Chania again

 

The bus took a slightly different route and we passed the ferry dock at Souda.

I noticed this down the side of a building. The hours posted in the window indicated it should have been open but a woman came to the door and said it was closed until March 20. When I asked why she made a mixing motion with her hands that I took to mean they were changing the exhibit. Maybe I will come back in my last week here.

Man with a pet bunny, asking for money "for its food".

We took a different route than last time, wandering down narrow streets lined with shops...some touristy, some not.

We were planning on going to the Maritime Museum and I didn't want to cut it short because I was hungry so we stopped to eat.

While waiting for our order I took a photo of the beer glasses on a neighbouring table. 3 U.S. Navy sailors on shore leave. We noticed groups of them strolling the town.

My shrimp and avocado salad and Rick's burger.

We took our time going through the old town

to the harbour. It was a grey, misty day, threatening rain.

There was some sort of major construction going on at the entrance to the Maritime Museum so we couldn't go in. Another reason for me to return.

Walked back around the harbour

past the old Venetian buildings

and the Venetian ship building and storage sheds

which are mostly large Pigeon coops now.

One has been renovated into a bar with

the Chania Sailing Club on the second floor

offering, among other things, a sailing school for kids, on Optomists and Lasers.

The bar lets you take a drink on the long walk out to the lighthouse.

We made the walk without the beverage.

Taking photos of the town with its snowy mountain backdrop.

They must have had an excess of cannons to use them like this along the breakwall walk.

It was a pity it was such a grey day

because the town is

quite colourful

We walked all the way back around to

where I sketched, the first time we came.

Up into a different section of the old town

and got an ice cream next to a place the  gives pedicures

using fish!

We had just missed a bus back so had to while away an hour waiting for the next one.