I always want to visit Crete as it considered one of the most beautiful and distinctive Greek islands. Crete offers its splendid seashores, ancient treasures and mountain villages, where locals share their unique traditions and cuisine.
My husband and I finally booked our first trip there for a week and I would love to share my experiences with you all on Steemit.
Day 1
After almost 4 hours' journey with Easyjet airlines, we finally arrived in Heraklion airport at around 10pm in the evening (Greek time is 2 hours' ahead of UK time).
At the front desk within airport, we collected our rental car and headed straight to our hotel in Malia. Malia is to the east of the region of Iraklio and it took us approximately one hour to arrive at our destination, the Socrates Hotel.
A dark, handsome young man called George welcomed us at reception. His spoke pretty good English which we were so relieved about, lol. After a brief introduction to the hotel, George gave us our room key as he could plainly see how tired we were.
Socrates Hotel Reception
Although it was midnight, both of our tummies rumbled with hunger pangs so we decided to head out and hunt for some food at midnight. On the way out, we quickly checked out the hotel with the night lights turn on. It looked stunning!
After a few minutes short walk, we arrived at the famous Club Street where the night life of Malia lives! The main strip is chock a block with bars, pubs and high-energy clubs filled with teenage and adolescent boys and girls from aboard.
One restaurant caught our attention with its vivid advertising board full of delicious food, this is Pepper's street food bar. (@papa-pepper, is there something you're not telling us? Lol.). They served a wide array of tasty dishes from traditional wood oven pizzas to more common local foods.
We had the Pull-pork burrito, Jack Daniels Burger and chilli beef fries. All tasted great, especially those fries that I've never tasted before!
Chilli Beef Fries
Jack Daniel's Burger
Pull-Pork Burrito
Homemade Lemonade
The meal, atmosphere and weather was simply superb! What a great way to end our first day's stay in Malia, Crete! Cannot wait to see what the next 7 days here holds! Till next time...
(To be continued)
哇，灰机和汉堡
绝好的配搭，呵呵。
Really killer blue you captured in that pool shot!
I could not agree more, that blue was amazing at night !! Thank you @jhermanbeans.
I agree with @jhermanbeans
btw, have fun
and for the love of you
watch the calories :D
Mmmmmm you had me at the fries...and I'm glad you had a great time. the hotel looks awsome ... +1 follow from me. And please more fries photos 😎yumm.
Yes the fries were so delicious that we finished the whole bowl and did not have much room left for the burger and Burrito, haha.
Thank you for following me and I will surely post more lovely food photos from the trip :)
Nice! Can't wait to see those😎
So nice a place that one week is not enough huh.
I know, now I wish I had booked for longer, hehe. There is always next time though!
Thank you for stopping by!
You're welcome
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Thank you @mohit.
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Crete is great! If you have the chance go to Elafonissos beach. It's beautiful :)
Elafonissos beach is a MUST SEE place in Crete. It is been scheduled in my itinerary for later this week.
Thank you @gococonuts for your kind suggestions.
I've Upvoted for sure. happy to meet you in this big family.
looking forward to your next post.
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Nice to meet you too @fatkid and thank you for the comment :)
I roar with envy, because I wasn't on vacation 2 years :(
and I'm sincerely happy for you :)
I did not have a Summer vacation last year too, but hey you can always make time for the next one!
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Thank you for your nice comment. Will check out your articles later.
That pool looks so inviting!
Thanks. I always love hanging around the pool whenever I go to hot countries :)
@rea, very nice place, looking forward to more pictures!
very nice place..
Beautiful pics as always ;)
Seems like you had a good time. Greece is on my travel list, but haven't decided on the exact place.
The island of Crete seems nice.
Anyone else hungry after checking out that burger and fries? lol
It's so awesome to be included in yours and @ezzy's trip, I'm so glad you shared it with us! Amazing pictures!
很漂亮的图片！期待你的旅行
谢谢。
I use to go to Crete when I was a kid- I looks so nice there- I guess I forgot how nice it was- thanks for sharing the pics.
I have lots of Thailand- have you ever been ?
Hi Rea, I am new to Steemit as of yesterday and it's great to see - on one of my first voyages through the topics and content on this already fascinating platform - posts about my ancestral home. I have visited Crete many a time, having a father from a small village called Hamezi, in the city of Sitia in eastern Crete ... so I very much look forward to seeing what you have to say!
Just amazing !!!:)))