Oct 2, 2025
It could be considered a crime to head straight for the beautiful blue flag beaches because the old town is said to be the prettiest in Greece. However, a couple of hours of relaxing might fit in nicely and there will be time. You can walk around from the harbour to Nea Chora which is a fantastic beach with bars and dining. See our film for the seafood platter!
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▬ Contents of this CSCI part ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Shuttle Bus
0:14 - Bus Stop in Town
0:26 - Old Market
0:50 - Cathedral
1:20 - Folklore Museum
2:20 - Segway + Trike
2:41 - Horse + Carriage
3:10 - Venetian Harbour
4:00 - Maritime Museum
4:14 - Lighthouse
4:30 - City Walls
4:55 - Beaches
5:35 - Lunch on the beach
5:45 - Preview Mykonos
7:22 - Preview Split
8:02 - Preview Zadar as CSCI drama starts
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another lovely sunny day and we're off
to find the bus for Hanya
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the bus from the cruise ship will drop
you off just in this Square opposite the
statue and right across from the Old
Market which is the Heart of the City
it's being rebuilt at the moment the
original Marketplace was completed in
1913 not that long ago but it does
commemorate the year when Crete was
United with Greece we're going to follow
the sign towards the old town which is
over there and hopefully we're going to
find the cathedral the Cathedral of
bisonium was built on the site of an
older Temple of the presentation of the
Virgin Mary when the Turks occupied
chanya it was converted into a soap
Factory and now it's back to a cathedral
again
[Music]
thank you
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the entrance to the folklore museum is
through the Catholic Church tunnel and
it's in the courtyard of the Catholic
Church you go up the stairs to the
entrance
foreign
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Segway Tours open at 10 o'clock
another way to see hania is on a bike
trip tours
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foreign
Carriage 15 minutes 20 euros
off the main shopping Road there are the
usual little Alleyways with the
beautiful orange trees and outdoor
dining
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[Applause]
thank you
Venetian Harbor is a brilliant place to
sit and have a coffee and people watch
don't buy your fridge magnet as soon as
you get off the bus wait until you get
to the Venetian Harbor because at the
top they're two euros and here they're
one euro
foreign
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you've come to the Maritime Museum of
Crete
the walkways have great views
the Lighthouse at the entrance to the
Venetian Harbor is said to be the oldest
lighthouse in the world
all right
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the Byzantine wall was built to protect
the city in their Hellenistic period and
it was built on the ancient ruins of
hidonia
[Laughter]
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if you walk away from the harbor past
Hop On Hop off bus stop number one along
to bus stop number two you'll pass the
swimming pool you'll come to a fishing
Village and a beach and it's an easy
walk
thank you
I would definitely recommend near horror
Beach you can walk here and it's
beautiful the water's clear perfect
place to spend a few hours
alternatively in the distance you can
see Chrissy acty Beach
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delish
we've actually arrived in Mykonos it's
the first time we've got in and now we
can get the shuttle bus which is over
there with the tour coaches or we can
get the sea bus which is two euros
if you want to visit delos the sacred
Island which is an island of ruins go at
10 o'clock in the morning you'll be back
by 1 30 and then you'll have time to
visit Mykonos during the rest of the day
so the ship stops up here and the
shuttle bus took us all around the Bay
and we've stopped about here and we're
going off to explore this is what's in
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Within the Ruins is a photographic
exhibition depicting scenes from 1955.
it's worth a look
it's stunning everywhere you look it's
like out of a storybook
close to the ship there's apparently a
monastery at the point
there's a beach very nearby
and very close to the ship there's a
small Beach
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there's two ships in Split today the MSC
Symphonia and the piano Azura please
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channel guess where we are we're in
split and if you want to pick up the
free walking tour
it's up here so we found the free spirit
walking tour free you just give a tip at
the end so this massive statue behind me
is Gregory of Neen and you're supposed
to rub his toe for luck the special
thing about this palette is that people
actually live here and have been for
about 1500 years this area is The
Killing Zone we saw it in Troy these
substructures or basements were where
they filmed the places where the Dragons
Were kept in Game of Thrones I guess you
have to feel sorry for Kieran Phillips
he has no idea what he's walking into
he's not a detective and he knows
nothing about cruise ships he's just a
guy in the wrong place at the wrong time
for what he thought was a good reason
but this is where you Embark the story
bring your friends while there's still a
few cabins left
check under the bed
chapter one problem
I'm Commander Kieran Phillips or was
I've been discharged from my military
service not that the Army uses that term
nowadays
there won't be much paperwork on it
there never was much paperwork on
anything they had me do
I can sense when something's very wrong
but the real skill is to figure out what
it is before it kills you maybe I'm
overthinking things suffering from no
longer being in military service but
something feels wrong
maybe I need more therapy but I used to
be paid to feel this right the hairs on
the back of my neck the sensitive skin
under my ears and on my cheeks sense
danger the pressure the texture and the
temperature
the air in this small plane has been
less fresh than on my long-haul flight
but now the doors must be open people
are reaching overhead for their bags
hurrying to queue to leave like so many
young soldiers I watched rush in Under
Fire when a cool head might have saved
them they're Keen to get off
their bulky hand luggage appears too
heavy
relocation amass Exodus from Colombia to
Costa Rica perhaps they're Hawkers off
to sell to tourists on the beaches and
this excess hand luggage is their stock
that would explain the impatience every
minute lost is a missed sale
stand up and join the queue I tell
myself but I remain fixed in the
penultimate row at the rear of the plane
the larger part of me is not ready to
stop profiling others and join civilians
I never asked to be a real civilian
I change planes for the second time in
Cartagena after a long flight across the
Atlantic so I'll have to wait for my
checked in case if it managed to follow
me my hand luggage is two uniforms
parade for a casual event and ceremonial
for formal evenings plus black boots
none of that leaves my side now but I
can no longer replace it everything else
I own is replaceable and stowed below
hopefully
I'm wearing sivi hiking boots just in
case I can get to see bralio Carrillo
National Park before we sail I'm ready
to dump bags and run although I suspect
that's a long shot a travel day often
vanishes and so far this has been two
days three planes I feel the heat now
but I'm used to that
I convinced myself that the Queue at
immigration then await at baggage
reclaim will put me behind the
semi-locals with their excess hand
luggage arguments at customs so I should
stay put but the real reason is the
woman behind me I can't turn and look
but I noticed earlier she's built like
an athlete wide shoulders toned arms she
hasn't moved either an athlete would be
up and in this race she however has a
worrying coolness
and is waiting for something
chapter 2 on my six
no one should be carrying a weapon even
though this is South America they went
through security except Airline security
can be a joke did you pack your own
luggage are you carrying anything Sharp
I only have a sharpened wooden pencil
with which I could slay a vampire the
problem is vampires don't exist but
pencils kill
soldiers who've been trained to spot and
deal with terrorists are being laid off
from the forces and they can't get jobs
back in the UK
no country ever wants their military
back they train them to kill then don't
know what to do with them
ex-soldiers would be better off getting
Refugee status than adding to the urban
homeless On Bended Knee
I can't think of a more fitting
description for them than Refugee a
displaced person who has been forced to
cross National boundaries and who cannot
return home safely
the plane begins to empty time to stand
and join in at a little over six feet
tall I have no problem sliding my suit
bag out from the overhead compartment
the woman behind me is still biding her
time waiting and watching
I smile politely I'm encouraging her to
go first but she's not moving
I don't like anyone on my six it appears
neither of us feel comfortable with
somebody behind us
to lose her I cross the two empty middle
seats and become the last in the queue
on the other side of the plane
she's tall standing up has a short
sleeve white shirt easy skirt cut just
below the knee and flat shoes we catch
eyes again she has a solid stance and
could be military we exchange and
knowing nod before I turn to the older
couple in front who are blocking me the
man is struggling with their case in the
overhead Locker he could be a descendant
of the Toltec Aztec omayan people who
are often short but age has made him
shorter
the couple looked like they've been
together forever and I bet he used to
get their case down with ease
a life partner in my line of work would
have been a risk someone who could have
been used to get to me a weakness
or is that just a feeble excuse for me
to avoid real life I'm not excuses now
I'm Mr Joe public after join a cruise
ship
I slide their case out and lower it for
them she offers me a grateful smile
preoccupies Amigo I say
they squeeze past a tall lady about my
age
her clear Spanish skin Vivid dark hair
and Clear Eyes make it hard to judge her
age
she laughs at me and I'm captured by her
beauty what did you say she asks
I said no worries
no you said worry my friend like you
were going to kill them she laughs
Amiga is what you should have said
the older lady says understanding my
error but her husband moves away quickly
she catches my eye then looks at a man
still asleep in the window seat
I am confused what is that I asked my
translator he said thank you she offers
I got that bit I'm I mean the other
nothing she says smirking she's holding
back my look demands an answer she said
you were handsome very handsome she's
old must be going blind
her look demands I lift her bag down to
return the favor I'd become a baggage
handler
I was one for a while at Beirut
International Airport when working under
cover before the attacks before the name
was changed to Beirut Rafiq hirari
International Airport
if the sleeper is her husband why
doesn't she wake him why doesn't he lift
her bag
no she shows no connection and her
clothes are far more expensive than his
they can't be together
I retrieve her case immediately I know
why she left it for me it's very heavy
she guides me to rest it on her other
wheeled bag that she will pull off the
plane no wedding ring but age spots on
her hands maybe I should have offered to
carry her case for her it's not a
foreign weapon left in a Jeep as an
attractive Keepsake cable to trigger
pounds of nasty explosive I should have
tried harder maybe that's why I'm still
single but why has she three bags of
hand luggage why does everybody have so
much junk
I'm looking for trouble that isn't here
perhaps she'll be on my ship I Ponder
but then again why would guests be
joining a ship here in mid Cruise
being sociable I lean over to wake the
guy by the window but he doesn't move I
touch his skin and it's cold he's dead I
felt bodies like this before it was good
I found him and not the Latina sitting
next to him he's not young but Too Young
To Die the last time I touched a dead
body it was a child spread eagle on the
street and I was helpless
that child was one too many and I knew I
had to get out
I reach above him and press the button
to call the attendant
there's nothing I can do to help him
there's a lot I could do to help the
children living in the streets of Syria
but that was not why I was deployed
there
the attendant arrives against the flow
of people and breaks my wandering
thoughts
he sings in a deep sleep I hope he's
okay
the attendant reaches over and comes to
the same conclusion I did
but he doesn't want to engage in any
kind of Hysteria either you can go sir
I've got this the young man says
it seems he is used to dead bodies as
well