In June 2017 hubby and I spent our first vacation on the beautiful Greek island Crete. We explored most of the island by car and discovered the ancient sites and its beautiful nature. Our travelagency also offered excursions by bus, one of which was a trip to the Imbros Gorge, a popular gorge for walkers.
An 8 km rocky path descends from 600 meter above sealevel, almost to the coast of the Libian Sea. The gorge is not really steep, but pretty narrow (2 meters at one point) and offers a wide variety of flowers. I took my time to enjoy the wonderful world of the gorge and loved every minute of that hike! I wanted to do more of that!
That same year we went back to Crete, together with my brother and sister-in-law, and this time on top of my to-do list was hiking the Samaria gorge!
The Samaria gorge, a 16 km pretty steep rocky path going down from 1230 meters above sealevel direct to the coast of the Libian Sea, is definitely more difficult than the Imbros gorge! But so worth it and its beauty is amazing!
It took us 6 hours to get to the coast, and I won’t say that I wasn’t glad when we finally saw the sea, but this hike gave me so much energy, I didn’t even feel the pain in my shins and feet! The only thing I thought of was to do more of this stuff!
In october 2018 hubby and I went to Crete for the third time. No gorge to hike down this time, but 137 meters going up to an old Venetian fort on Gramvousa. Not such a spectacular hike, but since it was part of an excursion, it needed to be done in limited time. However, it felt great and the views from the top were amazing.
Meanwhile I participated in the Munro Step Challenge of My Peak Challenge and managed to complete the whole list of munrosteps while we were on Crete.
Imbross Gorge 
Samaria Gorge 
Gramvousa Fortress
Take a walk! 