Unpacked: Rambling Aboard the Ancient Aircraft Carrier Named Crete
Winding roads, Venetian walls, and cliff-top monasteries with a sense of history.

HERAKLION — There are no hotels at Tymbaki, a place renowned for nothing, though a well-known guidebook series calls it the ugliest town in Crete. It’s a place where watermelons grow like weeds and one that, for the foregoing reasons and others, I find almost impossible to resist in the heat of summer.
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