Rested from our earlier excursion and having
re-organised my father and brother’s weekends (more to follow on this) we
decided to have a look down the back allies at the little shops and see what
they were selling.
The first street seemed to sell nothing but
leather, now given that we don't have many cows on the island I don't think I
would be wrong is saying that the bags wallets, belts and shoes didn't come
from Crete, walking down the street we were instantly transported to the
Medinas of Morocco!
Further down the street Morocco spat us out
and we were back in Greece, with shops selling olive oil and olive oil related
products. I am a sucker for packaging and ended up splurging on some really
nice olive oil shampoos and conditioner which are currently winding their way
back to the uk for a birthday present - albeit a rather late present, I hope
that I am forgiven!
By the time that we had had a look in quite
a few shops and had been touted by more greasy Greek men than I care to admit -
each one convinced that their restaurant was going to blow our minds away - we
eventually found a back street one in the end of town which looked like it had
never seen a tourist in its life before.
This we thought would be perfect ... Hmmm we were right and we were
wrong. Mum was desperate for some calamari, as we had walked past we had seen a
rather large plate which looked really fresh and tasty, the décor well, left
much to be desired but we have eaten in some interesting places before and been
pleasantly surprised so we thought why not?
A small bottle of ouzo later, a beer, some
calimari and a cucumber salad and well we were done. The food was actually
quite good, the service well ... it could have been better but what to do. I am
not sure that I would return to the venue but that’s not the point, it did the
job.
Having wandered around town earlier we had
seen what looked to be the makings of a movie set and feeling somewhat nosey we
thought we would have a look and see what it was all about ... this of course
was what everyone else was doing and as the set was for a scene in what
appeared to be the 1930's a heap of tourists in modern attire was not going to
make great background material. In my mind this made me suspect that the
director was going to wait until the wee hours when everyone was tucked up in
their bed before they started filming.
So we thought we would have a cocktail ....
a mojito later we headed off towards the hotel, it was after all almost
midnight and ironically we walked passed a boat moored on the harbour front
called Cinderella, I did wonder if it would turn into a pumpkin on the stroke
of twelve.
Outside our hotel was what appeared to be a
wine bar serving cheeses and meats alla italian style ... My eyes lit up at the
thought of non Greek food and so we decided to have a glass of wine and a
cheese plate. The glass of wine turned into a bottle (they didn’t serve the one
we wanted by the glass) and the cheese plate turned into a cheese and cold
meats plate. The wine was recommended to us by the sommelier who was
extremely knowledgeable, he was a very nice chap who had a lot to say about the
area which we found very interesting.
The winery was called Vinerai, it stocked
wines from all over Greece and offered simple plates of food – salads, cheeses
and meats a bit more up market and with a slightly more European twist than
most of the places in the area, it was very nicely decorated and all in all I
would highly recommend it.
Eventually some time after two in the
morning we made it back to our room and to our beds, tummy full, eyes closed.
Vineria Contact details:
36 Kallinikou Sarpaki, Chania
Tel: 00 30 28210 57590
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