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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Visiting Chania and the Samaria Gorge in Greece with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget


Visiting Chania and the Samaria Gorge in Greece with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget


My husband Laurent and I visited the town of Chania on the Greek Island of Crete on one of our Greek vacation days.

The seafront at Chania is set up so you can walk along comfortably without motorbikes or scooters zooming beside you.

We went to the Historical Museum in Chania, which was very well documented in the Greek language. 

We were the only tourists there.  Most of the museum was devoted to the Resistance Movement during World War II in photos.

“That was a great visit for not being able to read anything in Greek,” I said to Laurent as we left.

He laughed.  We both wished we had a Greek friend to translate for us.  The same was true when we went to the Maritime Museum.

Natural wonders not cultural wonders were on our agenda the following day as we planned to go to the Samaria Gorge.

I was wearing heels and not hiking boots, so I kept slipping in the Gorge on the way down.

I went topside to a café and read while my husband Laurent continued down six kilometers to the bottom of the Gorge.

I read the Greek history book I bought while sipping lemon soda.  When Laurent returned, he had some soda in the air-conditioned café, too. 

Our last place to visit was the Monastery at Moni Prevelli, which was another Resistance movement refuge during World War II.


We toured the site and admired the mountain scenery before getting ready for our flights to Athens and Paris the next day.

Our beach holiday turned out to be cultural and educational as well as a much needed rest from long hours at our Parisian jobs.

By Ruth Paget, Author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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