Hotel Niki Hersonissos

Our first view of Crete was of mountains rising in sheer walls from the sea as we approached this Mediterranean jewel (the most southerly of the Greek Islands) late on a Monday morning.(Nov 9). The sun was shining and the temperature was about 19 C so we were set for a glorious afternoon as we docked in the charming and animated port town of Aghios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas). Hilly, with narrow, steep streets that provide alluring sea views, the town was a ...

... 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!

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.

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 ...

We had decided to go to Knossos on our last full day (Friday) as it is close to Iraklio where Chris and Milly will fly from on Friday night. But it made sense to take the last day in a more leisurely fashion and visit the Minoan palace of Knossos on Thursday. So we did.

After a brisk drive through the usual nightmare traffic and narrow streets, and our usual lunch, this time just across the road from the palace, we entered the grounds. The entry fee is €6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... spanking my ass blowing a kiss on his ceiling over his bed and he refuses to take it down they were all laughing like WHAT NO and when girls say HEY I've seen you before I get to take the **** out fo them because I havent seen them and KNOW it's because they have been in his room! Some do NOT have the same sense of humor!!! Pitty for them!!!

SO it is as gorgeous here as ever took my breath away walking up to one rock (this FAR away beach) ok so I took a ...

... prepubesent scouts running around and yelling and if I could have just put my foot out a little bit mroe and tripped one of them MAN I would ahve been happy! ok I know bad bad but you ALL would ahev thought it!

So got on the plain FINALLY yesterday morning flew to Zadar (where I meta bunch of Canadians! WEIRD!!! one gave me weird meat and YES I ate it and tried it!! i am "worldly" now haha right) then flew to Vienna where I got a stamp YAYYYY ...

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 :(