Ammos Apartments
Travel Blogs from Malia
Kisamos et la plage de Balos
Notre séjour en Crète tire à sa fin. Nous partons le 17 et avons pas mal de route à faire avant de revenir à Héraklion pour prendre l'avion. Nous avons encore envie de découvrir des endroits magiques et décidons d'aller à la plage de Balos, qui est au Nord-Ouest de l'île. Nous partons de Paléochora et arrivons le jour même à Kisamos, une ville plutôt laide. La mer, une fois ...
No fixed abode so a week in Crete
... bottom of the gorge is covered in ankle twisting boulders that I managed to negotiate well until I met the first hiker of the day coming up the gorge and promptly fell to the ground twisting my ankle in the process! Never mind - one more off my "to do" list only 764 to go! Lou in the meantime had the good sense to stay in Chania and spend the day culling more than 4000 of the 11,000 plus photographs from her computer to free up space for ...
Crete
... one problem with driving in Crete is the road signs are hard to find/see/follow and are written in Greek. The other problem are the drivers... Well they're not too bad once you realize what to expect. So we're driving thru the mountains headed to Angoia and we are seeing lots of these tiny mailbox sized church-box things. (On our final day we asked someone what those church mailboxes were, he let us know that was a marker for a fatal accident... We saw a dozens of them- ...
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
... branch of the post office, a bike shop, little markets, and we blended in as best we could. We grew quite fond of the woman who managed our apartment, and she loved Anna. We'd eat at the corner kebab place and everyday when we rode by on our bikes the owners would come out and wave at us. Like all Greek people we've met so far, everyone was friendly. One day we met an Aussie who was also staying at the apartment complex and he said, "...there's a strike today, so you ...
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free parking