Hotel Hersonissos Maris

... 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 – Eva – 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’s first navy. The myths about the Minoans (Minotaur, labyrinth) were probably inventions of ...

... 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

Yes so Dave arrived and it has been a ridiculous whirlwind! Everyone loves him which I obviously KNEW was going to happen! We have been having a great time and GREAT weather!

Yesterday was a total write off for me I ended up sitting with Dave and Odetta AKA Bob till 8:30 in the morning partying and slept till 3 and that was it went back to bed again at midnight! my body is so SOAR today from all that ...

Soo here is the question... the big CULTURAL differnce. NOW does that mean you can USE it against your advantage or you can use it against naivety ??

So a new guy comes into the hostel. I walk to the bathroom toothbrush in hand (now remember the "bathroom has 4 sinks and surrounding it is 4 rooms with toilets and 4 rooms (small) with showers) so I am about to brush my teeth SHAKING from the night before because Davey showed up and we partied till 4 am. more to ...

... in two snaps he has his flight booked will be here on sat night!!!! WOOHOOOOO

SO everyone here is all really excited and very supportive "we can't WAIT to meet him!!!" as I ahve told many crazy Dave stories and they ahev all been creepin on my face book seeing him in what they thought was MY pink Pjs but after I explained NO they are his they obviously asked .. "is he gay" i laugh NOPE although sometiems he plays it! I told them about how I put my picture of ...

... and uglier! NOT the place you want to spend on the street. BUt there was ONE bus left to Rethymno! AWESOME! got on the bus slept the whole way! (only 1 hour)

BUT there were NO buses after that adn the bus station was closed! so grasbbed my stuff adn sat outside I knew there was a bus at 615 to Plakias so whatever decided to just camp out.

have you ever tried to camp out at a bust station?? I was a little nervous as I was ll by ...

... sought off on their own and we did run into them at the open market. It was quaint but we didn't have enough time to see the island. Samantha Brown mentioned on her travel show that the port town was nothing to write home about and she was correct. The beauty of the island according to her was on the other side. Someday we may get there but if we don't it won't be the end of the world.

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 :(