La Luna Apartments Stalís

... to be more restricted than my previous visit 25 years earlier. Access is not allowed today in many of the rooms and areas I previously visited. The restored frescoes of dolphins, charging bulls and other scenes were still worth seeing again and one could not help but marvel at the ingenious and lavish nature of the ancient Minoan civilization. The most spectacular piece of palace architecture is the grand staircase, leading to domestic apartments. Here ...

... were looking up!

We found a decent looking place to stay in (Kastro Hotel) on hostelbookers.com and opted to wander around there to see if we could get it a bit cheaper than on the net. Unfortunately, the map on the net wasn't correct and we ended up doing bog laps around Heraklion for AGES in the rain with our backpacks looking for the damn place. Every time we asked someone where it was they pointed us in another direction. I mean, if you don't know ...

... 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 Ł2,- 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!!!

... how lucky am I to be Canadian where I am allowed to walk free and where I don't get harassed and where I don't have to ask for permission for anything. it's weird and freaky and good and bad all at the same time. I don't knwo what else to say it messes your ehad a little bit and makes you sad at the same time. And then you think wow maybe you take everything for granted you travel around europe by yourself having good and bad things happen but at least you have the choice.

... arrived! with YES YUMMY chocolate breasts! yes I know strange but seemingly perfect to our strange situation of people from last year and a new mistmatch of people from this year and previous years! OH and by the way the boobs were DELICIOUS!!!!! YUMMM!!! In the next few days Julia the crazy German pronounced YULIA will be arriving! and perhaps Marcus who last year showered me in rose petals while I was sleeping (not creepily might I ad!) SO almost the whole ...

... 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 :(