Montserrat's place was very idyllic! The view during the day was incredible and the vantage of the star-filled night sky was amazing!
The place is charming, quaint and very comfortable. What made it perfect for me is that it had black-out shutters as I am sensitive to light when I sleep. The living room and kitchen were great and had everything we needed. I would definitely stay there again if I ever go back to Crete.
We didn't get to meet Montserrat as she was out of town but she was very responsive to all the messages and extremely helpful too on so many matters like where to rent a car. Her friend Giorgos helped us coordinate the arrangements and he was fantastic and very helpful as well. In addition to Greek, he also speaks English and German. He offered to pick us up from Heraklion but we had already rented a car. It was still very sweet.
We drove from Heraklion to Archanes to meet Giorgos and we did get a little lost since there was no real street name to plug into "GPS" and the system had some Greek terms even though the setting was in English. So anyone meeting Giorgos in Archanes itself please type"Epano Archanes" into the GPS :)
Giorgos gave us a tour of Archanes, the closest village "big" to the apartment. He went with us to the supermarkets and showed us the places where we could eat. He really went out of his way and we were very grateful.
Thank you so much, Montserrat and Giorgos!