Tersanas Village
Travel Blogs from Chorafakia
Kisamos et la plage de Balos
... Notre rythme cardiaque augmente, et nous nous demandons si nous sommes dans la bonne direction. Les chèvres et leurs clochettes égayent notre chemin. Nous atteignons finalement un stationnement rocailleux, où il n'y a qu'une seule auto. Un sentier qui semble aller nulle part pointe vers la plage de Balos. Après quelques minutes de marche nous arrivons devant un escalier qui descend vers un magnifique lagon. Au loin, ...
No fixed abode so a week in Crete
... hour and it never turned up. We found out afterwards that it only ran on certain days and it seems that Monday was not one of them. We tried again on Thursday only to be told that they stopped the previous day as that was the end of the Summer season.Try again in April! By this time I think Lou and I could have conducted our own tour as we had power walked around the town so many times in an effort to shake off some of the calories we ...
Crete
We stayed in Heraklion, the largest city in Crete on the first night we arrived. We arrived so late we opted to stay in and order room service. Actually the food was good and the room was comfortable and nice so it was a good decision. Early the next morning we got up for breakfast, signed the contract for our rental car and departed for a day long drive/tour of the island of Crete; Crete is a rather big island. Our tour began with a visit to Knossos, a ruin of a Minoan ...
A Walter prattle. Something to Crete? Perhaps?
... person has mastered tiger style kung-fu and is looking to use it. I'm stupid and obviously on edge. Strangely, I don't recall foreigners looking this way back in the states. Most of the time they look happy and take pictures of the mall. What if they were to look uneasy? Someone would rob them, I'd say. Like a pit stain shows the world you're too hot, uneasiness shows the world you're packing some ...
Athens to Crete
... to the beach, the ocean never goes on strike..." Luckily we took his advice. There was indeed a strike in downtown Athens. The public service sector was protesting wage and pension cuts. As we all know, Greece is in financial straights right now and is trying to fund their own recovery by cutting government spending, among various other things. And of course public service employees aren't too happy about it. While we were at the beach enjoying the Mediterranean, ...