Exploration day. We're in a little studio (have been upgraded because the studio booked was smaller - must have been really tiny. The bed fits well largely because it's three inches narrower than a standard double. Very cosy. Greek style loo, with the shower unenclosed - make sure towels and toilet roll are out of the way and depend on the central drain. Basic kitchen, once the daughter of the house has been assured that we do intend to cook and fetched the little burner/oven combo. The oven probably works, but if you move the unit to a point where the little fridge would not obstruct its door the cord wouldn't reach the socket. But there is a quaint charm about the place. No tv but pretty good wifi, which we'd always choose over tv.
We're just behind the harbour. In fact the houses on the other side of our lane back onto the harbour - or front onto the harbour and back onto our street, depending on point of view. Our place was apparently built in the Venetian era, over 500 years ago, fairly typical of the neighbourhood. There was a major earthquake in 1595 that did significant damage to the old town, as well as devastation caused by a week's concentrated bombing during 1941, but many old buildings remain in use and some have been restored to period.
We left Canada a month ago today, and for the first time we can cook, so priority number one - after a walk along the harbour front - is the little supermarket near the top of Halidon Street. Very few processed foods, a modest produce section, northern wall almost entirely Greek wine, mostly Cretan. Prices good enough to gamble hopefully on quality. Whole grain spaghetti and bread, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes and spinach - as well as extra virgin olive oil and tomato puree and tinned chopped tomatoes. And oranges and a bottle of Cretan cabernet sauvignon. Still have cheese. Lovely doing our own meals again and the wine, rather to our surprise, is very good.