RollingRocco

Meravigliosa!Wow! Where to start! So far one of my preferred places in our travels. Franco has been here few times before. But I didn't expect it to be so beautiful! It has this special atmosphere maybe because it's very small roughly 20km X 20 km. It's four of us, Franco and I, Liz our friend that often goes on holidays with us and Davide that stays here 6 months a year but comes from Travo which is close to where we all live. It's always great to have an insider that knows all the stuff about the island 🙂 They all spearfish so we have fish every day!!There's only one town on the island- Carloforte with it's majestic ficus trees in the main square. The town has everything you need with restaurants, supermarkets and bars.And obviously is very lively so if you want to have fun you go to the city and if you want to have peace you can find a quiet beach with few people at this time of the year  .The rest are all the ...

We couldn't go far after Taverna, so the morning after we woke up 300m from the restaurant, on the parking lot of Ancient Eleutherna site.( Note the snowy mountain in the background 😀)  We put our hiking shoes and had a nice 2h walk,passing tower, rocks and bridge( all ancient I can assure you😜).  Obviously on Crete there are hundreds of archeological sites, this one at least was for free and it was a pleasurable walk amongst olive groves accompanied by sheep and goats.  For the night we found a perfect place to call home. Today we continued our stroll on the north coast. Visited the most important archeological site on Crete- Knossos palace,home of Minos and the legendary Minotaur. Truly,a bit disappointed.Maybe I was expecting something bigger and described better.Think this actually was our last visit to archeological sites as at the end, they only rocks.