Palatia Village 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 ...

... next day and caught a cab back in to Chania. We then caught the bus back to Heraklion (or Iraklio) and the fun of finding somewhere to stay for our second night on Crete began.<br><br>P!ssing down with rain, no cagoules, no money, hungry, nowhere to stay - it was pretty rubbish. Crete is a pretty ****** place as well. Lots of graffiti around and dog poo on the footpaths. But, we managed to get another credit card working and then found an internet cafe ...

... of a water flushing toilet.<br><br>Today we will wander around the old city with trips to the open air market and the archeological museum. <br><br>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&#8217;s martini had ouzo in it but the barman refused to do another. Chris&#8217; margharita seemed to be alcohol free and Milly&#8217;s Manhattan didn&#8217;t taste very good. So we moved to Axos for more drinks &#8211; 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.

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 ...

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

... me thinking WIERDOOOOO- oh and yes he invited me to come to the beach with him- yeah thanks NOPE!<br><br>SO I fake going back to bed fake is me trying to fake myself back into sleeping I was pretending to sleep in order for my body to think I was and actually FALL asleep but nope just daydreamed about my terrible new book where this murderer is being called the new jesus and is trying to donate his heart to the daughter of the family he murdered- messed yes! so get ...

... 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!!!<br><br>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 ...

... a copmplete idiot at 3 in the morning. YES this is what I went through the whole ngiht I think it added up to about 1 hour of sleep as I kept waking up WHATS THAT oh just a cat WHAT oh it's the waves from the ocean across the street Oh it's that weird ass car pulling in again I stare him down meanfully.<br><br>So I finally got on the bus got here and walked the way to the hostel sighing and smiling the whole way! it was surreal being back and knew ...

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 :(