Crete is an amazing island, particularly during winter. Yesterday noon we left Chania for a second time under light rain. The same morning, weather was crisply sunny. We climbed on the slopes of the White Mountains (“\u039b\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03ac \u038c\u03c1\u03b7” in Greek) and descended the twisty road to “\u03a7\u03ce\u03c1\u03b1 \u03a3\u03c6\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u03c9\u03bd” – the Sfakia Land.<\/p>\n
The little port felt wet and lonely, most tavernas were closed. At Faros restaurant \u2013 which was closed \u2013 we were offered a greek coffee and some precious tips during a short chat with the owner. He advised us to drive to Agios Ioannis village \u2013 which is a dead end and stay there. We did it. It was a wet and cold night we spent inside our camper.<\/p>\n
We woke up under continuous rainfall with our roof window leaking seriously. We wanted to walk to the \u201cSelouda Balcony\u201d but the weather was not appropriate for trekking. We tried to fly our drone on the iron bridge of Aradaina, which connects the rims of a\u00a0 spectacular gorge but it was not possible either. Raining all the time. So we took the twisty tarmac road to the beach and \u2013 imagine what \u2013 the weather cleared again. It was pretty windy but we took the risk for a drone flight with views to the Libya sea and Gavdos island \u2013 the southernmost in Europe. For an hour it felt like springtime. After the flight we drove to Fragokastelo or Castelfranco, e delapidated Venetian castle. It was so windy there you couldn\u2019t stand and the castle was closed. So we decided to proceed.<\/p>\n
We drove to the east and after the Rodakino village we crossed Kotsifu gorge, under rain again. Light rain. But as soon as we crossed the narrow road passage we saw the weather getting seriously bad towards Rethimno. Black, menacing clouds promised a serious storm which arrived as soon as we arrived in town. It was so windy that we couldn\u2019t park in the port \u2013 you felt that the waves would climb the dock and enter the town. So we found a hidden parking to survive and stayed there for the following two days!<\/p>\n
This was a rare weather phenomenon in Crete, which provoked unprecedented damages to the island\u2019s infrastructure. A historic bridge was destroyed by the river\u2019s overflow.<\/p>\n
We would like all our followers who took time to write us concerned about our safety. We are safe and sound and calm!<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”3.18.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheWorldOffroad_Temperidis-DSC00619.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.22.3″][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.18.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheWorldOffroad_Temperidis-DSC00646.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.18.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheWorldOffroad_Temperidis-DSC00677-Edit.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.18.6″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/TheWorldOffroad_Temperidis-DSC00689-Edit.jpg” align_tablet=”center” align_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crete is an amazing island, particularly during winter. Yesterday noon we left Chania for a second time under light rain. The same morning, weather was crisply sunny. We climbed on the slopes of the White Mountains (“\u039b\u03b5\u03c5\u03ba\u03ac \u038c\u03c1\u03b7” in Greek) and descended the twisty road to “\u03a7\u03ce\u03c1\u03b1 \u03a3\u03c6\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u03c9\u03bd” – the Sfakia Land. The little port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,66,67],"tags":[142,164,172,174],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaries","category-europe","category-greece","tag-theworldoffroad-expedition-jamsport-podilatoeu-shockabsorbers-iveco-sponsoringgreek-en","tag-crete-en","tag-rethimno-en","tag-weather-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/TheWorldOffroad_Temperidis-DSC07877.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldoffroad.com\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}