Port Day in Chania, Crete

 This blog is a bit all over the place lately, so now I am going back to posting a bit more about our cruise over Halloween (and just to confuse things even more, there are likely to be posts abut Christmas Markets over the rest of the weekend).

Chania, Crete is another port where we took the public bus into town.  In this case, there is a small, modern town right at the port area---a large grocery store, but little charm.  The main attraction is about a 20 minute drive away.  The public bus picks up right by where you get off the ship, and as in Corfu, a round trip ticket is 2.70€.

We were dropped near the old town are and started meandering towards the famed Old Venetian Port area.

Fish pedicures are offered on just about every block in the Greek tourist towns lately and the guys had considered them the day before and simply could not resist this time around, so before we explored any further, they put down 7€ each to let fish nibble their toes for 15 minutes.

The owner talked me into putting my hand in for a minute--it felt odd (the guys loved it though):

After the stint as fish food, we headed up the hill behind the main street to see the views---we also saw the first of many stray cats as we headed up:

Back off the hill, we continued meandering towards the port

passing the church we had seen from above

 and finally arriving at the very pretty little port area:

On the opposite side of the port area from the old lighthouse is a nice paved path along the shore where you can stroll and watch waves break on the rocks:

We wandered for a half hour or so and then headed back up through other streets back towards the bus stop:

All in all it was a very pleasant port--well worth heading into town for a visit.  

I will sign off with a photo of the night's towel animal -- a cute little elephant.  We had gotten used to only one or two animals per cruise on Royal but I think on the Splendour we had one every night!

--Hadley