Hotel Vrito Hersonissos

... pashas – have all left their mark on towns and villages throughout the island. We had opted against booking an organized tour and decided to team up with our new friends: FIU lecturer David Rifkind (who had given an amazing talk about Crete the previous evening), his wife Holly, Toronto realtor Bill Thom and his girlfriend Angela. It made for a group of six and our attempt to find a van that we could drive ourselves was difficult due to the fact ...

... 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 ...

... I was like umm whatever "whats UP"! then he SPANKED ME I turned to him and said do not EVER touch me then walked past and that was it they are being thrown out of the hostel tomorrow it's liek a small village here!

NOW I do not feel worried or threatened by him I feel yes a little freaked out but honestly it is more of a nussiance for me.

SOOOO the question is THIS do you give a little waver towards cultural differences because YES he is coming from a ...

ok so I have gone this long in my life and hear I am thinking how WONDERFUL life is sitting in the shade of a olive trea feet up on another chair reading an engaging book sipping on Ouzo and coke and then BAM sharp pain in ALMOST my arm pit! AGHHHHH I YELP a high pitch EEEE into the air jumping out of my seat slapping at myself profusly (thinking a nasty spider has copme along dropped on me bitten me and is now in my dress) but NO look into where the pain was (hard ...

... 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 :(