The Minoan Palace
We arrived at the entrance to the Lyttos Beach Hotel at 9:05 am, to await our tour bus. Ahead of us is the Minoan palace of Knossos, and the capital city of Heraklion. Our multilingual guide introduced herself as Irene … Read more
A tale of two swims
A cloudy start to our day with a gentle breeze, in many ways the kind of weather that we have at this time of year in England. After breakfast, we headed back outside towards the sports Centre that we walked … Read more
Welcome to Analipsi
We arrived at the Lyttos Mare Hotel after a short coach journey from Heraklion Airport. And if I’m honest, dear reader, the journey made me a little nervous and apprehensive, due to the ramshackle buildings we were driving past, and … Read more
Walking up a small hill
After breakfast, we packed water into our bags and set off to walk up a small* hill. The correct name for out hill is “Monumento Natural de La Gaza”, but that’s quite a mouthful, so small* hill seems to work quite … Read more
Siam Park baby!
The sun was shining while we ate breakfast and hurriedly made plans to visit Siam Park. As the self-proclaimed no 1 water park in Europe, its awesome water rides really do live up to the title. We decided to walk … Read more
Walking along the sea front
After breakfast we headed out of the hotel and began our three hour walk around the sea front from Las Americas to Costa Adeje, (which is the next resort along the coast) and back. While we were taking in the … Read more
Travelling to Tenerife
Our flight out of Luton was due to depart at 08:30hrs. Needing to get to the airport early enough to get through security and arrive at the departure gate in time, we left at 4:45am, picking Char up en route. … Read more