Day 63 Sunday 13/10 Chania (Crete) 29 deg Sunny - Judy here... Lazing and reading by the pool and taking in the delightful view of the sea. In the afternoon I took a 4k walk to the town of Chania to do some shopping/browsing however nothing was open except "turisto" shops. We had a final Greek meal at our hotel, I had Shrimps Saganaki which was delicious and yoghurt with honey and nuts, just love the Greek yoghurt...yum!!

Day 62 Saturday 12/10 Chania (Crete) 29 deg Sunny - Judy here...Lazing and reading by the pool and taking in the delightful view of the sea. In the afternoon we decided to go for a walk and stopped to have a coffee, I then felt the earth move, so did John, (no it wasn't what you might be thinking) we then saw the ground moving or rather heaving and heard the rumble, we jumped up and ran out of the cafe as did the other patrons and everyone was in the road. We...

Day 61 Friday 11/10 Chania (Crete) 29 deg Sunny - John here...A frustrating morning of no internet at our hotel, and after driving 590km in our discovery of Crete, we dropped the hire car off and had a look around the Venetian-Turkish town of Chania. Of course Jude had to get her nails done and tried real hard for other beauty items but nothing doing! I think no internet also had a benefit, as it forced her to poolside for a rest, with any luck no internet ti...

Day 60 Thursday 10/10 Salida > Chania (Crete) 27 deg Sunny - John here...We set off fairly early to visit Lasithi Plain and Zeus's birthplace at Dhiktaion Cave. The Plain was rumoured to have 10,000 sail cloth windmills in days gone by, you needed a vivid imagination to see this as the area was fairly dilapidated so no 10,000 windmills. A little further up the road to Psykhro, purportedly Zeus's birthplace, the only place on the entire trip where I had to...

Day 59 Wednesday 9/10 Salida (Crete) 27 deg Sunny - Judy here...We caught the local bus to the airport to pick up a hire car, then to the supermarket to buy fish for dinner. In the afternoon we drove to Sitia the southern end of the Island. We went to Machlos a 5,000 year old fishing village. We drove along the coast initially and passed many beautiful gumtrees (made me feel nostalgic), olive groves and then little villages and churches clinging to mountain s...