Chania in winter is a city most travel guides ignore, and that is the point. The harbour lights reflect off wet stone, the tavernas are full of locals, you can get a table anywhere and walk the Old Town without…
How many days do you need in Chania? It depends on what you want: city wandering, long beach days, serious hiking or slow village lunches. Chania can absorb all of it. What we can say for certain is that almost…
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…
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…