Reminder: the panoramic photos at the start of the blog change every 7/10 seconds and give a larger and clearer image than when viewed with the other photos. Also, there are more photos below the text if you want to skip the diary details; and if you double click on any of the photos you will get an enlarged, clearer, image. You can return to the text anytime. Friday 15th September: the big move from Kissamos to Plakias. After a final leisurely breakfast at the Aphrodite (leading candidate for our favourite hotel ever) we loaded the car and checked out with a fond farewell to the owners and a promise to return next year; hopefully in the Spring. We left Kissamos at 11.15 am heading east along the the E65 north coast highway, past Chania and ... read more

Note: the panoramic photos at the start of the blog change every 7/10 seconds and give a larger and clearer image than when viewed with the other photos. Also, there are more photos below the text if you want to skip the diary details; and if you double click on any of the photos you will get an enlarged, clearer, image. You can return to the text anytime. Sunday 10th September 2017: up before the crack of dawn, 2.30 am to be precise, in order to ensure that we arrived at Bristol Airport well in time to catch our flight to Chania at 06.30. One slight hiccup en route when we took the slip road off the M4 to get onto the M49 only to find a police car blocking the access to the M49. We ... read more

Reminder: the panoramic photos at the start of the blog change every 7/10 seconds and give a larger and clearer image than when viewed with the other photos. Also, there are lots more photos below the text if you want to skip the diary details, and if you double click on any of the photos you will get an enlarged, clearer, image. You can return to the text anytime. Saturday 22nd April: was pretty much a washout as it rained quite heavily and steadily throughout the day. All that we managed was a damp walk to the old town to look for the Archaeological Museum's temporary home, which we found around the corner from the Historical and Folk Art Museum where we'd asked for directions. Of the two the Historical and Folk Art Museum was the ... read more

Note: there are more photos below the text if you want to skip the diary. Also, if you double click on any of the photos you will get an enlarged image and you will be transferred to the photo gallery where you can scroll through all the photos. You can return to the text anytime. Tuesday 18th April, our last full day in the Kissamos area. As we didn't want to travel too far and, also, to get some exercise we decided to walk part of the Topolia Gorge and to have a look at the cave shrine close to the southern entrance of the Gorge. It was less than 10 miles from our hotel to the Gorge and we stopped to take some photos at a car park near the northern entrance of the single ... read more

Reminder: lots more photos below the text, two pages in fact, if you want to skip the boring details. You can return to the text anytime Blog 4 Tuesday 11thOctober: the return to Hersinossos. After bidding a fond farewell to the Sitia Bay Hotel we retraced our journey to Hersinossos. The weather was overcast and very hazy i.e. no good for photos, and the journey through the mountains from Sitia didn’t take as long as the outbound journey: just one and half hours to Ayios Nikolaos (known as Ag Nik to the Brits). We stopped there for a look around and for lunch as Ag Nik is reputed to be one of the top places to stay in Crete. We weren’t impressed, except by the prices which were significantly higher than further east. It’s very built ... read more