Hotel Annirin Hersonissos

... to the ship.

5. I made it back to the ship with only moments to spare. I was the last to board and I was conscious that the captain waits for no one. Shortly after 8 we were sailing again and we could see the twinkling lights of Crete disappear as we dined by a window at the stern. Sandra had lamb and I had beef tournedo. Sumptuous. And relaxing as we looked forward to the next day at sea followed by our next destination: the tiny island of Malta.

... no supermarkets, no shops, nada! By this stage we were starving as well, so the kind man who ran the hotel took pity on us and loaned us his car to take into the "nearby" village.... which was pretty much deserted. Sigh. We bought a loaf of bread, a tomato, some cheese and some ham, which was to be our dinner, and then our breakfast and lunch for the next day.

We decided one night in solitude was more than enough for both of us so packed up our gear ...

... of a water flushing toilet.

Today we will wander around the old city with trips to the open air market and the archeological museum.

The ferry and airplane rides seem to affect my (Nancy's) inner ear in a way that on land, everything continues to move. It is annoying and made hiking up and down rocky hillsides a little extra challenging. Hopefully it will quiet down now that there are nop more ferry rides.

... was magic but the cocktails were dreadful. Kevin’s martini had ouzo in it but the barman refused to do another. Chris’ margharita seemed to be alcohol free and Milly’s Manhattan didn’t taste very good. So we moved to Axos for more drinks – 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.

... ago whemn it said it was still delayed! So we rushed towards our gate (of course first through security) and me making some impressive acrobatic moves trying not to fall with my slippery flipflops on the marble stones. But we made it and are now on our way to Crete! I think that's all for now. Oh I just spend £2,- on a cup of tea! How expensive can it be?!

Holly

... 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!

So thats about it have to get out in that sunshine to keep up my dark tan ;-)) Life is so hard!!!

... felt safer?? SO one time I couldn't wait to many beers with the boys so went down to the bathroom and after I heard a humming form someone and KNEW it was that guy so waited for a bit in the bathroom then realized this is ridiculous it's the middle of the day all my friends are upstairs (the bathroom you have to walk past the pool down stairs) so walk out well there is Pakistan freakily waitng I walk past (now let me remind you I am in my bikini) and he goes hey ...

... is back together! And how GREAT it is like no time has elapsed! HAVE been meeting some great "new people" and loving it! Dave called em the other night (the love of my life plutonic brother/housemate from ireland) I just happened (weirdly actually as I never have it on me) my cell! it started ringing during dinner look down DAVE!!! Jump out of my seat storm triumphantly out of the restaraunt and say whats up dick! (yes my name is usually dick but when I can I call ...

... stationn which didn't even GO to the bus station dropped me off on this dark road and poiunted for me to walk down this even darker alley... WHAT! haha well what could I di! jumped off adn walked with my luggage clenching my fist thinking allright I can take ANYONE on (which is a TOTAL lie I would be stabbed and robbed before I knew what hit me!) So got to the bus station JUST as they were closing up GREEAT stuck in ****** Heraklion! like Athens but ...

Through a series of unfortunate events, this is the sole remaining picture of our magical day in Crete. In all of my genius I deleted the Crete and Turkey photos by accident and boy was that ever a sad day. Of course the first thing I did after getting home from the cruise was upload the Sbux series to Facebook, so now the Starbucks photo is the only one left of Crete :(