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April 16, 2025
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Chania, Greece
April 16, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
We landed in Chania (pronounced hanya) about 11:30 at night. Took a taxi to the room, wound down, and fell asleep.
The next morning we were off to see the beach.
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Nopigia hike
April 19, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
This hike along the coast gave us our first of many exposure to things abundant on Crete. Churches, goats, mountains, beautiful views, these large purple flowers, and wildflowers are all abundant here on the island. Not to mention rocky beaches and wind.Read more
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Ancient olive tree of Vouves
April 20, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Branches from this tree have been used in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
It's rather interesting in that the base of the tree is ancient, but the top has been grafted on with a less ancient variety of olive 🫒Read more
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Kolympari sit
Apr 21–30, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F
The whole reason we came to Greece, other than its history and beauty, was to housesit. Our first of two was Kolympari on the island of Crete.
We had two indoor cats to take care of. That was easy enough, but we also were feeding up to 16 outside cats twice a day. It wasn't hard, but a little time-consuming.
We had oranges, lemons, and loquat available for the picking. Yummy 😋Read more
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Phalasarana
April 21, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Like the old city of Polyhernia, this place was occupied by people for a long time. It was once a bustling sea port for the Roman's who built on top of the people before them.
The archeological site was closed, but we walked around the outside and peered over the fence.
Down the road a bit, there was a tiny beach we stopped at to wade in the shallow water.
On the way home, we stopped at a church that was built in a cave.Read more
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Balos Beach
April 23, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
A famous beach known for its beauty. We decided to brave the drive out on the unsaved, sometimes deep rutted road to see it for ourselves.
Once you get to the end of the 7km road, which takes about 45 minutes to drive, you still have a 20-minute hike down the mountain to get to the beach.
It is pretty, but not worth doing twice.Read more
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Rethymino
Apr 24–25, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
We drove over to this historic city, looking for more sights.
There is an old fort here also, but due to time and cost, we didn't go in.
We had a nice lunch before heading back.
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Polyrrhenia
April 26, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
This village has history going back a long time.
Minoan, Helenic, Roman people, and who knows who else have lived here.
It was fun to explore, and see how one period of people just built on the top of the previous people.Read more
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Palaiochora
May 1, 2025 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 61 °F
Looking for something to do on a cold, windy day, we took off on a drive into the mountains. We took some small winding roads that turned into dirt and twice had to reverse course because of the road, but we had fun.
We ended up on the other side of the island at this little town.
There is an old fort up on the hill, and it sits on a peninsula, so there is a rocky beach on one side and a sandy beach on the other.
We took the main road home.Read more
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Palaiochora
May 1, 2025 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 61 °F
We took a drive to the other side of the island to check out this old fortress and cute little town.
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Travonitas sit
May 2–13, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 64 °F
With only a two day gap between them, we managed to secure a second sit just down the road from our first sit on Crete. This time, it's dogs.
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Topolio Gorge
May 3, 2025 in Greece ⋅ 🌬 66 °F
Wanting to do a gorge hike, we found this one close by on all trails and decided to try it. It starts out along the road and makes its way down to the river. The trail meanders up, the river or along it, before climbing up at the far end.
Fun hike but wouldn't do it again.Read more
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Kiklomino gorge
May 5, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
We loved this hike. It's about 2.5 hours long. You start out through the gorge and climb out the other side, top a ridge, and head back down the other side of the mountain.
There are a couple of spots that require a little climbing and / or hanging on to a chain bolted to the mountain for safety.
At the top, there are some old ruins, and all along the way, some beautiful views. Including views of the sea.
There were lots of tribes of goats and folds of sheep, and we met a really nice dog along the way.Read more
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Chania 2
May 7, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Since we never made it out to the lighthouse, the first time we were in Chania, we decided to go revisit today.
It turned out to be a pretty good day. Considering there was a cruise ship or two in town.
We made it to the lighthouse, and we got to visit much more of the old town that we didn't see the first time.Read more
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Aradena gorge
May 8, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
We took a two hour drive to the other side of the island to check out a hike into this gorge. The drive was something else. We had to cross over the mountains, and going down the other side involved, hairpin turn after hairpin, turn. When that was done, and we made it to the sea, we had to turn around and go back up another mountain, which also involved hairpin turn after hairpin turn.
The hike didn't start very nice, but it turned out to be a pretty cool hike. You hike up to the edge of the gorge, and looking down, you see all the switchbacks going down and then back up the other side right in front of you. The trail actually goes into a cave and then back out on its way up the hill. At the top, on the other side, you enter the historic village of Aradina. It's mostly ruins now, but there are still people living there. Mostly, goat farmers.
Instead of hiking back into the gorge and up, we decided to cross the bridge and take the road back. It's a one lane bridge, and although modern, it looked a little sketchy.
And of course, the drive home required traversing the same roads we took on the way there.Read more
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Sunset at Elafonissi Beach
May 9, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☁️ 73 °F
Thinking we would watch a beautiful sunset on the beach, we left in the evening to Elafonissi to watch the sunset. It was another interesting drive along the edge of a mountain Narrow one lane road. It went through a couple of really neat tunnels.
But unfortunately, when we got to the beach, it was a little overcast.
We enjoyed it as much as we could. After the sunset, we had a wonderful dinner at the taverna, overlooking the beach. Even though it was dark and we couldn't see it.
I thought the road was fun on the way there in the daylight. It was even better on the return in the dark.Read more
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Meskla to Zourva gorge
May 11, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 61 °F
According to the reviews, this sounded like it was gonna be a great hike. It started out really well, but the last half was not that great.
There were some pretty views along the way, but they were few and far between. It was all uphill on the way out and, of course, downhill on the way back. The worst part about the hike was the only open taverna in the town we walked to, did not have decaffinated coffee or plant milk..Read more
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Leaving Greece 🇬🇷
May 13, 2025 in Greece ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Our last day after cleaning and packing we stopped in Chania on our way to the airport. Another delicious meal at the restaurant called Pulse. If you go, try the mushroom special.
We met the homeowner at the airport and began our long journey. We tried something new by putting shirts over our backpacks so the straps weren't an issue. By the time they got to Athens, they were naked.
With our THS membership we get two airport lounge passes. We took advantage with our 8 hour layover.Read more
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Trip end
May 13, 2025