Arrived in Chania at 1:30 check in to Porto Veneziano in Old Town. This is great hotel in a perfect location easy access to Town Center, bus, beaches, lots of resturants. Had a oceanview with Patio. Excellent view of sunset and morning and evening fishermen. Great breakfast at the hotel each morning, served harbor side.
Took Greek Sea Cruise - one hour cruise docking from old town port. Saw first topless sunbather - riding a paddle boat. From the boat you could swin or snorekel (which we did not since we didn't have our swinsuits). We had dinner at Movaoinpi (aka Monastiri Taverna) located on the old town habor. We ate greek salads, ice cream with baked candied apple. We finsihed off our meal with the customary shot of restina (wine flavored with the resin of pine trees). Old Town offers lots of resturants and shopping. We started wondering through the shops and easily found too many items to resist - sun dresses, red coral and beaded jewlery. Many of these items were hand made in Greece.
We met a shop owner, Karen, from Buffalo NY. She moved to Chania in 80's and married a Greek man. We tried to convince her we wanted to partner with her to open a shop like hers in Maple Grove. "Yea, yea" she said. "Another vactioner with too much time on thier hands" I am sure she said under her breath! Once we got a home we immeditaly stareted to panic -where are we going to put all of these things. We were already at maximum capacity with our backpacks. Not to worry we'll worry about that later - we're already catching on to this Greek mindset. After one afternoon and evening in Chania we've managed to learn to Greek words. The proper pronunciation for Chania (hay-na) and yasu (hello).
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