Packing for Chania is easy, but it is not quite “beach holiday” packing. Within one week you might walk on slippery cobblestones, hike a gorge, swim at a rocky cove and visit a monastery that will not let you in…
The best time to visit Chania depends on what you want from the trip. For swimming, hiking and walking the old town in comfort, aim for late May to June or September to mid-October. July and August give you the…
Ten days in Chania is enough to understand why people come once and then return every year. This is not just a beach destination. It is an old Venetian town with the White Mountains behind it, wild gorges to the…
Kissamos Chania is one of those places that quietly rewards the people who actually stop there. Most visitors speed through on their way to Balos or Falassarna, glance at the town square, and leave without a second thought. That is…
Loutro Chania sits on the southern coast of Crete with no road connecting it to anywhere. Not a quiet road or a rough track. No road at all. With no cars or roads leading into the village, the only way…
Frangokastello Chania is one of those places on Crete that you do not stumble across by accident. It is a deliberate destination. A Venetian fortress sitting directly on a flat coastal plain, the White Mountains rising hard behind it, the…