One of the most popular beaches in Crete, is Elafonisi. It gets quite busy, but there is a lot of beach space for everyone to spread out. If you enjoy walking, there’s a lot to explore. If your legs are wrecked from hiking Samaria Gorge, you also don’t need to walk very far to get a […]
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Hiking Samaria Gorge
Crete has a lot of gorgeous gorges, but Samaria Gorge is the most popular one to hike. Hiking Samaria Gorge is a great alternative to a beach day. The start of the hike offers vistas of surrounding mountains and is very steep. It is beautifully scenic, but that also makes it a common tourist attraction (even in the shoulder seasons). […]
How to get to Iguana Beach on Foot
After a really good night’s sleep in Chania, we woke up fairly early planning to go to a beach for a swim. There is one small beach behind the walls of the Venetian Harbour (at the Guardhouse), but it doesn’t look like a very good swimming beach. It is a very rocky and full of pebbles beach. […]
Exploring Chania’s Old Town
As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to get a cheapo trip to Chania in Crete and ended up paying more for it in London because of the crazy trans-city travel I had to do to catch my second flight. I was quite sleep deprived when I first stumbled through Chania’s Old Town. […]
How to get from Stansted to Gatwick with Public Transport
I decided to be a penny saver on my recent trip to Crete (typical), yet I’m not sure that all my cost saving efforts actually counted in the end (also typical ). This is what happened: I booked a flight from Cork to Chania via London on kiwi.com. What I didn’t realise, though, was that […]