Here are some links to a handfull interesting places on Crete, and to some history.
Crete is a very large island, more than 300 km in lenght, and we recommend our guests to hire a car and look around.
You can use your holiday for many years here, just driving around and expore the island, with its beaches, mountains, cities and villages, buildings and historic sites !

http://www.west-crete.com/
Useful site with a very good description of Crete.

http://www.west-crete.com/map-maps-crete-greece.htm
Different maps.

http://www.alpha-omegaonline.com/weather_crete.htm
Climate and precipitation on Crete.

http://www.greeka.com/crete/crete-history.htm
Some history.

http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/public-gallery28.html
Samaria gorge, europes longest canyon!

http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/ferries.html#C
Ferries on the south coast

Weather in Chania (Souda airport) :

http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Vai-ha-18-en.jsp
The only palm forest in Europe, at Vai, east on Crete.

http://www.datehookup.com/content-the-legends-of-knossos.htm
Knossos, where the european culture was born.