Covering beaches, choosing a base, day trips, eating, getting around, villages, where to stay. Newest first, each one carrying the date of its last check on the ground.
The airport is on the wrong side of Chania for almost everywhere you are going. What that costs in time, which transfer actually suits which resort, and the drive times nobody publishes.
Two names on the same golden ribbon west of Chania — the balanced family middle against the strip's engine room. Beach, noise, buses and evenings, compared.
Chania or Rethymno as your base in western Crete? Beauty against value, beach on foot against beach by car, airports, prices and day trips, compared.
A Greek city-state on a plateau 200m above Souda Bay, with Roman cisterns you can walk inside, an Ottoman fort and two German bunkers.
Souda Bay war cemetery, Hill 107 at Maleme, and the German cemetery above it. Free, quiet, and for a certain kind of visitor the most affecting half-day.
The Zorba-famous bay and its peninsula neighbours, twenty minutes from Chania — sheltered family water, the mountain of the film.
The west's answer to the Hersonissos corridor — long sandy beaches, Theodorou island views, full resort services.
The plane-shaded village at the top of a lovely gorge drive, where Venizelos raised his 1905 revolt.
How to eat brilliantly in the most touristed town in west Crete — the one-street-back rule, what to order here specifically, and the tourist-trap tells.
The zig-zag turquoise inlet on Akrotiri is a phone-wallpaper in real life — reached by a hairpin road and a goat path.
Crete's most beautiful city, quarter by quarter — where the noise actually is, what the harbour restaurants don't tell you.
The Venetian harbour is genuinely beautiful and genuinely mobbed. How to love Chania old town anyway.