The location of the house is the very best, tranquil, as it is equally removed from the sometimes boisterous square with many nice cafés (which we enjoyed visiting at other times) and the other end of the small village, where restaurants and cafés (besides meals, drinks etc.) also offer various kinds of music and entertainment. Sitting in the evening and at night on the very nice balcony of the house, overlooking the sea and some islands, watching the stars come out and the moon rising, sipping the wine you have chosen from the local supermarket, well, you can hardly ask for more.
You can easily prepare a nice uncomplicated meal in the small kitchen and enjoy the evening at home, if you do not want to go out every night. There are many restaurants and also a good number that will provide you with a remarkably nice dinner (and very nice wines to choose from). The kitchen offers what is neccesary for cooking a meal; a few more smaller coffee cups would be nice, as well as glasses, but you can also do what we did, buy yourself some very nice stoneware cups in one of the shops in town and enjoy supporting the local trade and Cretan handcraft. A lovely souvenir to take home. (The same goes for a chopping board, actually; but then again, you can have a very nice board of olive wood in one of the shops).
On the groung floor of the house you can enjoy the semi-shade in the patio (below the balcony) in the morning. The sun is filtered through leaves of fig and almond trees and you can still enjoy the great views of the sea and the islands to the east. From about one pm there will be a comfortable shade on the balcony. You enter the balcony, which offers even nicer views, from the bedroom on the first floor and at night you have a look of the stars and the moon through the door and in the morning the sun will wake you up, when it rises above the higher islands to the northeast.
Furthermore, you must go to one of the beaches; we chose Micros Mourtias, a small beach in an cove with a lovely sandy seabed. The old mule track leading down there from the town is a wonderful experience in itself.
Alltogether, we had a lovely sixteen days vacation in this little yellow house, perfectly suited for two people wanting to go to a most beautiful island in the Aegean Sea.
