Over the past few weeks we have enjoyed several trips out and about exploring the local surroundings. One of these trips took us 7 miles from Aghios Nikolaos, to the largest village in Crete, Kritsa, and which is claimed by the Greek National Tourist Office to be the most beautiful and with some justification. Kritsa hangs suspended on the mountainside 1000 ft above Aghios.
On the narrow whitewashed streets of Kritsa, the women, dressed in black, conduct the business of the village and that is largely selling the leather goods, embroidery and elaborately woven rugs for which Kritsa is renowned.
The views especially at the far end of the village, over the valley to the Gulf of Mirabello are superb. The red soil is covered with well-tended groves of thousands of olive trees.
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