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Plakias / verdict
« on: October 17, 2005, 06:10:17 PM »
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i am surprised you picked Francokastelli as your favourite beach, we stayed there for one night but weren't very impressed, to my mind it doesn't compare with the 'far end' of plakias beach
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Maybe you're thinking of the town beach?

There's a long, duny, undeveloped and quite beautiful beach to the east of the town (at least it was still undeveloped in, er, 1991).

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: October 16, 2005, 09:09:21 PM »
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real ale and greek sun just don't seem to go together, do they 

oddly enough, IPA was originally brewed to be shipped out to the troops in India - hence the name India Pale Ale ...

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Gossip / Loving Crete
« on: October 15, 2005, 08:56:54 AM »
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NB We have been globetrotters in the early 70 's by profession, however then never realised that Crete was one of the best places (or most likely THE BEST PLACE) to be.

Crete definitely has an appeal for global travelling types.

On my first evening in Bombay in January 1991, I met a Canadian couple who had been swimming at Damnoni a few days previously.  Then at Plakias youth hostel later that year, setting off to the beach with three fellow hostellers, it turned out that all of us had been to India.

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Plakias / Late Oct Trip
« on: October 11, 2005, 06:01:55 PM »
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welcome to the forum

the guides accompanying the maps are written by Lance Chiltern, who has written two walking guides for the Plakias area

chilten web site

these are available from Stanfords, if you have one near you (and in Plakias supermarket)
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You can't always rely on the Plakias supermarkets to carry the latest editions - better to stock up before you go.

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Plakias / Late Oct Trip
« on: October 11, 2005, 05:32:09 PM »
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In the low season would make the following plan:
Take the bus/car to Chora Sfakion


Sadly there is no bus from Plakias to Chora Sfakion - I don't think it has ever run in the low season, but this year they didn't run it in the summer either blaming insufficient demand.

This has cropped up on a number of threads this year.  See

http://www.bus-service-crete-ktel.com/timetables.html

for current bus info.

Having said that, October would be a great time to walk the gorge (weather permitting) as it will be relatively cool and you won't be troubled by the tourist hordes.

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Gossip / Replacement E111
« on: October 06, 2005, 09:39:51 PM »
If you applied for an E111 in the last year or so they send you the card automatically - I got mine the other day.

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: October 06, 2005, 07:49:02 PM »
Thought folk might be interested in this Eurostar promo:

"Collect four passwords from the Telegraph starting Saturday 8th October, and you can get two Eurostar tickets for the price of one"

An incentive to sample Belgian beers in their native habitat.

Of course it means actually buying the Telegraph ...

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: October 03, 2005, 11:06:31 AM »
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Guess this one then.

Its in a black and white tin with a lions head on it, its 4.1% and you get eight for a fiver at my local shop and i only have one left!

                                  Barny.
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You got me there Barny, but it's interesting how many beers are associated with lions and other wild beasts: Lowenbrau, Singha, Everards Tiger, Tiger beer from Malaysia (?) as immortalised by Anthony Burgess, and so on.

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: October 02, 2005, 07:57:09 PM »
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La Trappe 
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Correct!  Not many folk outside Holland (or even Brabant) know this...

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: October 02, 2005, 05:53:20 PM »
A mini-quiz for all you beer bores  

The other night I enjoyed a bottle of the only Trappist beer brewed in the Netherlands.

What was I drinking?

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Plakias / Reporting In
« on: September 29, 2005, 04:07:11 PM »
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a wait of over an hour with only 2 other couples in there, staff were discurtious and scruffy
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that's a shame, this kind of "service" is something I've always found to be very rare in Crete though not uncommon in other Greek islands.

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PlakChat / general lowdown on plakias
« on: September 27, 2005, 04:11:59 PM »
Anyone in the Brighton/Peacehaven area might like to know about the Hanover Beer Festival on Sat 1st/Sun 2nd October, ie this coming weekend, at the Hanover Community Centre, Southover St, Brighton.

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Gossip / New kid on the block
« on: September 26, 2005, 09:06:48 AM »
Just curious - any other old backpackers/island hoppers out there?  For instance, anyone ever stayed at the old Plakias youth hostel, opposite where they built the new church on the way into the village?  (by "new" I mean it was built in 1991-2)

I know one guy I met there in 1991 still comes back every year though his hostelling days are behind him.  Comes to us all in the end.

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Gossip / New kid on the block
« on: September 25, 2005, 02:35:39 PM »
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PS - for Saga Louts do NOT read Malia. We are a very respectable bunch (I'm told) 
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When I started coming to Plakias in the 1980s it was mostly backpackers - now the place seems to be overrun with respectable Saga types.

Scary thought - are they perhaps the same people?

     

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PlakChat / Beer, Beer we want more beer
« on: September 16, 2005, 10:20:06 PM »
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When in GB I prefer to drink Guinnes stout. I have also  tasted some really good ales, and I have a question to you who sit on the expertise: what is the difference between Real Ale and Pale Ale?
  
Tom
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I'm not claiming to be expert so I'll quote some people who do.

The term "Real Ale" was invented by a pressure group called the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA): here's a definition from their website www.camra.org.uk

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Real ale is beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide.

Real ale is also known as 'cask-conditioned beer', 'real cask ale', 'real beer' and 'naturally conditioned beer'.


Pale ale is a particular style of beer; there's also India Pale Ale, Light Ale, Brown Ale and so on, you can read definitions at the website of Michael Jackson (no, not that one): [a href=\"http://www.beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html]http://www.beerhunter.com/beerstyles.html[/url]


Hope this helps.

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