Evelyn Beach Hersonissos

... and we talked about architecture, the cruise, our lives and everything in between. Our destination was the Palace of Knossos, about 90 minutes away, and the route took us along a coastal road with spectacular views to the turquoise sea. We had one hour once we got to the site due to an early 3 pm closing. It is off season, after all. <br><br>Highlights<br><br>1. The Palace of Knossos is worth a visit, and in my case it was a second visit. I found ...

... 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 ...

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.

... flights) Where on earth would we find the patience to wait for 5 hours?? For comfort we recaived a £4.- voucher which we later spend on some lovely Marks &amp; Spencer's salads &amp; chocolate mouse =p. Although feeling rather stiff sitting on the wooden bench the time went quite fast while we where reading. (me Portraits by Cynthia Freeman, Eve 'Closer') and doing ...

... i want some new greek sandals!!! I am taking the over ngiht ferry to Athens on thursday arrivi9ng at 6 AM aghhhh I am going to ehad over to the hostel right away and leave my bag there I am so excited to walk down the streets I walked for 5 weeks and to smell the smells and to eat the food and to see if I recognize anyone!<br><br>I am getting so ridiculously excited to come home!!!! YAYYYY!!! I am ready now ...

... have a conversation with me at whatever time in the morning while I am hung as **** trying to brush my teeth in order to just go back to bed. so ok I will indulge him but then he gets a little creepy- "are you here alone?" I of course answer yeah! then think oh **** uhhh kind of alone?? I came by myself but am meeting up with friends from last year all the while brushing my teeth spitting as I speak the poor mirror has a fresh snow white look to it and he walks away ...

... 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 ...

... a copmplete idiot at 3 in the morning. YES this is what I went through the whole ngiht I think it added up to about 1 hour of sleep as I kept waking up WHATS THAT oh just a cat WHAT oh it's the waves from the ocean across the street Oh it's that weird ass car pulling in again I stare him down meanfully.<br><br>So I finally got on the bus got here and walked the way to the hostel sighing and smiling the whole way! it was surreal being back and knew ...

... subsided before we disembarked. Once in Nafplio, we had an easy time finding our accommodations which were up on a hill overlooking the old part of the city as well as the harbour. Up above us and about 50 yards behind is a Venetian fortress dating to about 1700. The city is very "European" -- it's how we pictured Greek and Italian villages. It has narrow streets, lots of balconies, and beautiful buildings painted many colours. Tomorrow we're off to Mycenae.