Remezzo Seafood, Rethymno

Today's long trip took us to the island of Spinalonga with it's interesting history both as a strategic fortification, built in the 16th century and occupied variously by Venetians, Turks and Ottoman, and when it became between 1903 and 1954 Europe's last leper colony.

Two of our party have read Victoria Hislop's celebrated historical novel 'The Island' and that was the motivation for the ~6 hour round trip, later unanimously agreed to be easily justified.

We broke our return journey at the old Venetian port of Rethymno. It turns out that Rethymno is substantially bigger than the old Venetian port, but the bit that qualifies is very pleasant. On the small attractive harbour side are a number of restaurants including Remezzo. The name is the same as our recently visited restaurant in Chania, but any link between the two remains undiscovered.

They made us very welcome, even to the extent of moving tables so that we would all keep warm as the evening progressed.

We started with an Avacado with prawns being shared by the distaff side, some bread and tzatziki, all followed by the recommended grilled sea bream and a prawn spaghetti.

The bream was served with grilled Greek vegetables and garnished with a lemon and olive oil sauce. It was delicious.

The compulsory dessert was mostly thick yoghurt, with some candied orange peel and honey. Just the right size, but there was no compulsory raki.

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