Pt2 - 9: CRETE We’d not been in Chania (Khar-nia) a day when the clouds parted and the warm sun sucked up the shallow puddles along the old Venetian waterfront. It didn’t take a lot of imagination to visualise small sailing ships riding gently on the tide and to hear the sounds of the busy commercial district at the eastern end of the sheltered harbour echoing across the water. At the local maritime museum there’s a richly detailed scale model of the old Venetian port which shows not much has changed here in the last two hundred odd years. A stroll out to the little lighthouse at the end of the breakwater offered a view back across the harbour to the colourful strand and what might literally have been the face of 18 th century Venice. In the middle distance the dramatic Lefka Ori, or White Mountains, lived up to their snow-covered name. Like all the accommodation in Old Chania, The Captain Vassilis was a large Venetian house converted to a hotel. Built in the 1780s, it was r...
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