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The best of Crete
Because we'd been sick, I hadn’t had the time or energy to organize how we would get from Crete to Santorini & on to Bodrum in Turkey, so we had a travel agent do all the bookings. If we had been here just a couple of weeks earlier, there were regular ferries to Santorini and Bodrum. No more. The next ferry to Santorini was on Sunday & …
Tourists in Heraklion
This is unfortunately our last day in Crete and we decide to spend it in Heraklion with a visit to its very famous museum. The museum is actually under refurbishment at the moment but thank god they had a temporary exhibition set-up next door. Mum would have ...
Rethymnon & Phaestos
Today we spent the morning in Rethymnon, a lovely town about 60km East of Heraklion. We like Rethymnon way more than Heraklion. There is a lovely market in the old town and a beautiful little harbour area whit loads of restaurants by the water. Highly recommended!!! After spending a few hours in town we head for lunch in a little village by the sea, called Ayia Gallini. Food is nice and prices are good too. A nice place to stop for a bite. Next step, ...
Coastal Road to Panormo
... to the airport. Needless to say the trip back with Chris and Daniela is much more successful and we find the hotel first time, and arrive back just in time for a couple of aperitifs and dinner in the main restaurant, which is a buffet style affair, as the only other restaurant open tonight was the Italian :-) Off to bed early as looking forward to some more open top driving across the island to the quieter south ...
Heraklion - get us off this island!
... subtitles - no dubbing! No wonder their English is so good. It was a strange feeling emerging from the movies thinking you were in London or Australia, then suddenly realising that no-one was speaking English and the buildings didn't look English - oh yes, we were in Greece! The movie must have been good, to confuse us like that.
So now, we are finally out of Crete and onto our next adventure - island hopping on the ...