Paradice Hotel Chania

... irresistible to leave and we spent all day on the beach, or in the water, lunching at a hill top café looking out over the small cove surrounded by cliffs that forms Matala. The cliffs have natural caves which people climb up to and leap from into the water. Matala beach has plenty of cafes and shops to rehydrate on beer, wine, water or gelati. It was another hot day, and did not cool down till late afternoon as we were leaving. There ...

... person per day that would have been a lot for an unknown, and would stop us from trying the local cuisine.<br><br>The apartment has most of the usual facilities, and the toilet is the usual Greek affair &#8211; don&#8217;t flush the toilet paper, which is guaranteed to affect the bowel habits of any delicate western person used to flushing with abandon.<br><br>We wandered around the local area till we found a genuine supermarket &#8211 ...

... Greek buses-my neck actually kept whipping up as I slept on a later bus to Heraklion. Needless to say, I will not miss Greek public transportation). Once we got to the top of the mountain, we got out of the bus only to be assailed by a lot of unpleasant wind. Some ***** who we dubbed the Last of the Samarians kept making us move to the back of the line because Courtney hadn't put her sneakers on yet. Then we were finally off on the part of the Greece trip ...

... stores with an underwhelming waterfront. We were glad in a way that we had gone though, if only to affirm that Chania was the best city to stay in. We got back to Chania for another late dinner -people eat so freaking late in Europe...I even saw a woman in sequinned booty shorts pushing a baby carriage around 11pm. Anyway, we went to bed early, but still dead tired, to get up for the 7:30am bus to Samaria Gorge.<br>

... 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!!!

... jump in and it takes your breath away. So creepy mc creepy comes with us and I go right away and buy dave and myself a beer (now the beers here are probably half a litre) BUT you can buy other things but we all felt like **** so why not a little hair of the dog- anyways you can go to the beach bar and you can grab a beach chair and just sit and relax but it is just rude if you don't get something to drink as you are there using the facilities. So Dave is his usual ...

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 ...

... are sitting on a terrace sipping fresh orange juice, enjoying baklava and listening to Grecian radio. Nex t week we will try to take a ferr to Italy so whish us good luck! I hope you are well and not becoming too jealous *g*<br><br>~*~<br><br>SMS from mum<br><br>- Liesel are you wlaking through the (Samarian) Gorge now? At the end you can take a boat. Love mama<br><br><br>

... sitting here :o) It took quite a feet to get here though. I Malame we had to wait at leats an hour for our bus. Every busdriver that passed in a bus said "the next bus!" We wondered if we ust imagined reading about the bus to Kastelli. We wlaked to the next bus station when - finally- a helpful man from the bus told us it wouldn't be here for another 20 minutes. <br>

... place and providing a lot of potential for future growth. Deciding to make the most of it I set off to explore further and soon enough found a great little Naval Museum on the western foreshore. The ground floor provides a fascinating overview of ancient naval history throughout the Mediterranean; dozens of intricate scale models of vessels from ...