This is a truly beautiful self contained apartment/ house based in a small hillside Greek village. The village is very quiet and there are very few tourists here. It is traditional and a typical Greek village.
The photos from the house represent it well and the roof top terrace is just a wonderful private space to enjoy Ouzo/Retsina/Raki as the sun goes down. You sit in your deckchair, with a glass and drink and watch the landscape change before you . You can watch the most incredible sunsets every night as we did in September. It is also very quiet.
The apartment is beautifully clean and freshly painted/ decorated and the aircon is very effective meaning if you over heat on the roof top sun terrace you can quickly cool down inside.
Pantelis was brilliant, loads of friendly information and even organised some shopping for us as we arrived so late first night from the airport . We arrived to find food and wine placed in our fridge which we paid for on arrival. Maria also dropped by in the week to give us fruit during our stay!
They looked after us very well.
The local square provides a natural spring where you can fill your water bottles and drink fresh good water for free as do the locals.
The local ceramicist is worth a visit as we bought some gorgeous Raku fired pottery there from Nikos workshop.
We also ate regularly at the local taverna (Kathedon) , great food and brilliant views from the restaurant there.
Walk the Richtis Gorge and swim in the waterfall but wear appropriate clothing , footwear and take plenty of water as there aren’t any facilities. This is one of the best places we visited but it’s a challenging 7.5 mile walk (total including the beach) but most of it is in shade so you can still walk it in hot sun as we did . The waterfall is just incredible to swim in after a very hot walk!
We also recommend Mochlos for a beautiful local resort for fish restaurants, cocktails and sunset evenings, 10 minute drive but steep roads down.
We also recommend local car hire company ‘Freedom Travel’ based in Sitia. The communication and service from Nikitas was outstanding, he even collected us from the airport in our hire car so we didn’t have to drive that first night.
This is a special place with special people and amazing views. I am pretty sure we will return!