The Ch is pronounced as a hard H so the C is sometime omitted!
We are halfway through our 15 week stay in Paleo so last Tuesday we went for a break in Chania. We were armed with helpful directions from Pascale, Canadian Pete and Calyso Barry so we began with trips to out-of-town superstores various, with some success, but it was at least 39 C, so soon we repaired to the fab fish restaurant by the Nea Hora. They don't publicly hang out their octopus to tenderise as here -this is nearby!
We had a recommendation of a small Norwegian-owned hotel and that turned out to be very comfortable and cheap. In the evening we set off to find a Chinese restaurant for the much-missed duck, but with no hints on this we failed, Ruth twisted her knee and so we fought our way back round the Old Harbour (crowded and naff!), hobbled back to Nea Hora, had a beer in a very civilised little bar and went to bed with no supper!
Next day after Norwegian breafast we resumed the shopping quests but panicked at the sight of enormous queues at the few petrol stations that were open. We had little idea what was going on - just part of Crete affected as shown on national news - so we reluctantly decided not to waste diesel on trips round the city. Hence the lighting shop was never found! We did however get two sunbeds en route back (they just fitted into the car) and have a little stop in Kastelli-Kissamos, which is always nice! On return to Paleo we found we had missed two pretty good beach days. Later on the Living in Crete forum. (http://www.livingincrete.net) we discovered the story of the fuel protest (It lasted just those two days)