What is lost can never be found

 We slept in again today, there are weird forces at work, JW is feeling better but the need for sleep is great.  That and George filling me up with all the Raki last night, the big beers, the retsina at dinner, I’m drinking as much as I was in the US but Raki and terrible Greek beer instead of margaritas.

Anyways, we were supposed to hike the mountain today and George talked me out of it last night so that journey will happen another day I suppose.  My knee feels much better today, which is good because we are hiking with George tomorrow and also the next day at Zakros, which will then be the end of our hiking trilogy.

We walked to the famous bougatsa place that Gordon Ramsey went to on his tour of Greece, and it was a much different from bougatsa we’ve had in the past because they use Cretan cheese instead of whatever is in the other stuff, so it has a different taste.  I liked it plenty, JW was not sold.

After the bougatsa place we walked around old town and bought a few presents for people with requests, and then went back to the room to gather our thoughts. Then we got in the car and headed to the new Chania Museum of History, that is pretty new, it was full of history, it was also full of many pots.  I have to tell you when I walk into a Greek museum and see a lot of pots, I’m pretty much checking out on that shit.  Imagine if you will, in 2 thousand years, there’s a museum for us and its full of plates and Tupperware.  Yea, one pot is the same as another to me.  The history of the island however was facilitating especially the history of western Crete which we have explored quite a bit.  There was even a special section on the city of Lissos, which we went to in 2015 and again in 2019, and it was amazing how that city was so important to the empire and yet its basically an open air museum you can walk around in for free.

After the museum we drove through some neighborhoods we want to buy houses in, just casually of course, and then out on the highway towards the beach of Falasarna.  We were hoping to finally see the archaeological site there that was closed the last time we tried to go there.  On the way we stopped at Spilios which is the place also ate that first trim in 2015 to western Crete and also took Chris and Heather to in 2019.  The food was amazing and moments after we sat down a couple with 2 young children sat down beside us and it could have gotten bad, but was not that bad.  Minutes later a bus dropped off 30 very old women and luckily we were ready to go.  The owner came by and we told her we’ve been coming here so long and I showed her pictures of the way the place used to look like.  It’s really a fantastic place and you should go there.

We drove the rest of the way down the hill and onto the fucking terrible gravel road that lead to the site and wound through an olive grove and came upon the site closed again.  Fucking fuckers.

We backtracked to the main road and then headed down to the beach for a few pictures before heading back to town.

After we got back to town we walked the old town a bit more and bought a few more things including a wonderful new scarf for JW.  We then sat around the room for a while messing about and went to dinner at TAMAM one of our favorites.

Got notice from George we will be hiking tomorrow in the village of Therisos, so that will be awesome, and then off to Sitia.  We will surely miss our three days in Chania, it is the place we want to live some day, we could have spent the entire 2 weeks here and be happy with it the whole time.