Tuesday 25 September - Chania - Free day

Sunrise: Chania                   7:13am

Sunset:                                7:16pm

Steps:                                  11,597

No alarm set for this morning, so it was almost 7:30 before I woke up.

I eventually wandered down to breakfast around 8:30ish and a couple of other people from the group had also just a arrived for breakfast.

The breakfast food at all of the hotels has been delicious and this hotel is no different. The breads in Greece are exceptionally good.

I went back to my room to catch up on the blog and to do some washing and didn't leave the hotel until 11am.
I wandered down through the shopping alleys and the cafe/restaurants until I came to the harbour, then started taking some photos.

I kept on walking and came to one of the entrances to the old town but before that, took some photos of the area away from the harbour.

Talos Square Fountain

I then continued walking through the old town area, taking the occasional photo.

I decided to go back to the hotel for a while, before venturing out again in the afternoon.

This time I heading in the opposite direction, away from the 'tourist' streets.

The back of one wing of the Agora Market or Market place.

I'm not sure if this is a working Mosque or not

A young teenager was nursing these 2 kittens. They looked very contented.

The top of the minaret

Some more "non tourist" back street photos.

And finally, I remembered to take a photo of the Agora Market building.

Once back at the hotel, I had a shower and changed, as the weather was very humid  today.  I went down to the bar for a cool drink and some nibbles, then back to my room.

Lois, Elizabeth and I had arranged yesterday, to have drinks in my room tonight.  They came knocking on the door around 7pm.  

We all had a shopping day today, so showed/shared our purchases.

I had the bottle of white wine, that we had share bought at the winery yesterday, in the fridge chilling all of today.

After a while it was getting stuffy in the room, so we moved out to the balcony. Even though it was noisy from the street below, there was a lovely cool breeze blowing. Nibbles of cheese, dried figs, pistachios, bread, cashews and diverse conversation, made for a delightful hour or so. 

After they went back to their room, I spent time, re-arranging my suitcase & carry-on and updating this blog.

Looking at the weather forecast, it appears that tomorrow will be cooler.  The forecast for today was 28 & thunderstorms in the afternoon.  It was warm & humid but the t'storms never eventuated.

We head to Heraklion tomorrow, forecast for there is 22, partly cloudy & windy, humidity 74%. Chania is 23 & 40% chance of showers. I'll keep the brolly & rain coat in my backpack I think. Just in case. :). I didn't bring any cool weather clothes at all, part from what I wore on the plane over.

Almost 11pm, so time for me to hit the sheets, now that I have caught up.

Night all.