by Pumpkin | Jul 15, 2023 | Travel
As part of our trip three week trip to Crete in 2021, we decided to spend the first week based in Chania to give us easy access to the western side of the island, including Balos, Elafonisi and Chania itself. Similar to previous trips, we hired a car as that made it...
by Pumpkin | Jan 9, 2023 | Travel
Crete is such an amazing island that we just had to come back... Following our 2018 holiday to Crete, a couple of years later in 2020 we decided that we simply must return to this beautiful island. There is just so much to explore in Crete that we didn’t get a...
by Pumpkin | Jan 2, 2023 | Travel
One of the favourite trips we did when staying in Spili in 2020 was visit Loutro for a day. Loutro is a picture-perfect village on the south side of Crete, only accessible by boat and foot. It is definitely a must-visit place on the island and feels a million miles...
by Pumpkin | Dec 31, 2022 | Travel
For the second part of our trip to Crete in 2020, we decided to stay a short drive away from Spili. Spili is a small town around 30km south of Rethymno, and sits on one of the main roads running from the north to south of the islands. However, it is not a busy town,...
by Pumpkin | Nov 21, 2022 | Travel
In 2020, on our way from Panormos in the north to Spili located in south, we took a route via Margarites and Moni Arkadi. Not only was the drive incredibly scenic, but the two destinations en route were very much worth stopping by- and we’d recommend the same to any...
