From Chania to Paleochora

From Chania we took the bus over the hills to Paleochora on the southcoast. The aim was to walk through the national park Samaria Gorge.
The picture is from the entrance to the Samaria National Park; a rough scetch over the west of Crete written in two kinds of letters. The greek alphabet triggered many questions about signs and sounds during the trip...

One sound we would have liked to escape though was the meaowing of the hungry skinny cats in Rethymnon. But that as well seems to be an ancient one, judging from this sculpture of a cat with an empty bowl in the Heraklion archaeological museum. The cat sculpture was even accompanied by a small clay figurine holding the hands over the ears...