Chrissi Amoudia Hersonissos

... to be more restricted than my previous visit 25 years earlier. Access is not allowed today in many of the rooms and areas I previously visited. The restored frescoes of dolphins, charging bulls and other scenes were still worth seeing again and one could not help but marvel at the ingenious and lavish nature of the ancient Minoan civilization. The most spectacular piece of palace architecture is the grand staircase, leading to domestic apartments. Here ...

... just say! Don't just point in any ******n direction and send people on a wild goose chase! Breathe... Luckily, it just so happened that after we had a bite to eat and set off on the search again we found the hotel! Geez! Bout time! <br><br>So we pretty much stayed the night then flew out the next morning - that part was really good! Except for when we were in ****** Iraklio airport and all the power went out. Nobody so much as batted an eyelid. Typical.<br><br>

Yesterday we got up at 5am in order to catch our plane from Santorini. Most of our group was on the same plane , so we said our sleepy good byes. We flew on Aegean Air which has nice new planes. We went to Athens and then basically retraced the short flight by flying to Crete. We staggered into hotel Lato at 10am where we received a special bonus upgrade to the 5th floor executive suite. 2 rooms on the 5th floor with an ...

... was magic but the cocktails were dreadful. Kevin&#8217;s martini had ouzo in it but the barman refused to do another. Chris&#8217; margharita seemed to be alcohol free and Milly&#8217;s Manhattan didn&#8217;t taste very good. So we moved to Axos for more drinks &#8211; this time excellent, and then to our favourite eating place, Yannis, for dinner. The drinks and food there were superb too and they gave us free cheese pies and raki (as if we needed more booze). Nice.

We had a delay. Got up around 3:45 am and left Rose Cottage at 4 O'Clock for the airport. It was already starting to get lioght as we cruised by sleeping English villages. By the time we arrived at the airport it was fully light. Stood in a lond que(sp?) for check-in where we were told that our plane was delayed adnd that would we would hear further news at 10 am! (the joy of ...

... and doing nothing!<br><br>I can't believe I only have 2 ngihts left here! The time is coming so fast!!!! Dave is thinking about staying another week! ahha this place it is just like the Hotel California song you can check out but you can never leave! He is already planning on coming back next August and was devising a plan so that I could meet him here for 2 weeks haha! I am excited to go back to Athens and go ...

... do you ahev a boyfriend- I said maybe?? haha ok so during this time Dave was joking well what about the baby (ok for those of you who do not have a sense of humor or do not believe in abortion discontinue reading!) so I said well I am not sure what to do (by the way NOT pregnant just having a really sick sick conversation/joke/ freaking people out...) I said maybe the old fashion way the punch in the stomach he suggested the coat hanger.. just carrying on and on and I ...

... on it before he can call me!@) he says HEY hows it goign I said GREAT hows it goingyourself ... I'M BORED where are you! I said Crete havinga BLAST why don't you come! he goes OK! I started laughing ummm ok? ok? OK!!!! AWESOME! let me just make sure there isroom for you! NOPE no room so not the next day but the day after I almost threw myself on the ground PLEADING with Chris the hostel manager/owner PLEASSSEEEEEEE ok.. we will amke it work he says. call davey ...

... last eyar after 2.5 months of loneliness. there is a big reunion! a few of the people are already here some others are showing up later I wasnt supposed to eb here till the 14th but after the little camping mishap I wa sliek I am out of here and you knwo screw it I SHOULD ahve saw more countries but I KNEW in my heart I would be having the time of my life 16 days with amazing people that I relaly love cause they showed me so much warmth and kindness ...

... and was more or less one long street packed with tacky souvenir shops, 1.50 Euro shops (similar to British 99p shops), fast food joints, souvlaki shops, pastry shops, bars and nightclubs. It was over-built and over-crowded - no inch of the street was spared. Willing to give it a go, I started work at the bar the following night. The bar itself was cute and in a nice location on a rock overlooking the beach at the end of the main street. This, however, turned out to be a bit of a ...