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 Route from Iraklion airport to the butcher's shop
Route from Hania airport to the butcher's shop
Route from the butcher's shop to the Great Escape Villas
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Route from Iraklion airport to the butcher's shop
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You leave the airport range (1) towards South and the highway. Before the highway bridge, turn right and take the highway to Rethymnon (2) (the sign points to "Iraklion").
A bare hour later you will arrive to the Cape of Scaleta. The highway cuts through the cape's summit in a leftward bend, and the rocks on both sides form a gate (3).
Immediately afterwards opens on the right hand side the view down to the bay of Rethymnon with it's hotel suburbs and the 15 kms distant city with it's port and the fortress (4).
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Continue on the motorway until you find a solitary AVIN gas station (5) on the left side: From here, it is the next junction.
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A short way after the AVIN gas station (1) the junction to Platanias and Arkadi (2) opens, first on the left and then on the right hand side.
Leave the motorway and then turn left around a blunt bend, to enter the Old National Road.
Immediately afterwards turn left opposite to a BP gas station and follow the sign (3) to the LIDL supermarket. After underpassing the motorway follow the road leftwards and uphill (4).
As soon as you see a butcher's shop ("Kreopoleio") (x) on the left hand side, activate the trip counter and set it to zero.
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Route from Hania airport to the butcher's shop
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You leave the airport range (1), pass the gas station and after approx. 300 meters turn left. After another 1,700 meters turn right and on the road to Hania pass the villages of Aroni (2) and Pithari (3).
By the exit of Pithari, the road ascends and then forks. Here you leave the road to Hania and take the left branch to Souda and Rethymnon.
After a short way the view opens down to the bay. The road winds down the slope and finally arrives few meters above sea level.
You enter Souda and continue to the traffic lights (4). Here you first turn right, and after a short distance turn left to enter the wide road to the highway.
After crossing under the highway, turn left (5) and enter the highway in the direction of Rethymnon. The highway then changes into a two-lane motorway leading you to the suburbs of Rethymnon (6).
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From here, the highway has four lanes and after an underpass ascends to surround the city of Rethymnon in a wide curve. Down on the left you can see the town, the port, and the fortress (7). Finally the highway descends again, and short before a junction becomes two-laned (8).
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After that junction (1) the motorway runs mostly flat and passes some bridges. In this area it is framed by crash barriers (2). Just behind that part, the junction to Arkadi and Platanias opens first on the left and then on the right side of the motorway.
Drive slowly - it has a hairpin bend and ascends steeply for some meters, and from all sides other vehicles may come all of them having right of way.
The ascent runs into the road from Rethymnon to Arkadi. Turn left in direction of Arkadi.
Immediately afterwards you will see a butcher's shop ("Kreopoleio") (x) on the left hand side: Now activate the trip counter and set it to zero.
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Route from the butcher's shop to the Great Escape Villas
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After you have set the trip counter to zero, do not touch it anymore! Just watch it!
All data on distances and kilometers hereafter refer to the butcher's shop ("Kreopoleio") as the zero point.
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No follow the road to Arkadi. At 1.5 kms from the zero point you will find an EKO gas station on the right hand side. The next building is a car wash, and then follows a dwelling house.
Turn right and continue downhill for some meters, just along the fence of the neighbouring property.
By the lowest point starts a road which has been newly asphalted in autumn, 2009. It runs first uphill till 1.9 kms from the zero point.
Turn left there, and continue on the new road around some bends and mostly ascending.
At 2.8 kms from the zero point you will find the entrance gate to the villas' property on the right hand side.
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