Greece makes extraordinary wine. Crete makes some of Greece’s best — and almost nobody outside the island knows it yet. If you’ve sat down at a Cretan taverna and stared blankly at a wine list full of names you can’t pronounce, this guide is for you. Here’s everything you need to know about Cretan wine: […]
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Food & Drink in Chania
The villages near Chania, Crete are one of the island’s most rewarding secrets — and one of the most overlooked. While most visitors spend their days between the Venetian Harbour and the famous beaches, the countryside just beyond Chania holds a different, older, quieter Crete: stone-built mountain communities, Byzantine churches, medieval olive mills, chestnut forests,
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Day trips from Chania are one of the great privileges of basing yourself in western Crete. Within a two-hour drive in almost any direction lie some of the most spectacular landscapes in the Mediterranean — pink sand lagoons, ancient gorges, Venetian hill towns, mountain villages, and beaches that appear in travel photography around the world.
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Travel Guides (Chania and Crete)
Of all the beaches in western Crete, none stops people mid-scroll quite like Balos. Set at the tip of the wild Gramvousa Peninsula, where three seas meet, it’s a shallow lagoon of impossibly clear turquoise water framed by white sand and pink-tinged shells. It’s also one of the most photographed spots in all of Greece
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Travel Guides (Chania and Crete)
There are covered markets all over the Mediterranean. But the Municipal Market of Chania — known locally as the Agora — is something else. Step through any of its four entrances and you’re immediately hit by a wave of sensory information: the sharp tang of aged cheese, the earthy sweetness of dried herbs, the glint
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Food & Drink in Chania