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 pay for parking. So imagine this, in the absolute middle of nowhere, we arrive at a car park where 3 other cars were, up races this Greek chic who then directs me to park in a particular spot, slaps a sticker under the windscreen wipers and demands 2Euro. The cave in Greek mythology is the birthplace of Zeus and where he was hidden by Rea his mother who escaped from Cronus, his father who had a reputation of devouring his children. I said to Jude it seemed to me Cronus was working against history in that the child often slayed the father to take power. We then headed west and dropped into Rethymnon for a coffee break and a look around the town and Venetian harbour. We parked near the old town which was very busy with lunch trade and heaps of restaurants to accommodate it. This part of Crete looked pretty prosperous with better quality shops. On to Chania, Xania, Canea or Hania, the Greeks can't seem to decide. Finding the hotel was a challenge but we got there, checked in and then went into the hills for a traditional, probably our last, Cretan dinner at a family taverna, Leventis.