Well hello from a very sunny and warm Crete. In this
video we're going to explore the town of Agios
Nikolaos. We're staying at the hotel and resort
Miramare which is on the far side of the town and
that beach there is where they've got their own sun beds
and umbrellas for the resort. So we're gonna
walk from the Miramare hotel into the centre of town
and explore Agios Nikolaos. If you're expecting half an hour of
drone footage you'll be disappointed because we're
filming what you actually see when you visit unless you
come in by helicopter, anyway, let's go!
So let's start the walk we're outside the Miramare hotel resort
their own little beach is about three minutes that way
where you can rent sun beds and umbrellas
and just there is a pretty little shingle beach
which is quite popular yeah but we're walking along the road
into town let's go, let's go.
So there's the hotel and the road we just walked down
and there's some other restaurants along here
and the walk's about 10 minutes 10 to 15
minutes.
Despite being hot there's quite a nice sea breeze.
It's not very humid either not but we did choose
midday, one of the hottest times to do with this walk.
Ss you can see by the top of my head it's getting quite shiny,
like a conker. You'll come across a lot of wild cats
who don't want to be on film? On the way you go past the cemetery
which must be one of the prettiest cemeteries we've seen
and at night they have little candles yeah, they're all lit up at night.
A cemetery with a view.
Just listen to those insects like i said it's only a 10 minute walk
into town and pretty soon we'll be turning right
to the sea.
So you can walk into town that way but we're gonna do a right
down here which doesn't look that inspiring
but at the end, you'll get your first glimpse of sea.
There are lots of little cafes and bars and they're not that expensive are
they. Yeah just because they're on the
seafront don't think they're going to be really
expensive.
So the marina's over there and you've got the the chorus of mopeds.
So this is one of the main streets hence the traffic
and we're leading up to the town square.
Well we're in the centre of town don't be too put off by the traffic
because we are sort of mid-day in the center
of the commercial area so uh once you get down to the harbor or the lake it's
much quieter isn't it.
So we've escaped the traffic and we're walking down
the pedestrianized area back towards the
harbour.
Mel's been attracted to a gift shop should we go down there
if we take a left we go down to a little area
known as the lake.
So this little area is known as the lake so what do you think of this little area?
The lake it's lovely, a lot of bars and restaurants.
Lots of places to sit outside
and eat and drink yeah yeah and that's what we're gonna do yes stop for a drink.
It's really hot yes, I'm not complaining
but we definitely need a drink and ice cream I think, we left a storm in
Wales. Anyway let's have a sit down,
Comfortable now?
What we ordered, Mel strawberry ice cream cream
something that we can share, Mel's gone with the ice cream yes
I've got to take a bite it's just all cream.
Nice cream,
So we left the lake and just one street away
is the harbour it's the more commercial harbour as you can see by the fishing
boats.
Just look at the color of that water.
So Melissa what is the fridge magnet situation like? It's about one euro for a fridge magnet that's a bit mass
produced and the nicer ones are about 1.50 which is quite a good price really.
Thank you that's very reasonable thank you Melissa our fridge magnet
correspondent, live from Crete, thank you.
And now we're coming back round to the lake again.
And just to the right,
that's the lake.
What we have noticed is we're filming this
the last week in August and the crowd levels feel like it's the
start or the end of the season yeah yeah it's very quiet even in the
evenings the restaurants, even the busy ones are like half full
and we're having coffee by the lake there and
there was hardly anybody in any of them, just a handful of people in each one.
yeah so which is good for us it's a good time to come.
If you don't mind taking precautions yeah face masks indoors
Anyway you want to go in the gift shop don't you and buy some rubbish.
Go on then, olive oil soap.
The dreaded Ouzo, Don't worry there is a mini train
but is it running, it looks like it's parked up.
it's the sts fun train do you have to have fun?
iI's compulsory to have fun
There's a lot of little bays and beaches around the resort aren't there.
That little area fenced off down there is to protect
turtle eggs. So now we're walking back to the centre
of town and then we're going to go down along the coast back to
the Miramare Hotel and resort, so Mel yeah how was that trip? Hot, hot yeah
but we've seen the town, it's good actually, it's quite interesting
it's our first time here and we've got a week to explore so
that's Agios Nikolaos, Bye for now.
Bye