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Olive oil factory tour

[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…

Crete

To Spinalonga Island

[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…

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But still, seafood

[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…

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This lunch was worth the wait

[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…

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Rich monastery and the painful beach

[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…

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Wild eastern Crete

[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…

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Café with a great view

[June 2025] While staying in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, we went to a highly rated café my husband found online that evening. As we discovered, its selling point was its location. Gioma is…

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Our beach day ended with only a sunburn

[June 2025] We were on summer holiday in Agios Nikolaos in eastern Crete, Greece, and the next day was decided to be a beach day. We headed to Almyros Beach, said to be the best…