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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Gorgona
« on: October 14, 2014, 08:17:21 PM »
Agree with all of the above; perhaps the comment re size of helping is interestingly.

By trying to be hospitable, I think that some places can spoil a meal, for me at least. I have a good appetite, but being faced with mountains of food really puts me off! I know that others on this forum disagree.

That said, much better than the opposite, I suppose, and I haven't ever found that tavernas try and skimp on main courses by laying out large but filling first courses. Plakias remains a remarkable, genuinely hospitable, place, to my mind.

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PlakChat / Re: Dentist
« on: September 30, 2014, 09:36:42 PM »
Glad to hear that all is (relatively) OK. Minor cracks can be very painful but difficult to 'diagnose', the amoxicillin may merely be a precaution, it is a fairly generic antibiotic.

Have a drink for me, if you will!

Kalinixta

Richard

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PlakChat / Re: Dentist
« on: September 28, 2014, 05:03:40 PM »
Really don't want to lecture, but please don't rely on hope, painkillers and antibiotics. I have spent nearly thirty years in dental research in academia and industry, and suppose I know what I am talking about, but despite this, I have done so myself and regretted it.

Please see a dentist again before you leave, and if you don't, PLEASE go straight to the dentist on arrival in Plakias.

One of the antibiotics commonly prescribed for infected teeth rules out drinking (are you on this already, metronidazole?). Even if you ignore your physician's advice and do drink, you will feel like absolute cr@p. Can't think of anything worse while in Plakias!

Whatever, best wishes for a happy holiday in Plakias, very jealous, had hoped to go this month but isn't going to happen.

(Dr) Richard

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PlakChat / Re: We're back (again) October 2014
« on: September 26, 2014, 05:39:57 PM »
I am so jealous.... We managed May this year and had hoped to return Sept/Oct, but unfortunately work commitments mean that this hasn't been possible.

We did visit late April one year, but never as early as March. Just one question if I could?

I can read the weather statistics online, of course, like anybody else, but I would very much appreciate your thoughts on what the weather was actually like, i.e. how did it 'feel'. This is impossible to divine from mere numbers.

Richard

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Nikos (?) fish and chips
« on: August 28, 2014, 10:17:32 PM »
Yes, two years now. I feel a bit sorry for the poor old moggy in there, seems used to human company but just haunts the place looking lonely on the other side of the glass.

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Agree completely with charming, there's something about the owner/staff/location that I can't quite put my finger on, but that I like a lot. Maybe they could seem a little more amateurish than staff at the water-front tavernas, with 'touts' outside the tavernas between Nufaro and Christos, although, if so, I find this more genuine, friendly, and very much preferable.

Even more charming than usual, this spring. Owner - afraid don't know his name - sat down and drank a couple of Rakis with us, and other diners, without being at all intrusive; this is something that Iamvery particular about also,where other people have 'personal space', I have a three-mile exclusion zone! Altogether, nice evening all round

Food was very good, nothing outstanding, perhaps, in a place where grilled meat is generally simple but excellent, but haven't ever been disappointed, all the same. The smell of the grilling meat itself is lovely!

Maybe a personal preference? No accounting for taste, so I won't preach, but I'll go again the next time that I'm in Plakias.

Richard

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Sofia Restaurant - Avoid
« on: August 28, 2014, 09:53:05 PM »
...or Gio Ma, or many of my other favourites.

Agreed!

The overall lack of this kind of thing in Plakias is one of the things that really appeals to me. The recent presence of it in certain places is one of the things that makes me walk along the beach between Nufaro and Christos, instead of through the 'choke-point', or 'tourist-killing zone'.

Richard

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Plakias / Re: Lance Chilton - Sad news!
« on: August 14, 2014, 06:06:08 PM »
What sad news. I didn't ever meet Lance but we did exchange notes regarding images of Plakias.
I associate his walking guides with my first visits to Plakias, and happy times, exploring the surrounding hills.

Richard.

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Holiday Companies / Re: Expedia
« on: August 06, 2014, 11:11:46 PM »
Just seen your post about flying to Crete. To save me the time in checking, does your Swissair out/Aegean back include direct to Crete, or via Athens?
I am unhappy with the prices Olympic offer but NEED to get back to Plakias next year whilst I still can!
If anyone else has any tips to reduce the cost of getting to Plakias, other than Olympic, it would be appreciated.

In a sense, your NEED to be back in Plakias sums certain things up. We all love the place - hence the forum - but because of this Olympic have a captive audience. We usually make our own way there but we fancied a quick trip at short notice last year, and (I regret) used them.

I was quoted well over £1000 when they changed the agreed flight times and I tried to revert to them. As I have stated above, probably legally, they quoted Ts and Cs, but this is entirely cynical to my mind, we are not talking major corporations here, and it is utterly beneath contempt in my view.

Perhaps a mere fantasy, but wouldn't it be good if we could arrange something amongst ourselves, at least for the popular times? OK, probably bedtime... KaliniXta.

Richard

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Plakias / Re: Best beaches, what's yours ?
« on: August 01, 2014, 08:01:23 PM »
Beaches within walking distance of Plakias, Souda is my favourite, for sure.

Two tavernas for lunch and to avoid the mid-day sun

I like to walk further round the coast when I get bored of the beach but my wife does not.The views are fantastic, the little pine grove on the hill-side is alive with seed-eating birds in the spring and the smell of the pine resin is lovely.

Lots of fish around the rocks, makes for interesting snorkelling.

Raptors (as mentioned above somewhere); lying on the beach just watching is brilliant!

Incidentally, does anyone know what is happening with the beach in the cove beyond Souda? There is some sort of pre-fab building there, some old wooden chairs, and it looks like somebody has set-up a handful of parasols, judging by the concrete 'buckets' and hollow poles sticking out of the top.

Is it only a matter of time before Souda becomes a small resort in its own right? It has expanded, albeit very slowly, over the years.

Richard


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Holiday Companies / Re: Expedia
« on: July 29, 2014, 07:59:22 PM »
Thanks for the warning. We usually make our own travel arrangements and would have considered Expedia for a September visit.

I despise this kind of cynical approach to business - in the day-to-day, if I were treated like that then I'd call it fraud - but I suppose that all we can do about it is let others know.

Smacks of Olympic's policy of taking flight bookings and then changing things whilst one is on hols, regardless of inconvenience - people stranded at Gatwick in the early hours - and possibly costs, i.e. car in  car park longer than planned.

Richard

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Sofia Restaurant - Avoid
« on: July 19, 2014, 08:43:28 PM »
Not too keen on the most recent incarnation/management, if I am honest. A little too enthusiastic when attracting custom and then much less enthusiastic with regard to service. I am going back, however, to the 'change-over' period and perhaps these were just teething problems.

Very surprised by the steak incident, though. This doesn't sound like Sofia, or like any other Plakias taverna. Maybe just a bad day? Suppose that we all have them.

Richard

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PlakChat / Re: Birds of Crete
« on: June 09, 2014, 09:23:51 PM »
Was the circle transmitted or reflected light? I think that it may have been a Golden Eagle, I saw one in the gorge this spring. Not exactly a circle, but could look very similar from a distance:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1rRQc45hy3_bMsSIwmMW5BmirqNPljuMkqaTaRHKlCkdT4whh

Looked very impressive!

Richard

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Plakias / Re: Webcam
« on: June 08, 2014, 09:38:10 PM »
Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing! A little tantalising. I've been looking all the same,hope to be back in September. Thanks for the link.

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Where to eat...or not! / Re: Traditional Greek Tavernas
« on: June 04, 2014, 08:00:27 PM »
People who care about what they are selling to their diners.... Ahhhh.

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