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West To Chania
September 21, 2007 We awake hoping the cloud has blown away over night... but walking to the bakery to get breakfast I can see there's no break in it anywhere. So we decide to brave the bus and head into Chania. The local bus into Rethymnon and then it's another hour west to Chania via little village called Vrisses and around Souda Bay. Annoyingly the sky looks more blue back the way we came but I get a good shot of an old Greek guy as we leave the bus station [left] so it's worth the trip as far as I'm concerned. We find our way down the harbour quite easily with our pop-up map. It would have looked stunning with a backdrop of blue sky and the harbourside taverna's reflecting in a placid Med. Instead the sky is grey and the sea is chucking up some serious waves around the harbour lighthouse. We stop for a Greek salad and Gyros before setting off for a walk around the wonderful lanes. There are surprises around every corner. Flaking paintwork covers shutters, doors and walls and more tavernas than you can imagine. We don't stay long though as the buses are only hourly and the one there was pretty busy. First we have to find out whereabouts in the bus station it is leaving from. This involves listening over the noise for an announcement stating the number of the bus and its final destination. No bus route numbers for these folk. When we get back to Platanes at 7:00 we find that we've missed the big downpour [remember what that chap said on the first night. It hasn't rained since May!]. The mountains were lost in the clouds on the journey back and more seemed to be rolling in from the sea. Still 27 degrees today though, although it had been 32 the previous day. A lot warmer than London! Categories: Food & Drink, Travel Comment | Permalink Comments: Post a Comment
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