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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A Chania Old Town walking tour is the best way to understand what makes this city extraordinary. Most visitors do a loop around the Venetian Harbour, take a photo at the lighthouse, and feel like they’ve seen Chania. They’ve seen the surface. The real city — its layers of Minoan, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian, Ottoman
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Things to do in Crete
The Samaria Gorge hike is one of the great walks of the Mediterranean — 16 kilometres through the dramatic White Mountains of Crete, descending 1,250 metres from a high mountain plateau down to the turquoise waters of the Libyan Sea. It is, for many visitors to Crete, the single biggest day of their entire trip.
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Things to do in Crete
Before you book a villa holiday, it can be hard to picture what it actually feels like — especially if you’ve only ever stayed in hotels. What do you do all day? Does it feel like too much effort? Is it really more relaxing? We think the best way to answer that is just to
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Guest tips & Villa life