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Sarah Slattery

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
592 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Over on the northwest coast, you've got an airport.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Hania, again, direct flights three times a week.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

until the end of October.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

And you've got these gorgeous kind of Venetian style towns.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Hanni is quite a big town, a fabulous harbour, lots of gorgeous kind of side streets with shops and bars and restaurants.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

And you can do boat trips to Santorini from there.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

You've got amazing beaches, the best beaches in Crete.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

In fact, one of the best beaches in Europe, Elephante Beach or Pink Beach is located there.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

It's one of the top world's top 10 beaches, according to TripAdvisor.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

This

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

all these kind of tiny pink corals in the sand and it looks like it's pink.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

But lots of really kind of charming little Greek villages and towns, lovely five-star hotels, very much more upmarket and lots to see and do.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

And of course, we've got great beaches.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Also, the longest gorge in Europe is there, the Samaria Gorge.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

So for anybody who wants to do some hiking or just basically out and exploring Crete, you know, it's one of those places people don't think about, but actually it's a really, really lovely site.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

of the island.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Yeah it would yeah but if the flight you know the flights go right on until the end of October and because it's quite far south compared to maybe Corfu or some of the northern Greek islands it's actually the weather can be lovely September October so that's actually a really really nice time to visit.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Well, that's interesting.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

You probably know more about it than me then.

The Last Word with Matt Cooper
The Last Word On Travel: Off The Beaten Track In Europe's Hotspots

Tavira, yeah, it's the, as you know, it's the opposite side when you fly into Faro.