About the 2,400-year-old tree and others
[June 2025] Next up on our tour of the inland eastern Crete, Greece, was lunch. Expectations were high after the excellent lunch on our last tour, but this time was a disappointment. We were asked…
[June 2025] Next up on our tour of the inland eastern Crete, Greece, was lunch. Expectations were high after the excellent lunch on our last tour, but this time was a disappointment. We were asked…
[June 2025] The purpose of the tour we took that day was to visit a village in the interior of eastern Crete, Greece. Our main destination was a village called Kritsa. A picturesque village with…
[June 2025] While staying in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, we also joined a tour to visit inland villages. It was the same Astra Tours tour as the one to Vai Palm Beach a…
These are our photos taken in Agios Nikolaos on Crete, Greece in 2025.
[June 2025] One of the destinations we visited from Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, was Spinalonga Island. It’s famous as the island where leprosy patients were quarantined in the early 20th century. I remembered…
[June 2025] During our summer holiday in the town of Agios Nikolaos on the Greek island of Crete, we decided to relax on this day as it was a day of rest. That’s the great…
[June 2025] On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we were finally taken to a restaurant. Lunch was included in the tour. We were starving. We stopped at a restaurant in a neighbourhood where construction…
[June 2025] On our tour of eastern Crete, Greece, we finally arrived at Toplou Monastery, one of our destinations. We paid €5 to enter, but there was no explanation beyond the pamphlet’s description that it…
[June 2025] Astra Tours offers group tours from Agios Nikolaos, a town in eastern Crete, Greece. We often choose these tours because we don’t rent a car when we travel. On this day, we took…