Crete - Day 2 - Part 1

On the red bus for a tour

In the morning we had breakfast at our hotel the Sansal. They had a nice selection of pastries, breads, yogurt and hot foods like egg, bacon and sausage. They had these cute little bottles of jam, honey and peanut butter which were a perfect portion size. I chose to have a 2 fried eggs, bacon and toast with a cappuccino (I obviously had a 2nd one afterwards).

We then packed up our bags and checked out of the hotel, however we left our bags at the hotel as we were only able to check in to our new hotel at 2pm, so to kill time we went on a red bus tour to go site seeing.

Whilst waiting for the red bus to arrive we sat at a cafe and I had a quick cappuccino.

Cappuccino - such a good start to a day - or a tour

The red bus came and we got on board. Each ticket was 15 Euros. The red bus does a tour of 13 locations.

13 STOPS INCLUDE:
AKTI KANARI
NEA HORA
1866 SQUARE
SPLANTZIA (Old Turkish Neighbourhood)
SABIONARA (Gate of the Sand)
ELEFTHERIA'S SQUARE (Courthouse)
THE HOLY TEMPLE OF ST. MAGDALENE (HALEPA)
VENIZELOS GRAVES
SOUDA BAY WAR CEMETARY
SOUDA BAY
AGORA (MARKET HALL)
HALIDON STR (VENETIAN HARBOUR)
TALOS SQUARE

We got off at the Souda Bay war cemetery and went exploring there. They had beautiful gardens with an old beautiful church. There was a statue of a man called Spiros Kayales who had a very brave interesting story written on the plaque:

Here are some pictures of the views we encountered.

Views	From the bus	snow capped mountains
Snow capped	mountains in the	distance
The views were truly amazing

Jack and Les

A closer view of the snow capped mountains

One of the Ferry boats

More to follow ...