Kastro Hotel

... .  "Zorbita the GPS"  guided the party of 4, tugging our luggage, to the hotel.      The Kastro Hotel is in the old city (very narrow roads), decent but way not fancy but with an extraordinarily helpful desk manager who arranged ...

... credit card working and then found an internet cafe!  Things were looking up! We found a decent looking place to stay in (Kastro Hotel) on hostelbookers.com and opted to wander around there to see if we could get it a bit cheaper than on the ...

... a bit of imagination.  It didn't seem as authentic as the old crumbly ruins we have been seeing.     Back to the Kastro Hotel, the same we stayed in the first night in Iraklion and we were ready to settle in and prepare to take the ferry ...

... a refined look to it while still retaining the local flavor that tourists want. It was the perfect balance. I visited the Kastro which was a stockade started in 1212 to defend the island from pirate attacks. The interior of the Kastro had flower-filled ...

... of innocently enough. We had met 2 Canadian gals Linda & Glenda travelling together, on our 25th wedding anniversary at Kastro's Restaurant in Oia. These two travelled with a Ken doll that they dressed up in different outfits as per the occassion. ...

... caldera with terrific views. We wandered the town a little and looked into the Catholic church. We stopped for a drink at Kastro, overlooking the main part of Fira, before heading back to our hotel terrace for sunset. There was a great little ...

... on these smaller islands since this is the third time this has happened in the few weeks I've been here. I walked up to the old Kastro in Chora but there is really nothing there but a huge rock and some old building foundations. I wanted to get some good ...

... el despertador.Corriendo nos arreglamos xa bajar a desayunar,tan pronto bajamos q aún no han sacado todo,xo tenemos prisa,queremos ver el kastro y la iglesia antes de tomar a las 9 el bus a Esparta.Llegamos al minikastro antes de q abran las puertas del ...

... glasses of wine & other potent potions.  Had a fun adventure winding our way through the tiny maze-like alleyways of the Kastro in the dark, back to our hotel.  Lovely evening!  Lovely introduction to the wonderful island of ...

... ; A brief on Fidel Castro Ruz and Cuba (from Wiki): Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Spanish: [fiˈðel ˈkastro]; born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban politician, socialist revolutionary, and former political leader of the country.[1]  As the ...

... a snack of fava (yellow split pea) spread with bread, which is a local specialty.  We walked all the way to the Kastro (fortress) at the far end of town to watch the sunset (along with about 9 zillion other people).  It was pretty cool watching ...

... signage, Very cool! After an hour or so spent oogling the museum excavations, the rest of the group went up to the Kastro for a tour of the Venetian museum and the Archaeological Museum.  Except for Wilda, intrepid soul that she is, who ...

... al hotel (cogiendo está vez el camino corto), de camino pillamos provisiones en el market. Una vez duchaitas, fuimos a ver el kastro, nuestro paseito por dentro de él ya de noche nos encantó. Asi que para finalizar nuestro paseo, que mejor que una ...