Dave and Les, Thank you - and you have a safe journey too.  We will probably end up sitting next to each other in a taverna or on the beach, and not know!   This will be our fifth trip to Crete and our third to Plakias, so we have a bit of catching up to do (although we have been to the southern Peloponnese around 20 times).  We have been to Plakias at May half-term previously, so expect it will be busier in August.  We love the Paligremnos taverna for lunch - if we are not having gyros and retsina at the souvlaki hut.