Today was going home day. It was filled of mixed feelings of wanted to be home and not wanting to leave.

After the windy mountain road, which made me feel very travel sick, we arrived at Chania where we spent a couple of hours.

I have very many negative opinions towards Chania and these are shared between a lot of the group. After a week of peace and quiet Chania was a dramatic change we were not prepared for. Chania was busy, over-commercialised and very pushy. We had people coming out from their resturants and pushing menus into our faces trying to get us to eat there and convince us that we needed food. Once seated however more “sellers” came round the tables wanting to sell you knock-off DVDs and other goods. Although Chania was very beautiful we did not stay at the harbour for long. We discovered the ancient cobbled streets which where less commercialised but they where very reminiscent of Italy so it was hard to imagine you were still in Crete.

Chania

In my opinion I feel those that have just stuck to north Crete have missed out on what Crete is all about and the beauty that it has to offer.

We soon left Chania and flew home, arriving in Reading about 10pm.