This is Sunday and we take a bus to Chania (also spelled Hania and pronounced hahn-yah). This is Crete’s most evocative city with it’s pretty Venetian quarter crisis-crossed by narrow lanes leading to a magnificent harbor. It’s only 28 miles from Kissamos but the bus ride takes an hour.
Our first stop is the Archaeological Museum in a beautifully restored 16th century Venetian Church of San Francisco. What amazed us the most is how small fragments were glued together to re-create the vases and vessels. There were also glass vases from a 3 C BC glass foundry. I had no idea glass could be this old.
After coffee in a nice garden restaurant we went to the Byzantine Museum. This had a limited number of items to display and was a disappointment after Archaeological Museum.
The town was humming this Sunday. Outdoor restaurants abound in the city and are wall-to-wall on the harbor. Almost all were full or near full. So how do you choose one? It’s common practice to have a “salesman” outside trying to lure you in. I saw one with a sign “No Pressure”; this appealed to me so that’s where we went. We later discovered it has a 2018 Trip Advisor Mark of Excellence. And it certainly was good. But we haven’t had a bad meal since we’ve been here.
From our outdoor restaurant (below) we could see a Mosque across the bay, but it wasn’t open. And we came across two bikes that looked like city rental bikes but were unique in that they were made of wood.
Did you rent the wooden bikes?
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