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…

[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…

[June 2025] On our third day in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece, we took a Trenino tour outside the town. A Trenino is a small train. It’s a train-shaped tourist bus, common in tourist areas. In…

[June 2025] We spent the afternoon of our arrival and the next day walking around the town of Agios Nikolaos on the Greek island of Crete, where we were staying for this holiday. We made…

We went to see the famous Knossos Palace in Crete. There were not only the actual ruins they found, but some buildings were added according to the imagination of the discoverer. There are people who…

[Aug.2009] We moved to Irakleio from Rethymno, our base in Crete. According to my guide book, here the main thing to see was the Archaeological Museum, so we went there to find that it was…

[Aug.2009] We were going to join a tour to go to the west end of the island of Crete, Greece but because the company made a mistake, we had to join a tour to Samaria…

[Aug.2009] The second tour we joined in Crete was to visit villages along Amari Valley. This time, our guide was a pretty girl from the Netherlands and she had a good command of English, French…

[Aug.2009] When we had my summer holiday in Crete, we joined a few group tours. The first one was to go inland and reach the south side of the island. The inland of Crete is…