Rethymno

Beach at Matala with 'psychadelic caves'
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We went to Matala beach before hitting Rethymno and spent 2 nights there. It used to be a big hippy hangout with caves where everyone did LSD. Mom..... were you a part of this?? haha. We hiked to a really secluded Red Beach (which was in fact a nude beach) and it was just gorgeous, we missed our bus to Rethymno though so we got stuck in Agia Gallini which was basically just overrun with tourist spots, not my favorite.

Rethymno is a big city so again it was sort of hard to adjust when we're used to our tiny little beach communities, but we ate lots of nice meals on the water front and explored the streets. Went out with some of the people from the hostel which was great, nice mix of ages and countries there! One of the women from Perth had rented a car and was heading to Plakias so we decided to hitch a ride with her, so we hopped in the tiniest car ever and set off!