Bella Maris-Elegant Resort Hotel Hersonissos

... was the end of the holiday season in Crete so fewer travel options were available. We lucked out at the Hertz rental location, a short walk from the ship. They offered us two cars for the day at the price of a van. One was an Opel which Holly drove with passengers Bill, Angela and Sandra. I ended up with the sporty and tiny model, a Peugeot 107 (similar to a Mercedes Smart car) that was perfect for the narrow island roads. It was great to have David as a ...

... next day and caught a cab back in to Chania. We then caught the bus back to Heraklion (or Iraklio) and the fun of finding somewhere to stay for our second night on Crete began.<br><br>P!ssing down with rain, no cagoules, no money, hungry, nowhere to stay - it was pretty rubbish. Crete is a pretty ****** place as well. Lots of graffiti around and dog poo on the footpaths. But, we managed to get another credit card working and then found an internet cafe ...

... local sausages from Rethmyio rounded out our meal. After some false starts looking for the bus station, we had a hot slow bus trip out to Knossos, the vast Minoan palace excavated and somewhat Disnified by Arthur Evans in the 1900s. That palace dates from 1700-1400 BC and is a large structure of 1300 rooms. The palace is known for its frescoes, labyrinthian ways, Minoan columns, and frescoes. It also contains the earliest ...

... any discount for pensioners unless you're over 65), and we were greeted by a guide &#8211; Eva &#8211; she suggested that we would benefit from her services. She was right, without her knowledge and panache it could have been just another pile of rocks. It is a palace of the Minoan civilization that pre-dated the Greeks and ruled the Mediterranean with the world&#8217;s first navy. The myths about the Minoans (Minotaur, labyrinth) were probably inventions of ...

... My iPod decided it had enough and decided it didn't have aenough energy left =( me being rather annoyed since I had fully charged it that same night &lt;&lt; (btw I think we are just flying over Garda Lake in Italy!). Took a stroll outside and by the time we ate our salads and I looked on the information board it said that our flight/gate was closing! Now we looked about 12 ...

... a while but I am really ready and looking forward to it! Flying into Vancouver next wednesday then somehow getting over to Victoria where will meet dad, Lena and Karen then on friday mom is arriving! oh man it is going to be so much fun! then on sunday we are all flying home together! Which I think is really nice!<br><br>So thats about it have to get out in that sunshine to keep up my dark tan ;-)) Life is so hard!!!

... jump in and it takes your breath away. So creepy mc creepy comes with us and I go right away and buy dave and myself a beer (now the beers here are probably half a litre) BUT you can buy other things but we all felt like **** so why not a little hair of the dog- anyways you can go to the beach bar and you can grab a beach chair and just sit and relax but it is just rude if you don't get something to drink as you are there using the facilities. So Dave is his usual ...

... arrived! with YES YUMMY chocolate breasts! yes I know strange but seemingly perfect to our strange situation of people from last year and a new mistmatch of people from this year and previous years! OH and by the way the boobs were DELICIOUS!!!!! YUMMM!!! In the next few days Julia the crazy German pronounced YULIA will be arriving! and perhaps Marcus who last year showered me in rose petals while I was sleeping (not creepily might I ad!) SO almost the whole ...

... was the right decision for me! I got here and it was just after 7 chris the manager gives me a big hug LINDSEY! adn then says honerary shot! we have to do a shot of Raki at 720 in the morning! I almost lost it! then finally LOVE OF ALL LOVES a nice COLD??? Shower whatever a showers a shower! then a big Mythos beer! LIFE IS GOOD now if those bums don't wake up soon I am going to go and jump on each and everyone of their beds!<br><br>Happy to be here!<br><br>Linds

... had recieved a few licks of paint to disguise the true condition of it. It was a small room with 2 single beds and not much else. There was a toilet/shower room which measured about 3x3ft. There was also one small window which was too high off the ground for us to look out of and which had bars on the outside! We paid 300 Euros upfront for a month's rent, only to discover that other workers were paying the same for beach-front apartments with kitchen areas and pools ...