Today just started off right! Sandy and I headed to a bakery around the corner from our hotel for our morning cup of coffee. There while eating baklava and other treats and enjoying really good coffee, we watched an endless stream of locals come in and grab a baked treat and coffee to go. This entertained us and convinced us that we had picked the right place. But the fun didn’t end there upon returning to the hotel. The front desk informed us that they had a Fedex package for us. This was great news! Just days before leaving on this trip, one of our credit cards had been compromised. And, as luck would have it, it was one that we rely upon overseas because it has no foreign transaction fees. I had arranged to have a replacement shipped to us at one of the hotels we were scheduled to stay at. The card kept arriving at the hotels a day or so after we moved on. I had asked those hotels to please forward to the next hotel. Today it finally reached us, what a relief. Sandy and I continue to be lucky travelers.
After picking up our auto at the airport, we drove from Heraklion to the town of Kalamati Beach on the southern coast of Crete. After observing some of the Greek, or at least Cretan driving habits and adopting some of them, the drive was uneventful. I did have to get used to driving on the right side of the road again.
While in Cyprus we felt like we were in Greece, now in Crete we are in Greece. From the moment that we left Heraklion we were in the hills and mountains that make up Cretan landscape. The road was like a graceful ribbon sliding between the mountains providing us with an easy and smooth path to our AirBnB.
Upon arriving in Kalamati Beach we quickly learned that at this time of the year the tavernas along the beach are only open on the weekends, and this is Monday. We are going to need to eat. We were already on plan B for the day substituting one site seeing plan for another and now we were on plan C (get some food into the apartment). After off-loading our luggage, we sought out a grocery store and stocked up on some food and staples.
This is a beach town made for vacationers. A beach strip with apartments like ours and probably a dozen restaurants (that won’t be open until Saturday). Still it is very cool to walk the beach with no else there, and watch the sunset behind the islands of Paximadia Ena and Paximadia Dio. This was a good start to our first full day in Crete.
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