So driving out of Hersonissos was a bit, shall we say eyeopening...I had only witnessed the driving here from busses and walking but when you're actually driving here it's insane! I had the car for like 10 minutes and was driving down this one road (I use the term road loosley, as it was smaller than the size of a vancouver alley), but there's scooters parked on the side of the road and a huge tourbus comes down it, I pull over and this bus is, no joke, like 3 inches from the car, I actually had to move the car closer and closer to the wall as it pulled past us to avoid a large scrape down the side.
Other than the lack of space and the winding one lane mountain roads, it was the best thing we could have done. The first day with our rental car we drove up to this plateau where a lot of real villages are with no tourists, just quaint little town after quaint little town. Before reaching these quaint little villages we did find however the Homosapien museum!! That's right, the place where you can check out homosapiens and their history right in this little building on the way up the mountain. So we stopped had a bite to each and had (as they boasted) "The best cuppucino in greece!" It was actually really good. Also on the menu they had Special "Homo Sapien" I had no idea you could get Homosapien with cheese!
Anyhow, during that first day with the car we: saw a really incredible natural cave, drove through countless little towns, we drove on a gravel road that made me feel like I was back home on the island again and made it to a beach called Matala. Bonnie had read about there being a redsand beach there but it was on the other side of these "rocks" so when we arrived to set out to climb over the "rocks" and get to this cool red beach.
The "rocks" as it turned out was a small mountain, it was only about a 1/2 hike but the sun was beginning to set so we had a short time swimming there (which was fantastic) and then went back over to have dinner on the other side before we had to hike in the dark.
A view of the beach from the top of the "rocks"
The beach, with the cliff that housed hippies in the 60s (John Poser??)It was crazy during dinner we found out that our cook was from Nanaimo so he came up to talk to us and during the course of that conversation the people who were eating behind us were from Vancouver and they were on the honeymoon too! So we shared some stories and stuff laughed and went back home.
Anyhow the moral of the story is, if you're in Crete...RENT A CAR!! There's no better way to see it.
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