Tue 07 Aug 2012 Today was a bit of a sad one for us, as Grandpa / Dad left today. Sad for him as it was probably the last day of boat-living aboard Fabiola and for us it was the end of having someone to bounce ideas off and of course the mechanical encyclopaedia for Fabiola which is now our responsibility. Yesterday we went into Chania which was a simply stunning Venetian port but almost certainly windless and extremely busy. Surrounded by bars and restaurants. We hired what seemed like the last hire car in Crete and headed for the hills to enable us to scratch the surface beyond the coastline. We climbed up into the mountains along Monte Carlo Rally-esque roads and into cooler climes. We stopped at a WW2 museum in Kessara
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