Hotel Angelos Rethymnon

It was in my formative years, when I was first introduced to the term cretin, as my elder siblings were rather fond of calling me. They stand corrected, having arrived on Crete and surrounded by Cretans, they are far from the pejorative term of my past, instead, they are a proud, hospitable, fascinating and diverse people, much like my father an...

In fact, it's possibly my favorite place on the planet.

I'm currently listening to Skrillex's remix of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" on repeat while I write this, so sue me if my blog gets a little too awesome.

P.S. (I'm turning Post Scriptum into Pre Scriptum for this "P.S.") Coheed and Cambria just released the single from their ...

I had so much fun last night, and during this entire weekend in general. I know I spent way too much money, but it was worth it. It was great to get away from Athens and feel like I was really on vacation. Even though we've been here for over three weeks, only the first few days and this weekend have felt like a vacation.

Today is Cl...

After our extremely long day yesterday our bodies decided it would be a good idea to sleep in this morning. Although that wasn't the initial plan because we want to try and see/do as much as we can during our four days in Crete, sleeping until noon today was probably the right decision.

Our Hostel reminds me a lot of the feeling of b...

Before embarking upon our four day voyage to the magical land of Crete tonight, I decided to change things up a bit and completely shave my face for the first time in a solid 18 months. Not so surprisingly, the result is that I look like a child. I'm not quite sure why I decided to do it, but once I started I couldn't stop. I think curiosity was...

We woke up pretty late at about 10:00 but luckily there was no hangovers and breakfast and coffee was quickly underway. The sun was shining bright and it was a gorgeous day and we were moving pretty slow just enjoying the weather. We planned to pack up and ferry to Santorini but were a little scared by whether or not the ferries were running an...

This morning was rather disheartening as we awoke at 9:00 to cloud and a few spits of rain. Bringing our clothes in for fear of rain they were mostly dry anyway. Since we didn't really expect any sun today we decided to go do the Mili Gorge hike. We had wanted to an 18km gorge hike on the west side of the island but it was closed for the winter...

We awoke this morning to blue skies and blazing sun as the temperature had already reached 20C and it was only 9:00. We put the last of our laundry in to allow it the longest possible time in the sun to dry. In the end it took three loads but we washed everything we owned. We cooked up some oatmeal which we finally mastered and put on some coff...

Our first morning on Crete we woke up at about 10:00. It was pretty cloudy and only about 12C as we went about our morning routine of coffee and muck (what we dubbed oatmeal). The good news is we were able to find some brown sugar in Patra before we left and combined with Muesli and Special K we had finally mastered making edible oatmeal. I wou...

After a few island stops we ended up in the south of Greece in Crete. Thus far, aside from the Gyro carts, we were underwhelmed with the quality and taste of the food we ate both in Athens and Santorini. Shocked? We were too. It made us realize how spoiled we are in Portland.
We heard about a town called Matala on the south side of the isla...