A Week on Crete (3)

We had breakfast again in the dining area, the same sumptuous spread as the day before. This time I asked Georgina (2) how much it was costing us and she didn't know so she asked Emanuelle. He replied 8 Euros each, about $12 Australian so we decided as lovely as it was we would do our own breakfast for the rest of our stay. After all, that was our purpose in seeking self contained accom, so we could do our own meals which we like to do.

We headed off to Retimos again, this time on the National Highway. We wanted to get there quickly, the intention being to find the War Memorial and go on to Chania to see the ancient town which Rickyralph told us was beautiful and captivating. I was still nervous driving especially as the locals went so fast and overtook daringly going over double lines onto the other side of the highway without hesitation. The highway was divided in places and not others but 2 lanes each way for the most part. I paid close attention to the rearview mirror, I liked to see them coming and move over as far as i could to let them pass. Another thunderstorm hit with heavy rain. As we went down a long decline on a section that had no middle divide other than double lines, two lanes each way, I looked in the mirror to see the car behind me sliding sideways and slowly spin. As he did a section of his car went into the line of traffic going the other way and there was a loud thud and bits of car flew off in all directions. I had to get my eyes back forward and we kept going. There were no cars behind us then for a long time. A cop car lights flashing passed us. We pulled up for a stretch of legs, I'll look for a photo. I haven't had time to start going through the photos to put some on these posts but I will do so from here on.

Retimo is quite a city and we had no idea where the war memorial was so when we saw a turn off to Souda Bay we took it as I knew there was a memorial there. We didn't come across it but saw a sign to Chania 6km so we kept going. As we got closer to Chania we found ourselves in a massive traffic jam with the road choked with cars and buses. That 6k took us 1.5 hours and by then we were in no mood to hang around looking for a park in that horrendous traffic. We inched our way out and and took a wrong turn and found ourselves in rural setting. We were hungry and looking for lunch and found a taverna but the restaurant was closed, only the bar open, we took directions and were getting too close to the traffic again. We eventually found a nice little restaurant for a great lunch and found our way back onto the highway. I have never found it so easy to get hopelessly lost with my sense of direction deserting me. The drive back was uneventful fortunately, except for seeing a badly crushed vehicle getting winched onto truck. It looked like it must have fallen from the high winding road that we traveled the previous day. On the way back we found the supermarket in Gazi and stocked up on wine and eggs and vegies and Lib bought fish for dinner.

Young bloke from Israel took this for us- looking back toward Heraklion