I visited the island of Crete with two adventurous wonderful women, and we stayed on the coast on a beautiful property called Villa Le Reve, near Skepasti (google says Milopotamos). It was managed by Kostas and the Tour Company Etouri (271 Arkadiou St) in nearby Rethymno. We stayed there Saturday to Saturday, October 13-20, arriving after 15h and leaving by 11h.
We took Aegean air from CDG-HER AT566 from Charles de Gaulle, Paris at 12:05 to Heraklion arriving 16:10 and returned to Paris AT111.
We were terrible uninformed about where we were, and learned in pieces that Crete was the start of Greek civilization with the Minoan era centered at the Knossos Palace nearest Heraklion, which we never had a chance to see! We also tried to find the center of the Greek mythology, Mount Olympus, but due to difficult navigating and roads littered with rockfall, we never saw that either!
In fact, the whole trip was based on a geographical error. In her desire to see the island of Corfu (or was it Cyprus), my friend convinced us to go with her, and she found the villa, and we ended up in Crete!
What we did see was amazing, with harrowing adventures of incredible driving (not me, Tina!), swelling tides with brave naked swimmers, thorny rocky fields with noisy grazing goats, construction of incredible roadways and fortresses, and the ever-changing Aegean sea and sky.
The pool was extravagant, and bracing! The electricity was solar, until it was a noisy generator when that ran out. The place locked up like a fortress, but it would take a determined person just to find it, winding up terrible roads and twisting turns to get there and back.
The driving was difficult, but we bought the insurance that covered everything, including the undercarriage, and had no regrets. The drivers were very respectful, and we saw evidence of a bus route along the major roads, but would have a long walk down to them and back.
In Paris, we stayed at Hotel Marcel Ayme, where I discovered that this author had inspired street art that I remembered from a previous trip to Montmartre (in the steps of Amelie Poulin) with his book le Passe-Muraille (The Man Who Walked Through Walls) .
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