{"id":2555,"date":"2015-05-20T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2015-05-20T09:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T08:32:47","slug":"chilling-in-chania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"Chilling in Chania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it takes a combination of elements to bring out the best in a place, a person or a task.<\/p>\n

Cania seems to bring the three elements of Greek: Xania, Ottoman Turkish: Hanya and Venetian: Canea to create the superb town of\u00a0Chania.<\/p>\n

We ate in wonderful restaurants, walked Venetian fortresses, visited the mosques and the churches. \u00a0One Venetian palazzo was roofless but housed a quirky restaurant with trees growing in the midst of the tables. \u00a0The streets are narrow and winding, reminding us that a narrow windy path is easier to defend against pirates. \u00a0Pirates like the dreaded Barbarossa had a cave full of followers and ships not far away.<\/p>\n

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Narrow lanes, Old Town Chania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We walked the Venetian Breakwater, that was full of fisherman, families taking walks out to the lighthouse and a film crew filming a soap opera or ad.<\/p>\n

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Barbara watching the fishermen on Venetian breakwater.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The town was so beautiful that we weren’t without cameras in our hands.<\/p>\n

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photogenic Chania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barbara, wisely, decided to return home from Chania rather than sail to Kythera with us. So far we haven’t seen a ferry. \u00a0We had a wonderful dinner one street back from the waterfront.<\/p>\n

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Restaurants and bars are great in Chania, Barbara’s farewell dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sunset was wonderful and James left the boat to go and take this photo of the Venetian Lighthouse.<\/p>\n

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Chania Twilight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chania gave us a warm welcome and I can forsee a visit to Crete without a yacht to walks its gorges and canyons and see the middle and southern part of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it takes a combination of elements to bring out the best in a place, a person or a task. Cania seems to bring the three elements of Greek: Xania, Ottoman Turkish: Hanya and Venetian: Canea to create the superb town of\u00a0Chania. We ate in wonderful restaurants, walked Venetian fortresses, visited the mosques and the … Continue reading Chilling in Chania<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,48,42,26,47,41,6,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-art-and-sculpture","category-boats","category-greece","category-greek-islands","category-travel","category-venetians"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-Fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}