Windmills and gorges

Okay, that's my face saying no more rocks please🤣
Few days ago we slept at the parking lot of the small town called Plaka. 
You know that feeling when you're on the narrow road that never ends and so you think you're the only one   to arrive and there will be no one there apart you- kind of like a pioneer.Than you get there and all you can see are small villa villages and plenty of restaurants and shops🤣hey at least there were no tourists,just us.It's obviously almost impossible to find a virgin place where no other tourists but you arrived before but I hope they still exist somewhere🤔
In front of this town is a Spinalonga island, first a Venetian fortress that became a leprechaun colony from 1903-1956.Rather sad story, you can see a documentary L' ordre by Jean-Daniel Pollet about the people
that lived there and there isolation.
We've seen quite a few of wind mills 
 and went to visit Richter's Gorge.Gorge is a canyon likebut more Cretan style😀
We only did a half of it cose it was late, so we missed  the best part when it finishes on the beach but at the end of the day Franco found a house for us😉

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