One thing that could, just might be, interesting about travel and about hearing what is going on in another part of the world, is that small things can sound a little bit interesting.

After more years than anyone can remember harvesting olives, the road from Souda to the Chania airport turn has been resurfaced.

How boring! Well not so. Not for the many who have visited or tried to leave Crete after a vacation, who will remember the off-road skills that were needed to stay On the road to or from the airport. The massive bumps and cracked craters seemed like a miniature map of the island’s very mountains. How all those rented cars stayed bolted together after this massive auto-vibro-massage of a road, is hard to understand.

So we toast and welcome the new two lane blacktop, the new smooth velvet-surfaced road and hope that other signs sane signs of progress will appear and will show a new consciousness about welcoming visitors to the fabled island.

At last getting to and from Chania’s airport is a reality that no longer bears comment, and a tired bumpy and disgraceful “myth” is buried forever. Buried under the new surface, the surface of the future!

24 hour operation capability and permitting for Chania airport (CHQ), will pave the way for an increase in flights from many European centres.

Demand is continually growing for access to Chania and the West areas of Crete.

(So do please “come on in EasyJet……Roll on down Ryanair!” – we would welcome your serious consideration. Why not add Chania to your route network….better get there soon, before I start my own new airline . . . ).