Macro-exploring Malia, Crete

So, if you have read the previous post and didn’t get scared (or just skipped it), let’s now focus on my favourite part of this place.

I read Gerald Durrell’s “My Family and Other Animals” just a couple of years ago and longed for everything in it (except for the scorpions): the big family and the love for each other, the starry sky and warm nights, solo boat trips along the coast of Corfu and the smell of herbs in the hot sun. And although Malia in 2017 is probably rather far from rural Corfu in 1930s, I feel that I found so many elements here.

The Usual Malia, Crete

The thing about Malia is that it’s totally two-faced, so I decided to write two entries about it. Let’s begin with the conventional one. 

The spring was really delayed in Lithuania this year. We had a white Christmas, white New Year, white Easter in the end of April, and I had enough. After waking up one more day and seeing it was frosty during the night in the end of April, I checked our low-cost travel website makalius.lt, found an charter suitable for Mark (not too hot, EU = good health insurance, preferably sandy beach) and suitable for my budget (340 euro all in, with breakfast and dinners) and off we go to Malia, Crete.