Agios Nikolaos

We visited a small Cretan town on the way to Agios Nikolaos and I learned quickly the Cretan people do not like their picture taken. I was talking with Artemis about this and she believes this is still because of the distrust of the communist times. I did manage to get a few photos of the small village and also of a man making shoes. We discussed later that people rarely leave these villages; inhabitants live there their whole lives unless they want to travel to Athens to go to school.





Agios Nikolaos, a beautiful seaside city, means Saint Nicholas, who is the patron saint of sailors and of all of Greece. Instead of visiting the beach I sat by the Lake Voulismeni, a former sweet water lake, which is now connected to the sea. The lake connects to the harbor of the town by a channel dug in 1870. According to Greek legend, the goddess Athena bathed in it.