The honest guide to easy touring in Crete: six manageable day drives from Chania and Heraklion, graded from gentle to mountain, with cars from around £15 a day.
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The gentlest drive in western Crete: from Chania east to Georgioupoli, the freshwater Lake Kournas, the springs of Argyroupoli and the Venetian old town of Rethymno.
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Drive from Chania into the White Mountains to the Omalos plateau and the head of the Samaria Gorge. The honest guide to the finest mountain road in Crete, with map and downloads.
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Drive the Akrotiri peninsula from Chania: the Venetian old town, the monasteries of Agia Triada and Gouverneto, the Souda Bay War Cemetery and the beach where Zorba danced.
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Drive south from Heraklion across the Messara Plain to Gortyna, Phaistos, Agia Triada and the hippie beach caves of Matala. Full self-drive guide with map and downloads.
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Drive from Heraklion around the Gulf of Mirabello to Elounda and Plaka, then take the short local boat to the island fortress of Spinalonga. Full self-drive guide.
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Drive from Heraklion to the Palace of Knossos and up to the Lasithi Plateau, a high mountain plain of windmills and the cave where Zeus was born. Full self-drive guide.
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Brittany is one of the easiest and most rewarding places in France to explore by car, and this easy touring in Brittany guide is here to show you how. Forget the idea that a driving holiday has to mean long, tiring days and white-knuckle motorways. Brittany’s roads are toll-free, generally quiet and beautifully maintained, the
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The Carnac scenic drive takes you into the deep past of Brittany and out to one of its wildest coasts. Carnac is home to the greatest concentration of standing stones anywhere on Earth, more than 3,000 menhirs raised in long, mysterious rows some 7,000 years ago, older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt. Around
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The Gulf of Morbihan scenic drive is Southern Brittany at its gentlest and most beguiling. Mor Bihan means the little sea in Breton, and that is exactly what this is: a near-enclosed inland sea some 20 kilometres across, dotted with dozens of islands and ringed by oyster beds, medieval towns, prehistoric megaliths and a soft,
