...
Tools and Tours
July 25, 2012 Yesterday, the other Katerina from accounting drove me home. We had to stop and pick up her insurance book from a friend in Agios Apostoli. So, after we picked up her book, she decided to give me a driving tour around the area's beaches. ...
One Night at The Doge Hotel
Arriving in Chania near dawn as I did yesterday, I missed a few of the nightlife and the appointments of my room. Both worth a few words here after my first night. The Doge (or Dodgy, as I prefer to think of it now) is one of many old Venetian houses ...
Cake and Candles
July 14, 2012 After my Greek lesson this morning and some lunch, I was picked up by Fotis, his wife Maria, and son Nassos for another day at the beach. Today is Fotis’s 34th birthday, so he organized a day at his favorite beach, ...
Crete!
... incredible. I would definitely recommend it to anyone traveling to Greece. It is nice to be home though and to have enough time to get ready for classes tomorrow! Only 7 weeks left in Greece! I can't believe it!!! Love and miss you all, ...