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E: 02/08 Win a luxury break in Crete worth £1,800 with Domes Aulus Elounda

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edited 3 August 2023 at 11:32AM in Game over
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/where-was-i

Where Was I?

The clue

My friend grows impatient. “Oh, for Pete’s sake!” He cries. “Can’t we go to the tasting now?”

Again I explain the importance of this ruin, set at the end of a causeway on a lake. “I don’t care whose palace this was,” he counters. “Or what islands they ruled. You can’t lord it over my schedule like this.”

All right, let’s try a hybrid tour instead. It’s a distillation of the best bits of both our wish lists. The first stop is on the south coast. It’s my treat: a memorial to a son of this island who later became a patriot of another country. Friend then gets his tasting in a production facility 630 yards east-southeast of the memorial.

I was hoping that would be enough. But he insists that I drive to a second facility a mile east-northeast of the first, followed by third nearly a mile further on. By now I’ve abandoned all hope of viewing the three mountains on the far side of a narrow sound — just like his taste in drinks, Friend’s sense of humour is earthy, and I dread to think what he’d say about them. So I take him instead to a ruined church, made magnificent by the ancient, richly carved cross in its graveyard and its medieval tombs.

I wonder if the latter belonged to the owners of the palace — it’s only 11 miles north-northwest of here. Friend shrugs. Then he hiccups. “You know what I wonder?” He says. “Where’s the nearest McDonald’s. I’m starving.”

“Pity I can’t send you there right now,” I tell him. “Because it’s 51 miles east of here.”

The questions

1. What’s the name of the first production facility?

2. What’s the name of the cross?

The prize

The winner and guest will spend three nights, all inclusive, in a Tropical Nest room at Domes Aulus Elounda in Crete. Set on a coast in the east of the Greek island, the adult-only, 183-bedroom resort overlooks the fortified island of Spinalonga and welcomes guests into a luxurious and relaxed world of Cretan hospitality.

Facilities include a private beach, two cliffside pools, a cinema and the signature Soma spa and gym. A dine-around meal plan allows guests to sample the resort’s full range of restaurants. For details of this new member of the Curio Collection by Hilton, see domesresorts.com.

The prize includes return Heraklion flights for the winner and guest to a total value of £500 and resort transfers in Crete. It must be taken between September 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, subject to availability and excluding public holidays. The hotel is closed between October 21, 2023 and April 30, 2024.

Answer the questions by the end of Wednesday, August 2. One entry per person. See here for the full competition terms and conditions from The Times & Sunday Times. Your information will be used in accordance with our privacy and cookie policy.


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