The municipality of Malia lies along the north central coast of Crete, the biggest and most southern island of Greece. It unfolds from the slopes of Mt. Selena with the mountain villages Krassi and Mohos, continues over the fertile plain with the coastal villages of Malia and Stalis to end at the shore of the incomparable Aegean Sea.

For minor aches and pains you can go – without a doctor’s prescription – straight to a pharmacy; more so than in other countries medicine is dispensed over the counter. Medicine also appears to be cheaper than in other countries.