Head out with the car today to Argyroupoli to discover traces of the Ancient City Lappa. It’s not far from Rethymno, 30 km and the ride take us into the hills, we never get fed up, of these rides, the views, the village lives, the smells. Lappa I read is spread around the upper village, excavations have been hard as today’s houses are many, you can find Roman remnants, Venetian buildings and the Byzantine churches with lower Argyroupoli known for the famous ...

Wow 930am we finally rise, not slept so long in months. Still broken but feel a whole lot better for those extra hours past 5ish. Maybe these new tablets are working, certainly less flushes during the night. Russ whips up breakfast whilst I sit on the balcony blogging. We then hit the town. It’s a lovely walk along the sea front and first stop the church in the Fortress walls. We continue on, Russ with map in hand and guide book. We walk to the old Venetian h...

The wind has not eased, it is blowing gusts of 30mph. We take breakfast at our last place Sante Irene, very good too, savoury crepe for me, coffee and orange juice. We walk like 2 crippled people, our calves are rock hard from the Gorge walk, so painful! Walking once we get going is not so bad but going down steps, OUCH! By 930 we are on route up and over the mountains to the north coast. Russ takes it very careful and I feel fine, dozing quite a bit due to m...

I slept better than I thought, gel earplugs are amazing at keeping snores out especially when they are close vicinity! The pillow is not bad at all. I am awake at 530 am so we rise as alarm was going off at 6. Russ goes down to the bakery and brings back coffee and croissants. It is pitch black with the stars and moon shining bright over the sea. As we get ready the sun lightens to purple pink tones of the sun rise. I set to sorting the ‘toe’ out. I place p...

Day 4 Crete 16/9/18 Off we go to Sougia Another beautiful sunrise and happily I just made it which means a good night sleep for me. Air con has a low fan setting so not really noisy and helps with the hot flushes. I would like to go back to Elafonissi for couple of hours before our 1.5hrb journey to Sougia through the mountain villages. We are going to stop at Eros and Kandanos. I typed Kandanos in google last night and we read about the the Holocaust of Ka...