For the past few days, the forecast for Thursday and Friday hadn’t been great, hence all the lazing around for the past few days.
So off to Agios Nikolaos which is meant to be really nice, but in reality is pretty large and not especially overwhelming. But it does have shops, which we haven’t seen much of before.
Anyway, it has ac harbour …
… and a cafe for lunch. Fairly rough cafe but, as ever, Cretan food was excellent and cheap. Note you can’t see the mountains in the distance!
There is then a little story about Eileen going off to buy strawberries, which we will keep to ourselves. We agreed it was definitely 50/50!
And then up into the mountains. You can just about make out from the background that we’re pretty high up here.
And we liked the chess set.
To our destination, which was the Lassithi Plateau. According to Wikipedia:
– it is 840 metres above sea-level, so almost as high as Snowdon
– it is one of the highest places in Europe to have a permanent population.
And it has a cafe …
… With views whilst having a coffee. Pictures don’t really do it justice, although as its so high above sea level it was noticeably chilly.
And used to be famed for thousands of windmills, most of which are now gone.
Long drive back down, stopping for a quick picture
and home in time to watch the sunset from our balcony.
