This lunch was worth the wait
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
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…
Wild eastern Crete
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…
Café with a great view
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…
Our beach day ended with only a sunburn
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…
Trenino trip was a wrong choice
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…
The town of Agios Nikolaos
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…
The paradise she built
There was a colourful restaurant right near the Airbnb we were staying at in Agios Nikolaos, eastern Crete, Greece. We noticed it just before arriving at the Airbnb by taxi, and my husband…
Also this time it was Airbnb
We stayed at an Airbnb in Agios Nikolaos, a town in eastern Crete, Greece. Since our first Airbnb stay in Sardinia in 2020, we’ve become completely addicted to its convenience. We’ve had about…
