Today we drove ourselves to Suda and visited the Commonwealth Cemetery where there are many NZers Aust & British soldiers.
We then drove through the step rugged rocky terrain through tiny villages tucked in the valleys to the other side of Crete where I paddled my feet in the Libyan Sea at a town called Paleochora. Crops seemed to be mainly olive trees through this area although we did see one village that was all tomatoes in huge cages covered in heavy plastic. The tomatoes here are huge and divine. The only animal life we've seen are goats ~ thats all that would survive here. We stopped for lunch in a tiny village where the Germans shot all the men and boys in the village after they won the battle of Crete.
Unfortunately the towns on this Southern side of Crete along the coast can only be reached by dirt tracks which we attempted by car but are actually marked for tramping only so we had to make our return trip on the same route back to Chania.
By the time we arrived back at our hotel it was 6.30pm time for a pre dinner drink and find a place for dinner.
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