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Things You Won’t Read in the Guidebooks

22 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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Chania, Georgio Armani, Greece, Main yacht

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Two weeks. That’s how long we’ve been in Chania. We’ve pretty well scoured the city (it’s small: population ~55,000) and are now taking an inventory of all the beaches within a day’s outing. Louise is learning the language (note the absence of the plural “we”), and we’re becoming gourmands, having now visited – oh, I dunno – maybe 500 local restaurants. (Lord, thank you for the food on this island.)

But now, some of the things we’ve learned (and that you won’t read in the guidebooks) about the local culture:

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