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Lost luggage

What really matters on any walking trip are your boots and socks – always travel with them, or wear them on the plane. If you have to replace lost equipment, Chania and Heraklion have ‘outdoor’ shops but choices will be limited.

Getting to the trailhead

Public transport

KTEL (referred to in Crete as ‘K’tel’), the Greek Public Bus Association, operates an extensive network nationwide. The KTEL livery is cream and turquoise. New buses in the fleet display a variety of cream and turquoise styles, together with advertisements for ANEK or MINOAN ferryboat lines. Learn to recognise them if you can because there are lots of ‘touristico’ private tour buses that look similar from a distance.

Town bus stations have information kiosks and English is widely spoken. Latest timetable sheets (the schedule can change weekly) are available in the tourist season, and timetable monitors list departures in Greek and English. Departures are also announced in Greek and English, together with the bus number: for example ‘Heraklion – bus no. 78’. Left luggage stores are rather informally run, so do not leave obvious ‘valuables’. Opening hours are likely to be 0700–2000, but check. Note that staff may lock up for a few minutes at a time when they are out loading goods onto buses; unaccompanied parcel consignment is a KTEL service. You can only do this – for example with camping food supplies – if you arrange for someone (such as a well-known local) to meet the bus at the other end and collect it – and assure the staff that this is going to happen.